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Myers, Nicholas D.; Lee, Seungmin; Chun, Haeyong; Silverman, Stephen – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this manuscript is to provide a summary of Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science (MPEES)-related activities in 2021. Manuscripts submitted: In 2021 original submissions (i.e., not counting revised manuscripts) increased by [approximately]20% as compared to 2020. Fifty-eight countries were represented across…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Exercise, Measurement, Research
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Deniz Koyuncu – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
This article describes the author's experience as a specialist working at a nature-based sleepaway camp for children and their families in Antalya Geyikbayiri. The camp was organized by a psychotherapist and three expert instructors to enhance the connections between parents and children, other children and parents present, and with the natural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resident Camp Programs, Outdoor Education, Children
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Cari Din; Martin MacInnis – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2024
As part of a large exercise physiology laboratory (lab) reform project, we used blended learning to support graduate teaching assistants and lab technicians in developing their pedagogical knowledge and create an entry point to reflective conversations about teaching and learning. Because self-paced asynchronous online modules can enable…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Exercise Physiology, Laboratories, Educational Change
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Wang, Zhen – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
China is experiencing an air pollution crisis, which has already had a significantly negative impact on the health of the Chinese people. Although exercising is considered a useful means to prevent chronic diseases, it could actually lead to adverse effects due to extra exposure to polluted air when done outdoors. After a brief description of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pollution, Public Health, Exercise
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Cavallini, M. Felicia; Dyck, David J.; Sui, Xuemei; Blair, Steven N. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2020
The purpose of this article is to propose ways in which to increase PA levels in students from elementary and secondary schools, based on the implications of research findings examining adults' attitudes, beliefs, outlooks and preferences on PA and exercise. In other words, can the information that we have learned from adults in their relationship…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
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Schinke, Robert J.; Middleton, Thierry; Petersen, Brennan; Kao, Sanfu; Lefebvre, Deborah; Habra, Bahaa – Quest, 2019
There are varied approaches that have been used in sport for development (SFD) projects. This article is focused on the move by sport and exercise psychology researchers toward community-based SFD projects where marginalized groups are centralized. The authors have chosen two of their projects to exemplify different approaches to SFD. An initial…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Exercise, Sport Psychology
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Pinto, Luís Manuel – Childhood Education, 2020
A moon exploration is one example of what Jasmine, and other children in the experimental township of Auroville in India, experience on a regular basis--the Auroville equivalent of a physical education class. It is one of the practices in Awareness Through the Body (ATB), which is described by its creators as "a comprehensive curriculum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Human Body, Learning Activities
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Bates, Susan – Early Childhood Folio, 2016
In the Hebrew story, King Solomon was asked to decide which of two "harlots" was the mother of an infant. His proposal to divide the baby between them revealed who could recognise the child's best interests. This ancient story has resonance for early childhood education, for although our curriculum holds the wellbeing of children at its…
Descriptors: Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Well Being, Mental Health
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Milne, Robert – Primary Science, 2016
In recent years, many schools have taken up food gardening. This is a welcome trend, but it has had to be conducted as an extracurricular activity, often with the help of, or run by, parents and grandparents. Growing vegetables and fruit, if it is to be done well, is a complex activity. The potential good outcomes for health, learning, and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Horticulture, Food, Elementary Education
Zayapragassarazan, Z. – Online Submission, 2016
This article is my reflection about the recent incident that took place in a sports ground in Pondicherry, India where a 17-year-old school boy collapsed and died in the sports ground after running only 80 meters in the 1500 meters race. The cause of death was an underlying cardiac cause that has manifested during the athletic event. The stress…
Descriptors: First Aid, Educational Needs, Health Education, Fatigue (Biology)
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Dean, Lewis G.; Breslin, Angela; Ross, Emma Z. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
Homeostasis, the control of an internal environment to maintain stable, relatively constant conditions, is a key concept in physiology. In endothermic species, including humans ("Homo sapiens"), the control of body temperature is fundamental to the control of a suitable internal environment. To help regulate core body temperature, the…
Descriptors: Physiology, Human Body, Metabolism, Heat
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Hodges, Lynette; Martin, Andrew – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
Universities globally have continued to strategically increase work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for students to enhance graduate employability. However, meeting the needs of the increasing number of placements in industry settings places challenges on employers and academic programme coordinators. This paper examines an innovative…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs, Teaching Methods, Online Courses
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Kerridge, Richard – Teaching History, 2017
Richard Kerridge writes here about his efforts to help students to overcome an experience that was once his own: of being labelled low-ability, with all the attendant lowering of expectations that this entails. He recognises the merits of rigorously ensuring that all students should be able to access their entitlement in terms of what they are…
Descriptors: Labeling (of Persons), Low Achievement, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Naumann, Fiona; Moore, Keri; Mildon, Sally; Jones, Philip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2014
This paper aims to develop a valid method to assess the key competencies of the exercise physiology profession acquired through work-integrated learning (WIL). In order to develop a competency-based assessment, the key professional tasks needed to be identified and the test designed so students' competency in different tasks and settings could be…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Competence, Test Construction, Work Experience
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Merga, Margaret K.; Williams, Ross – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2016
Contemporary health educators in schools are responsible for promoting the health of individual students, as well as a healthy school environment. The ongoing push for increasing device use in schools, which is underpinned by the information and communications technology (ICT) capability requirements of the new Australian Curriculum, can…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teacher Role, Risk Management, Health Promotion
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