Contents: Preface. 1. Nature and purposes of physical education. 2. Development of physical education: past present and future. 3. Policy and physical education. 4. Test measurements and evolution in physical education. 5. Adapted physical education. 6. Ethnicity and physical education. 7. Extra-curricular physical education. 8. Gender and physical education. 9. Health and physical education. 10. Social class and physical education. 11. Teaching physical education. 12. The state of physical education. 13. Youth sport and physical education. 14. Sociological characte-ristics of physical education.
