An overview is presented of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework (PPCF), designed initially as a conceptual framework for physical education curricular decision making. Information is provided on the development, evaluation, and professional context of the PPCF. (CB)

The article reports on LaPlante's research (1973) on evaluation of the purpose dimension of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework, which established a set of criteria for evaluating the framework and demonstrated that the Delphi technique is appropriate for study of physical education curriculum. (CB)

In preparing a physical education curriculum, the nature of the future world should be an important consideration. The state of physical education and of the society in the year 2000 is predicted. (JN)

The nature of education needed in the future is discussed with particular reference to those in the physical and health education fields. Anticipating great social change in the course of the next two decades, the role of the physical education teacher is regarded as an expanding one. Three stages of development in curriculum for these teachers…

This monograph is a progress report on efforts to develop curriculum theory for physical education. It focuses on the development of individual human motor performance and the utilization of selected movement learning media to achieve specified educational outcomes in relational perception and orientation in space. Concerned essentially with the…