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Thomas H. Sawyer; Tonya L. Sawyer – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2025
After participating in an amateur hockey game, the plaintiff sued Midwest Training in Lake Superior Court, alleging Midwest Training committed negligence in failing to provide him with protection against third-party criminal attacks while he was on its premises.
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Team Sports, Athletics, Victims of Crime
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van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Vanermen, Lanze; Vandenabeele, Joke; Decuypere, Mathias – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
In this paper, we take an interest in a recently emerged 'DIY sports infrastructure' in a Belgian city: the Open Gym. The purpose of our inquiry is to contribute to the literature regarding sports pedagogy by developing theoretical notions, based on empirical engagements, that render how these kinds of sports infrastructures could make up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Recreational Facilities, Human Body
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Kose, Marika; Tuula-Fjodorov, Reeda; Tappo, Kristin-Marie; Koor, Tatjana; Õun, Kandela – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2023
The demand for outdoor recreational activities is rising. Therefore, it is important to pay more attention to their environmental impact and sustainability. However, there is a lack of methodology for measuring the impact of novel recreational activities, such as disc golf. This research aimed to address the existing environmental problems with…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Athletics, Recreational Activities, Sustainability
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Marsh, J. Patrick; Petersen, Jeffrey C.; Judge, Lawrence W. – Physical Educator, 2021
The health and athletic performance benefits of strength training for adolescents have increased the demand for the development and use of strength and conditioning facilities (SCFs) within the high school setting. Despite the growing prevalence of these facilities, research on high school SCFs is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Muscular Strength, Athletics, High School Students
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Zekioglu, Aylin; Kalkan, Naci – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Anatolia has hosted many civilizations and has made great contributions to the history of humanity in scientific, social and cultural terms. Two of the most important cultures that make up this cultural heritage in Anatolia are Hellenic and Roman culture. The material and intangible cultural heritage of this turnover is still alive in Anatolia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Recreational Facilities, Cultural Influences
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Bingöl, Sükrü – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This research was conducted in order to determine the views of the sports audience who received sports education about the sports organizations postponed due to COVID-19 regarding the postponement. The method of this research, which is a descriptive research, is a scanning model and it was conducted with the questionnaire technique. The…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Aslan, Huseyin; Imamoglu, Osman – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
In this study, it was aimed to investigate Leisure time strategies of sports educated students, who going to Fitness Centers. In addition to sports training, the effect of whether or not to compete as a contestant was also examined for Leisure Strategies. A total of 543 men on fitness centers filled up the Scala "Leisure Strategy Scale"…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Athletics, Training, Competition
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Togo, Osman Tolga; Öztürk, Arda – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
In this study, it is aimed to determine the factors of preference of the recreational areas made by the municipalities of the students studying in the sports departments of the university and living in different geographical regions. The working group of universities in two regions in Turkey are 127 girls and boys studying sports science 182's of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Physical Education, Recreational Facilities, Student Characteristics
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Säfvenbom, Reidar; Stjernvang, Guro – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
Compared to traditional athletes and PE students, self-organized lifestyle sport practitioners usually have no podiums to reach or grades to earn. They have no authorized instructor available, but seem to treat this apparent deficiency as an opportunity to facilitate their own learning processes. However, from a traditional learning perspective,…
Descriptors: Life Style, Athletics, Athletes, Physical Education
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Baykara, Zülküf Erkan; Orhan, Rüstem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This study was conducted to determine job satisfaction levels of physical education teachers. The population of the study consists of 1953 physical education teachers working in public secondary schools and high schools of the Ministry of National Education (MEB) in Ankara in the 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 265…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Physical Education Teachers, Public Schools
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Baikoglu, Selin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
90-95% of vitamin D which has the supreme function of regulating many metabolisms in tissues and organs, is taken from the sunlight through skin. Since wrestling is performed in sun-protected sports halls, we think that a vitamin D replacement will improve the performance of wrestlers, especially as the limited exposure to sunlight is compared to…
Descriptors: Males, Muscular Strength, Athletics, Athletes
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Þrastardóttir, Bergljót; Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir; Lappalainen, Sirpa – Ethnography and Education, 2021
This article focuses on how students make use of different spaces in one compulsory school in Iceland and how gender is produced through activities in these spaces. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted for three months in 2016 among 8th and 9th graders at one public school in Iceland. Our analysis is based on poststructural and material…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Ethnography, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Aksoy, Yener; Karadeniz, Soner – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
This study aims to examine the factors preventing high school students from participating in recreational activities. The study was conducted on 300 students, 150 female (average age; 15,66±1,01) and 150 male (average age; 16,31±1,29), attending high school during 2019-2020 academic year. As data collection tool, "Leisure Constraints…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Participation, Recreational Activities, Adolescents
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Gerhardt, Cornelia; Clarke, Ben; Lecarpentier, Justin – AILA Review, 2021
Football stadiums have traditionally been named after local sites (e.g. "Goodison Park," Everton FC) or regions ("Ruhrstadion," VfL Bochum). As big business takes increasing precedence in decision making in football at large (e.g. associations and leagues, regarding fixtures, media coverage, kick-off times, player transfers,…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Naming, Recreational Facilities, Decision Making
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Sawyer, Tonya L. – Physical Educator, 2017
A Massachusetts appeals court affirmed the ruling of a trial court that a municipality in that state is protected by sovereign immunity in a case in which it was sued by a resident and his spouse who lived adjacent to a baseball diamond and claimed its use was a "nuisance" because of errant baseballs.
Descriptors: Team Sports, Court Litigation, Recreational Activities, Physical Education Facilities
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