The book provides an insight into the current situation of PE in schools across Europe as a forerunner to addressing PE-related existing and emerging issues in various contexts. It is aimed, primarily, at students pursuing entire programmes or discrete courses and modules in the broad area of PE and related areas such as health and exercise science.

Auteur
Ken Hardman holds a Visiting Professorship in the Institute of Sport & Exercise Science at the University of Worcester, UK. He is a former President of the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport, an Honorary Member of the International Committee for Sport Science and the Physical Education Executive Committee and is a Fellow of the National Association for Physical Education, UK, the Royal Society of Arts, and International Fellow of the European Academy of Kinanthropology and Physical Education. Ken Green is Head of Department, Professor of Applied Sociology of Sport, Centre for Research in Sport and Society, University of Chester, UK, and Professor II in Physical Education at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway. He is also the Editor of the European Physical Education Review.