Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : background to the policy game
  • 2. Policy matters
  • 3. Politics and policy : making a national curriculum for physical education
  • 4. Stopping the slippage and redirecting the play
  • 5. Controlling the mid-field? Local government in the policy process
  • 6. Policy in practice
  • 7. Power in the policy game
  • 8. Politics, policy and progress in physical education.