Values,Passion, and the Expected Lifespan of Physical Education

Many physical educators and exercise scientists lack the professional commitment and passion that could be generated were they only to identify and embrace objective, shared values. The general absence of firm value commitments places our profession at risk and may shorten its lifespan. The source of the “value problem” lies outside physical education in contemporary society itself. Features of our value-free or value-relative culture can be seen in fictional literature, and they are detailed by current social scientists. By way of contrast, other selections from literature, sociology, and philosophy show how objective values produce a more “brightly colored” world, one that could engender a sustained and well-directed passion for important goals. The rediscovery of values could lead to a different, stronger, and more durable profession.     

The Politics of Maintaining Professional Values in the 21st Century

ABSTRACT

Looking ahead, it seems clear that organizing together the values we espouse as a profession could help us to live and work in a global kinesiology community in the best possible way. It is politic, in that it seems sensible and judicious to act on this principle, to organize and maintain a coherent framework of professional values. In which case, it will require that we be political insofar as we collaboratively engage in the process of making uniform decisions that apply to all the members of our profession now, and in the future. To achieve that goal, an important challenge for the next generation of kinesiology is to develop and deliver a values education product that is efficacious and exciting—together. This means we all take responsibility for the mission of delivering a values-education product to the students that fits the goals of our academic unit and institution. This challenge is not just directed at the philosophers and ethicists in our midst. The need for values education spans the kinesiology alphabet. Values and ethical issues are foundational from A to Z, (anatomy to zip-lining), from the most extensive scholarly study to the most intensive physical activity. Total transformation of the curriculum to embrace new best teaching and learning practices entails a new social contract that involves united faculty input and execution. The goal is to develop a future-oriented curriculum that is premised upon the examination and explication of carefully selected and monitored values. The quandary facing us is which values to select and how to effectively base a curriculum on them. Professionals in our field may resonate with this general call to values, but there might be less agreement on the specifics, particularly which values to choose as the basis of our curricula; even less consensus may occur when answering the swampy question of which policies and procedures we should adopt to implement a values-centered program.     

Spatial abilities and mathematics education—A review

This paper examines the interface between two sets of psychological constructs. One set concerns the visual/spatial field and the other, mathematics education. But rather than do a conceptual analysis or report an empirical investigation, I have chosen to review the different research emphases which have contributed to knowledge in this area, and to describe what they can, or cannot, offer the mathematics educator. I show that this literature does contain many potentially fruitful ideas and approaches which we in mathematics education can use either in the classroom, or to guide our own research efforts. Also it will be seen that the goals of research psychologists may lead them in a direction which is away from our concerns, and that therefore we must exercise caution and keen judgement in selecting those ideas and approaches which will enable us to develop our own field.     

浅析终身体育与高校体育

通过对我国身体教育现状以及高校体育教学的地位和作用的分析，认为高校体育教育应对树立以终身体育理论为指导思想，培养学生的体育兴趣、受好及习惯，提高锻炼能力，树立终身从事体育锻炼的观念。     

On Tilting at Windmills While Facing Armageddon

Since the 1960s, numerous articles, special features, symposia, and conferences have raised perceptive and often troubling questions about the present condition and future directions of the field. In the 1980s, the debates reached a crescendo with issues about specialization, fragmentation, professional versus academic, and what should comprise the academic core. Any profession should periodically evaluate itself; it is now time, however, to marshall our efforts and concentrate on what our collective strengths are—or should be. It is suggested herein that useful lessons might be gleaned from an overview of American medicine at the turn of the century and recent discussions concerning medical education. Medicine combines both clinical and academic/scientific studies and draws upon knowledge ranging from the molecular to the macro levels. American medicine and medical education struggled through uncertainties 100 years ago that are not unlike those that physical education has been involved in for the last 3 decades. To achieve first-class academic and professional respectability, however, more physical education faculty must become producers (rather than consumers) of scholarly and scientific knowledge. Moreover, our professional organization must devote greater attention to fostering research, the foundation upon which the respectability of a profession rests.     

Changing Kinesiology and Physical Education by Infusing Information About Individuals With Disabilities

Just as faculty are expected to refer to performance and behavior changes that occur by age, gender, and other factors, an infusion of information about individuals with disabilities requires us to focus on the range of human variability and its relation to physical activity across the life span. This call to infuse information about individuals with disabilities should affect most kinesiology/ physical education undergraduate and graduate curricula in institutions of higher education. Advocacy for this idea has been developing for many years (Hall & Stiehl, 1978; Sherrill, 1988; Stein, 1969). Such infusion could add to and enhance our ability to contribute to the broad goals of society. But for us to assume this role, we must change our curricula to meet our published mission of serving society. This change will help disciplinary and professional preparation programs produce a broader range of scholarly activity and provide leadership that other disciplines may envy     

浅谈学校体育与终身体育

实现全民健身计划,是实现我国社会主义现代化目标和发展战略规划的重要内容,学校体育将是实施全民健身的重要阵地。改革我国学校体育的指导思想,必须以终身体育为指导思想,传授体育健身的理论知识、方法和手段,使学生建立终身锻炼的意识习惯,使之终身从事体育锻炼。     

我国高等教育的创新与价值趋向

近年来,随着我国高等教育体制的不断改革与完善,对于高等教育的创新与价值取向提出更为明确的目标.高等教育作为我国培养高素质人才的重要阶段,不但要注重教学的实际效果和质量,而且要从培养大学生综合素质的角度出发,引导其树立科学的观念.     

大学生参与课外体育活动现状及对策研究——以常州高职教育园区为例

通过对常州市高职教育园区大学生课外体育活动参与现状调研发现:多数学生喜欢参与课外活动,其中在参与方式上,采取自我锻炼的居多;各院校课外体育活动组织种类少、规模小,特色项目普及率低;场地器材存在不足。为解决上述问题,提出了加强对大学生体育锻炼的引导,加强体育生活方式宣传力度,积极实施体育生活化教育,开展多样性的体育活动,及时做到保证和督促学生参加课外体育活动等建议。     

The Politics,Roles, and Future of Professional Societies

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes various issues related to a professional society’s having greater influence on governmental, societal, and global issues. Analysis of association/society missions and goals, support for enhanced connections with other groups and collaboration to other disciplines through scholarly research projects, plus greater relevance and impact of scholarly inquiry on societal and global issues is presented. However, association/society influence is marginalized unless there is enhanced support by university leadership and faculty of a new or expanded view of scholarly inquiry. One possibility in gaining support or recognition by colleagues, government, community, and society is through a name change that reflects expanded mission and goals, plus a grants program which identifies with Boyer’s model of expanded academic scholarship and impact.     

Vision in an Age of Accountability

A case is presented against a data collection system that is intended to provide increased accountability of teachers, professors and the profession. The utilization of some current data collection systems may in fact jeopardize the integrity of the profession's mission and goals. The cause of concern is the use of the easiest form of data collection (e.g., fitness, skills, math, and science scores) rather than evidence viewing the student as a complex organism that would require a more appropriate and complex assessment system (i.e., “life skills” activity participation and social skills rather than a fitness test). I also note that a focus on increased accountability and simplified data collection provides the impetus that research in higher education needs to consider a paradigm shift to be more collaborative and holistic. In presenting these issues, I note that the vision of Delphine Hanna was similar, specifically more collaborative, more holistic, and more humanistic in making scholarly and professional decisions.     

Reflections on the Teacher Education System Overhaul (TESO) program in Ethiopia: Promises, pitfalls, and propositions

In 2003 the Ethiopian education system experienced wide-ranging reform that touches every aspect of the system. This reform is called TESO (Teacher Education System Overhaul). Designed to address educational problems in Ethiopia, TESO introduced significant structural changes and promised to bring a ‘paradigm shift’ in the Ethiopian educational system by engaging teacher education in changing society and promoting democratic, practical, and problem-solving education. This paper examines, through an analysis of the TESO document and an examination of the views of teacher educators, TESO’s assumptions, mission and the coherence among the various components of TESO. It also reveals gaps and discrepancies between TESO’s mission, its reform process, and strategies. The promise and assumptions of TESO are challenged by considering extant realities in Ethiopian schools and evidence from literature on effective teacher education programs and educational reform. The paper reflects on how, by giving priority to equity, TESO compromises on some elements of effective teacher education programs. It is indicated that TESO has been a welcome addition to the Ethiopian education system as it addresses elements that had previously been missing from the system, such as, outlining directions to teacher education, devoting longer duration for practicum, and heeding seriously to the professional preparation of teachers. At the same time, it is contended that the imbalance among program components, its permeability to ill-prepared students and the contradiction between program rhetoric and strategy and reform processes, as described by teacher educators, could be stumbling blocks which prevent TESO from fulfilling its promises.     

Daybreak: A Scholarly Biography of Counsellor Educator Dr. R. Vance Peavy

This paper highlights the life of Dr. R. Vance Peavy, one of Canada's long-time counsellor educators and an international speaker and author. Using biographical and narrative research methods, the reader is privy to candid stories revealing intimate connections which Vance made between life experiences and his scholarly convictions for the profession and for counsellor education. Through the vehicle of narrative, important issues are raised which continue to echo through the profession—issues which impact us personally as clinicians and issues which speak to our vision of the profession as a whole.     

Professional Reflexivity,External Disciplinary Challenges,and Sociocultural Scholarship in Physical Education

Enhancement of “social vision and moral understanding” is currently an important agenda for professional education in higher education. Furthermore, sociocultural studies of sport, exercise, and the body have gained academic respectability in the last two decades, and presently numerous scholars in the traditional social science and humanities disciplines are engaged in research focusing on these phenomena. Sport, exercise, and the body are of central concern to physical education. Furthermore, one of physical education's goals is the preparation of professionals to provide services centered on exercise and sport. Given this trend in higher education and the focus of our field, it seems important to consider devoting increased attention to sociocultural studies of sport, exercise, and the body within physical education. Maintenance of a small but excellent cadre of sociocultural scholars in physical education is called for, and an exchange system for outstanding sociocultural graduate students is suggested as a means of assuring continuation of such a cadre.     

梅贻琦大学体育思想简析

梅贻琦的大学体育思想是其教育思想的重要组成部分。关于大学体育的价值、目的、内容及管理,梅贻琦提出了“乐事体育”、“体育是培养高尚人格最好的方法”、“体育救国”等体育思想。同时在实践方面,他积极提高体育教师的地位,将体育设置为必修课,强迫不愿意运动的学生进行体育锻炼,支持学校运动场地设施建设,举办清华暑期体校,开设体育系,等等。梅贻琦的这些体育思想与实践,不仅极大地丰富了我国体育的理论宝库,而且对于当前的高校体育实践都具有重要的借鉴意义。     

中职体育教学中如何激发学生运动兴趣

随着我国教育体制改革的发展,体育教学成为当下中职教学中的一个重要组成部分,如何做好体育教学工作,成为中职教育开展必须把握的一个重要内容。在中职体育教学过程中,要注重让学生更好地参与进来,使学生能够对体育知识点进行有效学习,并做好相应的锻炼。这一过程中,中职体育教学要激发学生的运动兴趣,使学生积极、主动地参与到课堂当中,从而使学生得到更好的锻炼,以促进中职体育教育教学的发展。     

西南地区高校体育课程设置现状及对策研究

运用调查法、文献资料法、数理统计法等对西南地区25所高校体育课程设置的现状进行了调研,结果表明：在西南地区普通高校体育课教学中,多种教育思想并存;“选项课”与“俱乐部”为主要教学实施模式;供学生选择的课程项目不够多样化;大多数体育课程开设年限参差不齐．因此,应确立终身体育为教学指导思想,课程设置应体现多层次化,并需增加课外体育的比例,完善体育课程设置内容,等等．     

综合性院校社会体育专业开设体育导游方向的研究??以襄樊学院为例

体育旅游业是旅游业和体育产业发展到一定阶段的新兴产业.随着我国经济的快速增长和高等社会体育教育改革的深化,开设体育导游方向已成为当前社会和体育院系发展的迫切需要.文章以综合院校社会体育专业开设体育导游方向的必要性和可行性进行了分析与论述,试图为综合院校社会体育专业开设体育导游方向提供一定的借鉴.     

体育应对高校男生女性化的路径及机制研究

高校男生受多维因素影响,存在体质、心理和社会适应层面的女性化危机。体育的应对逻辑有四个方面:一是体育的美学特性有利于破解大学生扭曲的审美偏差,二是体育的健康属性有利于构建大学生积极的生活方式,三是体育的竞争对抗有利于塑造大学生卓越的男子气概,四是体育的规则教育有利于培育大学生正确的社会责任。高校体育应从四条路径上构建男生女性化问题的应对机制:第一,构建高校体育美育协同机制,建立大学生积极向上的审美观;第二,基于生活化推进体育课程改革,引导大学生建立健康生活方式;第三,搭建大学体育竞技对抗平台,培育大学生崇尚竞争的气概和信仰;第四,深化开展体育规则教育,培育大学生的社会责任感和使命感。     

Strategic Indicators of Mission Fulfillment at Assemblies of God Colleges: Reaching Consensus on Faith Integration and Spiritual Formation

Strategic indicators provide timely information about the trends that reflect the current condition and trajectory of an institution in terms of its ability to pursue its mission. Although extensive research has produced a number of strategic indicators for colleges and universities, there is a dearth of research regarding strategic indicators relative to the mission of Christian higher education. In the present Delphi study, a panel of 26 academic leaders from five Assemblies of God colleges reached consensus on 28 strategic indicators relevant for use at their institutions after three rounds of questionnaires. Because the integration of faith and learning, as well as students’ spiritual formation, are distinctive to the mission of Christian higher education, there was a special emphasis on the development of these strategic indicators. The panel selected three indicators for the integration of faith and learning. According to feedback from the panel, many more indicators of integration could have been selected if panelists first agreed on a definition of the integration of faith and learning, as well as how it is to be applied across the disciplines. Two strategic indicators were selected by the panel for the spiritual formation of students, but according to panelists many more could be selected in future research if panelists shared a set of agreed-upon goals and measures of spiritual formation. These findings suggest that future research on the development of strategic indicators for institutions of Christian higher education should begin by clearly defining the concepts that are central to their mission, such as spiritual formation and integration of faith and learning, then identifying inputs, processes, and outcomes measures that are appropriate for those concepts.