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Jutte, Lisa S. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2011
Context: While sports medicine study abroad opportunities have recently increased, the literature regarding their development is non-existent in athletic training education literature and very limited in general education literature. Objective: The purpose of this manuscript is to draw upon my experience to describe the essential design elements…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Athletics, Physical Fitness, Sports Medicine
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Alfrey, Laura; Gard, Michael – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
Despite extensive critique, the teaching of Health and Physical Education (HPE) continues to be characterised by individualised and performative ideologies which are reflected in part by a continued focus upon fitness testing. There has been little attempt, however, to explore Australian HPE teachers' thoughts and reasoning for its privileged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Health Education
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O'Connor, Justen; Alfrey, Laura – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
The health and physical education (HPE) profession needs to find alternatives to its individualistic and performative focus if it is to remain relevant and meaningful for all learners. This paper presents a way of framing HPE that helps to shift the focus from the individual as autonomous decision-maker, and goes beyond sport and fitness testing…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Athletics, Physical Fitness
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Eather, Narelle; Morgan, Philip J.; Lubans, David R. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a school-based physical fitness intervention (Fit4Fun) on the physical fitness and physical activity (PA) levels of primary school children. Methods: A group-randomized controlled trial with a 3-month wait-list control group was conducted in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Physical Fitness, Elementary School Students
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Spittle, Michael; Petering, Felicity; Kremer, Peter; Spittle, Sharna – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Stereotypes and self-perceptions are important in understanding how people develop their self-knowledge and social identity, become members of groups, and view groups and their members. While we have some understanding of the stereotypical view of the physical education teacher, we currently have little knowledge of how physical education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Attitudes
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Lee, Jessica; Macdonald, Doune – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
This paper makes use of critical discourse analysis and Bourdieu's theoretical framework to explore rural young women's meanings of health and fitness and how the healthism discourse is perpetuated through their experiences in school physical education (PE). The young women's own meanings are explored alongside interview data from their school PE…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Physical Activities, Health Promotion
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Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – European Physical Education Review, 2008
The obesity crisis is a hegemonic discourse that has established common-sense understandings that young people are less active and fit than previous generations. Unquestioning acceptance of links between fitness and obesity in turn leads to unproblematic fitness testing of young people. Argument is made that fitness tests motivate and encourage…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Health, Testing, Obesity
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Macdonald, Doune; Hunter, Lisa; Tinning, Richard – Australian Journal of Education, 2007
Within Education Queensland's recent "new basics" curriculum initiative, Education Queensland developed 20 transdisciplinary learning and assessment tasks for Years 1 to 9, called "rich tasks". This paper critiques two of the rich tasks that were most closely aligned to knowledge and skills within the health and physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Morgan, Philip J.; Hansen, Vibeke – Health Education Journal, 2008
Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine the perceptions of classroom teachers regarding the benefits and outcomes of their PE programs. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Thirty eight randomly selected primary schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Method: A mixed-mode methodology was utilized, incorporating semi-structured…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Webb, Louisa; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Ohman, Marie – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
In physical education, bodies are not only moved but made. There are perceived expectations for bodies in physical education to be "healthy bodies"--for teachers to be "appropriate" physical, fit, healthy and skillful "role models" and for students to display a slim body that is equated with fitness and health. In…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Role Models, Child Health, Foreign Countries
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Ageing International, 1990
Programs for Pleasure, sponsored by the New South Wales (Australia) Department of Health, consists of a variety of activities that encourage physical fitness, mental stimulation, and social interaction for older people. Offerings include aquafitness, walking, gentle exercise, and a subsidized residential program of recreational activities in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Older Adults, Physical Fitness
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Hamill, Joseph; Haymes, Emily M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to review the biomechanics and exercise physiology studies published in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) over the past 75 years. Studies in biomechanics, a relatively new subdiscipline that evolved from kinesiology, first appeared in the journal about 40 years ago. Exercise physiology studies have…
Descriptors: Athletics, Literature Reviews, Biomechanics, Exercise Physiology
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Siedentop, Daryl; Siedentop, Bobbie – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1985
The Daily Physical Education Program was designed to incorporate fitness activities and skill development into the regular school curriculum in Australia. This program has produced measurable results in fitness, skill, and social development without affecting academic performance. (DF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Meir, Rudi; Newton, Robert; Curtis, Edgar; Fardell, Matthew; Butler, Benjamin – Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2001
Australian and English professional rugby players completed various physical fitness performance tests to determine differences when grouping players into three different rugby positional categories. Results found minimal differences in test scores on the basis of players' specific positions on a team, however, when players were grouped according…
Descriptors: Aerobics, Athletes, Body Weight, Classification
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Okely, Anthony D.; Booth, Michael L.; Chey, Tien – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine associations of fundamental movement skills (FMS) with measures of body composition. among children and adolescents. Secondary analyses of cross-sectional data collected from 4,363 children and adolescents in Grades 4, 6, 8, and 10 as part of the 1997 New South Wales Schools Fitness and Physical Activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Weight, Physical Activities, Body Composition
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