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Transitions to University from Vocational and Academic Colleges: Exploring Alignment and Discontinuity
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J. Hastings; A. Noyes – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
The rise in students entering higher education in England with vocational qualifications, or a blend of academic and vocational qualifications, has sparked debate about the correlation between qualifications and degree outcomes. Focusing on Sport and Exercise Science students and mobilising Bourdieu's theory of practice, this paper explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Articulation (Education)
Analysis of Physical Demands during Youth Soccer Match-Play: Considerations of Sampling Method and Epoch Length
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Doncaster, Greg; Page, Richard; White, Paul; Svenson, Robert; Twist, Craig – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the physical match profiles of professional soccer players using 3 and 5 min fixed and rolling averages as well as fixed 1 min averages, with considerations to training prescription. Methods: Twenty-nine professional U23 soccer outfield players competed across 17 competitive matches during the…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletes, Athletics, Competition
An Exploration of Heart Rate and Perceived Exertion Differences between Class and Competition in Freestyle-Disco Dance
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Salmon, Sian; Timmons, Wendy; Saunders, David H. – Research in Dance Education, 2021
Freestyle-disco is a relatively new and complex competitive dance style that, to our knowledge, has yet to be researched. Thus, the purpose of this research was to explore two fundamental physiological characteristics of exercise in relation to freestyle-disco as a starting-point for future research into the style. From this, the authors hope to…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Competition, Exercise Physiology, Females
Caffeine, Gravity, and Baroreceptor Function: The Integration of Diet and Cardiovascular Control
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Hauton, David; Ray, Clare J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
We describe a simple, cost-effective experiment to demonstrate cardiovascular integration of heart rate and blood pressure to accommodate the environmental and dietary factors of gravity and caffeine. Specific learning objectives associated with this include understanding the effects of posture on blood pressure and heart rate, coupled with the…
Descriptors: Physiology, Diagnostic Tests, Dietetics, Environmental Influences
'How Do You Feel? What Is Your Heart Doing?' … 'It's Jumping': The Body and Health in Early Years Education
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Stirrup, Julie – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Policy agendas for early childhood education in the UK as in many countries elsewhere are driven by expectations that play will impact positively on a child's educational attainment, health and well-being. This paper focuses on health knowledge, social class and cultural reproduction within early year education in England, looking specifically at…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Physical Health, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Bodies as Bearers of Value: The Transmission of Jock Culture via the "Twelve Commandments"
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Sparkes, Andrew C.; Partington, Elizabeth; Brown, David H. K. – Sport, Education and Society, 2007
This article explores a number of insights generated from a three-year ethnographic study of one university setting in England in which a "jock culture" is seen to dominate a student campus. Drawing on core concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, it illustrates the unique function of the body in sustaining jock culture…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, National Standards