ABSTRACT
Chapter 1: Teaching Physical Education creatively
In this chapter, we introduce the book and suggest that teaching is itself a creative act and learning is a creative activity as a process of exploration, discovery, problem solving and practice. We advocate that transformative, creative processes can be harnessed by every teacher and every learner within Physical Education. We define and discuss what constitutes Physical Education and creativity. We explore creative teaching, teaching for creativity in Physical Education and the creative potential of the body. We suggest that through the provision of rich learning experiences where children are learning to move and moving to learn, they can progress to become autonomous learners who are physically literate (Whitehead, 2001, 2019) demonstrating attributes across the affective domain, the physical domain and cognitive domain (Whitehead, 2019). Finally, we introduce core principles that underpin teaching and learning to develop creative bodies using POWER as an acronym as:
