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Blackshear, Tara B.; Barton, Andrea T.; Moxley, Jennifer – Quest, 2019
The debate on whether kinesiology students should undergo fitness testing is controversial. Some are strong proponents of fitness testing, while others are in strong opposition. As advocates for fitness testing among kinesiology majors, we aimed to assess the fitness levels of Exercise Science and Physical Education Teacher Education majors and…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Human Body, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Fitness
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Andrews, David L. – Quest, 2008
This article explicates the "inconvenient truth" that is at the core of the crisis currently facing the field of kinesiology. Namely, the instantiation of an epistemological hierarchy that privileges positivist over postpositivist, quantitative over qualitative, and predictive over interpretive ways of knowing. The discussion outlines…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Human Body, Sociology, Exercise Physiology