ICHPER•SD
honors the right of every child and adolescent to a standard of physical,
mental, spiritual, moral, and social development essential to engage
purposefully in life’s functions.† Further, ICHPER•SD
endorses entitlement of this right for every child and adolescent, without
regard to the individual’s status in life.
ICHPER•SD believes freedom can be realized only when one’s
rights have been enabled, and, unconditional freedom can be realized
only when conditions provide one the freedom to become his/her best.
ICHPER•SD acknowledges its role toward fulfilling of this right,
hence freedom, and accepts its responsibility, within bounds of its
purposes, to help enable conditions necessary for every child and
adolescent to become physically educated-a precondition to become
his/her best.
To these ends, ICHPER•SD will:
- assist national professional organizations, globally, to:
- develop advocacy strategies designed to reach groups such
as parents, government
officials, school administrators, education agencies, ministries of
education and/or
sport,
- promulgate quality physical education experiences for every
child and adolescent through adopting and promoting of the International
Standards for Physical Education and Sport for School Children,
- promulgate quality teaching through adopting and promoting
of its Global Standards for Professional Preparation of Physical Educators;
- develop strategies to assist national professional associations
to provide services to
individuals professional practitioners, government officials, school
administrators, leaders of
allied agencies, ministries of education and/or sport; and
- conduct and disseminate global, longitudinal research on
achievement of the
aforementioned right.
† UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund. September 2,
1990. Convention on the rights of the
child, Article 27.
ICHPER•SD November, 2000
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