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Direct linkGraeme Bonato; Maree Dinan-Thompson; Peta Salter – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
This systematic literature review (SLR) investigates the enablers and constraints which impact the enactment of Traditional Indigenous Games within curriculum. SLR methodology was used to identify all potential literature within Australia and internationally, between February 2022 and April 2022. Searches were limited to peer-reviewed literature,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Athletics, Indigenous Populations
Watson, Nick J., Ed.; Jarvie, Grant, Ed.; Parker, Andrew, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
This interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical education can serve as a unique point of commonality in an era of religious, political, economic, and cultural polarity. Originally published as a special issue of "Quest," "Sport, Physical Education, and Social…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach
Taukeni, Simon George, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2023
This book is a collection of chapters addressing numerous features of motivation and success. It includes five chapters divided into two sections: "The Lens of Motivation" and "The Lens of Success". The book demonstrates how motivation can breed success with chapters on entrepreneurship, innovation, socio-culturalism and more.
Descriptors: Motivation, Success, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Schwab, Keri A., Ed.; Stevens, Cheryl L., Ed.; Allen, Lawrence R., Ed.; Sheffield, Emilyn A., Ed.; Murphy, James F., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2020
The third edition of "A Career with Meaning" offers new perspectives on the field and updates on trends and research related to each career area. Of note is the renewed emphasis in our field and thus on understanding the role recreation and leisure play in promoting health and wellness, sustainability, and social justice. The book uses…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreation, Parks, Athletics
Polenghi, Simonetta, Ed.; Németh, András, Ed.; Kasper, Tomáš, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2021
The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. Yet, different cultural and educational trends advocated for life reform and liberation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Human Body, Physical Education
Chin, Ming-Kai, Ed.; Edginton, Christopher R. – Sagamore Publishing LLC, 2014
"Physical Education and Health: Global Perspectives and Best Practice" draws together global scholars, researchers, and practitioners to provide a review and analysis of new directions in physical education and health worldwide. The book provides descriptive information from 40 countries regarding contemporary practices, models, and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Global Approach, Best Practices
Schwab, Keri A., Ed.; Stevens, Cheryl L., Ed.; Allen, Lawrence R., Ed.; Sheffield, Emilyn A., Ed.; Murphy, James F., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2014
"A Career with Meaning" is a tailor-made journey that enables individuals to match their core beliefs and values with numerous professional opportunities within the leisure industry. Leading experts provide detailed discussion and insight for 11 primary areas related to recreation, parks, sport management, hospitality, and tourism. Once…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreation, Parks, Athletics
Witt, Peter A., Ed.; Caldwell, Linda L., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2018
Out-of-school time (OST) settings are powerful contexts for youth development when programs and services are intentionally designed. "Youth Development Principles and Practices in Out-of-School Time Settings" increases the capacity of students and professionals to facilitate youths' optimal transition to adulthood through maximizing the…
Descriptors: Student Development, Adolescent Development, Youth Programs, After School Programs
Download full textQuintana, Erica, Ed. – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2019
In the past few years, people have come to realize that family and child well-being are public health issues. Helping families and children be happy, healthy and resilient helps the larger community. This report will discuss various aspects of family life including the systems that exist to support them, ways families can have more positive…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Child Rearing, Child Development, Community Role
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience or with school employment. This course, Education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Masters Programs, Action Research, Student Projects
Gallian, Joseph A., Ed. – Mathematical Association of America, 2010
"Mathematics and Sports", edited by Joseph A. Gallian, gathers 25 articles that illuminate the power and role of mathematics in the worlds of professional and recreational play. Divided into sections by the kind of sports, the book offers source materials for classroom use and student projects. Readers will encounter mathematical ideas from an…
Descriptors: Track and Field, Team Sports, Mathematical Concepts, Probability
Teitle, Jennifer, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2015
This issue of "Bank Street Occasional Papers" explores the value of time outside of school. Educators have given relatively little scholarly attention to young people's nonschool lives. Ignored or valorized, nonschool spaces show up in educational research only as a backdrop, implying that school learning is the yardstick by which to…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Family Environment, Asian Culture, Foreign Countries
Walker, Gordon J., Ed.; Scott, David, Ed.; Stodolska, Monika, Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2016
"Leisure Matters: The State and Future of Leisure Studies" updates and expands Jackson and Burton's "Mapping the Past, Charting the Future" (1989) and "Leisure Studies: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century" (1999). The need to do so was driven by the significant new developments in the leisure studies field and the…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Anthropology, History, Philosophy
Dowling, Fiona, Ed.; Fitzgerald, Hayley, Ed.; Flintoff, Anne, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that enable students, academics and professionals alike to…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Athletics, Foreign Countries
Poetter, Thomas S. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor. The book represents the best of what can be found in teaching and learning, in general, and in the quest for meaningful ways to understand curricula in…
Descriptors: Democracy, Algebra, Graduate Study, Curriculum Design
