Introduction to Sport, Fitness, and Physical Education will help you broaden your perspectives and test your opinions about the various issues raised in the text. This text is meant to emphasize quality services by physical-activity professionals-physical-education teachers, coaches, fitness trainers, athletic trainers, athletic administrators, and the like-both by emphasizing professionalism in developing and sustaining good programs and by activism to ensure that programs become more widely available to those who need them. The various sections of the text provide you with up-to-date information about the status of the physical-activity professions, the kinds of programs offered to various groups, the educational path to service in the those professions, and the significant problems that are current in the professional practice of the various areas. You will be encouraged to think critically, to recognize and confront problems in various fields, to weigh various alternatives to solving problems, and to respect divergent points of view. No single answer is presented as the only answer. The text does present points of view but only to stimulate your thinking and the further development of your own perspective.