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Körmükçü, Fatma Yesim; Akdeniz, Hakan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The purpose of this study was to review the perception of quality of education in students who take physical education and sports education in three different universities. Descriptive survey model was used in this study to reveal the current situation. The Six-Question Personal Information Form and also Scale of Quality of Education in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Physical Education, Athletics, Departments
Weston, Linda Yaron – Liberal Education, 2020
In the fall of 2019, at the University of Southern California (USC), nine students died of causes that included suicide and drug use. The campus community was shaken by grief and called for action to support student mental health. As educators confront the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racial justice issues, addressing student well-being is more…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Health, Grief, Suicide
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Menevse, Aliye; Yapici, Emir – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study aims to compare the opinions of students in the departments of sports management (SM) and coaching (COA) in the USA Bergen Community College and Esenyurt University on their department preferences and on education. Descriptive research model was employed in the study. A total of 300 students from Esenyurt University (SM; n=71, COA; n=…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Education, Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis
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Block, Betty Ann – Quest, 2014
This article discusses the need for chairs to recognize the changing and interconnected nature of postmodern times by engaging with policy makers, politics, and coalitions in this age of supercomplexity. Chairing a kinesiology department is a rewarding and complex position fraught with uncertainty; nevertheless, tolerating and planning for…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Exercise Physiology, Physical Education, School Policy
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Tinning, Richard – ACHPER Australia Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 2008
Dr Fritz Duras was the first director of a department of physical education in an Australian university. He had a significant influence on the development of the field of physical education in Australia and his legacy is honoured at each biennial ACHPER conference with the Fritz Duras memorial lecture. Recently, the Graduate School of Education at…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Higher Education, Departments
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Jackson, John; Muir, Walter – Educational Management & Administration, 1994
Examines how chairpersons of physical education departments in North American universities identify and manage their marginal faculty members, in the context of an exploratory model suggested by O'Reilly and Wietz (1980). Up to 15% of faculty members are perceived as being nonproductive or marginal, but very few are ever dismissed. Proposes some…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Department Heads, Dismissal (Personnel), Foreign Countries