Non-School Programs
Each program we have described could take place as easily in a non-school setting. Situations similar to sport education occur in community youth-sport programs.
A movement class at a gymnastics academy would not necessarily differ from an educational-gymnastics class in a school physical-education program.
Outward Bound programs offer exactly the same kinds of activities and strive to achieve exactly the same goals as do the adventure-education models used in schools.
The YMCA Y-Winners program is a good example of a physical-education program in a nonschool setting. A number of activities are offered soccer, fitness, aquatics baseball, hockey and the goals of the program are virtually identical to those of a school program for example, social skills, self-esteem, physical skills, fitness, responsibility, and fun.
In addition to these goals, there is a strong family emphasis in the program, with parents taking part through a strategy called “the family huddle,” a formal, structured set of goals that emphasizes family involvement and participation.
Physical education, the, is defined by what takes place and what goals are being pursued, rather than by the setting in which it all occurs.
