Introduction / John Evans and Brian Davies -- Growing old gracefully? / Patricia J. Sikes -- Promotion and the physical education teacher / Robert G. Burgess -- Settling down / Thomas J. Templin, with Kevin Bruce and Linda Hart -- Patriarchy and ethnicity / Bruce Carrington and Trevor Williams -- Competition, cooperation, and control / Oliver Leaman -- Physical education, competition, and control in primary education / Andrew Pollard -- Changing the face of physical education / John Evans and Gill Clarke -- The limits of change in physical education / Lisa George and David Kirk -- The micropolitics of innovation in the physical education curriculum / Andrew C. Sparkes -- Control and responsibility in outdoor education / Anthony Rosie.