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Perrin, David H. – Quest, 2007
Athletic training was spawned from physical education in the 1960s, and since that time has evolved into a recognized health care profession. The majority of accredited athletic training education programs (ATEPs) are housed within academic units of kinesiology. However, the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) has recommended that ATEPs…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Educational History, Exercise Physiology
Li, Weidong; Xiang, Ping – Quest, 2007
The construct of ability conceptions plays a critical role in children's motivation and achievement behaviors in education, including physical education. Valid and reliable measures of this construct are essential to advance our knowledge of children's ability conceptions and related cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes. From a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Psychometrics, Ability
McKenzie, Thomas L.; Sallis, James F.; Rosengard, Paul – Quest, 2009
School physical education plays an important role in public health. Nonetheless, there are few evidence-based, health-related, physical education programs and very little is known about how to disseminate them for widespread use. This article (a) presents background information and a review of the completed research on the SPARK (Sports, Play, and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Middle Schools, Private Sector, Public Health
McCaughtry, Nate; Tischler, Amy; Flory, Sara B. – Quest, 2008
The ecological paradigm has become a powerful framework for understanding how teachers and students negotiate the learning environment. This article articulates the ecological paradigm into a more cohesive framework and expands it using influential work from the sociology of physical education. First, we explain several core concepts of ecological…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Models, Ownership

Harrison, Joyce M. – Quest, 1987
Current research on teacher effectiveness is reviewed as it applies to physical education teachers. Eight teaching behaviors are explored from the perspective of physical education. Some problems in applying the research to actual school situations are presented. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Behavior
Lucas, John A. – Quest, 2006
It is nearly impossible for a meaningful professional organization to exist and function effectively unless most of its members know something of its heritage, its history. The American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE) is exactly three-quarters of a century old. It is imperative for its members--Fellows--to know something of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Exercise Physiology, History

Smeal, Georgia; And Others – Quest, 1994
Information from feminist physical educators helps examine relationships between theoretical debates in feminism and feminist practice in secondary schools. The article discusses debates over equality, how theoretical struggles between feminists are handled in sport and physical education, and how calls for equality are understood as calls for…
Descriptors: Athletics, Equal Education, Females, Feminism

Fraleigh, Warren P. – Quest, 1985
The author discusses performance versus theory, athletics versus physical education, and several other dichotomies in order to examine how they produce tension in the field of physical education, to state what is positive and negative about the tension, and to decide whether the tension is constructive or destructive. (MT)
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Educational Theories, Interprofessional Relationship, Liberal Arts

Segrave, Jeffrey O. – Quest, 1996
Examines the role of scholarship in physical education in liberal arts colleges, placing it in the context of Ernest Boyer's publication, "Scholarship Reconsidered." The paper highlights two ways in which the current status of scholarship in physical education is problematic and offers some general avenues for resolution. (SM)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Higher Education, Liberal Arts

Forker, Barbara E. – Quest, 1986
This paper describes changes in the concept of leadership during the last century, and then addresses the importance of fostering strong leadership. A plan to encourage integrated, farsighted leadership in the field of physical education is proposed. (MT)
Descriptors: Educational History, Leadership, Physical Education
Fernandez-Balboa, Juan-Miguel; Muros, Beatriz – Quest, 2006
In this paper, we introduce the concept of "the hegemonic triumvirate" (HT)--a powerful system of "reality" construction resulting from the interrelation of dominant ideologies, habitus, and discourses. Then, after analyzing HT's components and some of their interrelations within the contexts of sport and physical education (PE), we examine some…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Ideology, Teacher Educators, Athletics
Park, Roberta J. – Quest, 2006
Women attained leadership roles within the American Physical Education Association much earlier than in organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Physiological Society. Women also were members of the American Academy of Physical Education before its official founding in 1930. Archival records and responses by current…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Females, Professional Associations, Leadership
McBride, Ron; Xiang, Ping – Quest, 2004
A number of research agendas including teaching games for understanding, invasion games tactics, cooperative learning, seeking solutions to ill-defined problems, and examining learner's use of domain specific knowledge share thoughtful decision making as a common denominator. For the most part, each of these research strands have been investigated…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking
Gard, Michael – Quest, 2008
It is obviously possible to argue that education is always an arm of social policy. However, there are just as surely degrees of directness between the agendas of noneducational authorities and what happens in school and university classrooms. This article considers what appears to be a direct example of a particular public policy agenda, the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Public Policy, Goal Orientation
Kretchmar, R. Scott – Quest, 2006
One of the greatest challenges we face in kinesiology is changing behavior--specifically, converting habitually sedentary individuals into active human beings. This task is not an easy one. Thus, when we adopt Easy Street strategies that focus on introducing, informing, and entertaining, we have very little hope of effecting such conversions. Easy…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Exercise Physiology, Attitudes, Physical Education