ABSTRACT
This chapter presents primary physical education as an educational endeavour that functions concurrently at three inter-related levels: as a subject area in its own right, integrating across the primary school curriculum and also acting as a catalyst for children's engagement in a physically active life beyond the school gates. Consequently, given the multiple interpretations of primary physical education currently 'doing the rounds', it will be argued that this layered educational aspiration is critical to the subject's future because it seeks to position primary physical education as a key part of the world of education while concurrently developing connections and partnerships with health, sport and other arenas. The chapter shows how three key ecological factors such as, the primary physical education curriculum and its related pedagogy, teachers' primary physical education professional learning and the stakeholders influencing primary physical education, act to frame this educational agenda for primary physical education.
