Busy doing nothing? Physical education teachers' perceptions of young people's participation in leisure-sport     

Ken Green  Andy Smith  Miranda Thurston 《Sport, Education and Society》2013,18(4):401-420

Within the substantial body of research examining the professional knowledge of physical education (PE) teachers one particular area remains relatively under-explored: namely, their understandings of young people's participation in leisure-sport and the implications of this, if any, for the practice of PE. There are grounds for thinking, however, that in this aspect of their professional knowledge PE teachers might not be as conversant with patterns of participation—among young people, generally, and their own pupils, in particular—as one might expect. In order to examine this tentative hypothesis, the present study involved focus groups with a total of 29 PE teachers at six secondary schools in England. A central finding of the study was that PE teachers' perceptions of their youngsters' leisure-sport lives tended to be characterized by a blend of myth and reality. Many teachers, for example, underestimated the levels of participation in leisure-sport both of their own pupils and the 15–16 years age group, generally. Nevertheless, the teachers' observations regarding what amounted to growing and diversifying sporting repertoires among their pupils were, to a greater or lesser degree, commensurate with the profiles reported by the pupils, and with wider trends associated with the changing lifestyles and preferences of young people. The paper concludes by briefly locating this study of professional knowledge within the sociology of knowledge, while observing that the content and form of PE for Year 11 pupils at the six schools in this study appeared to be informed by the common-sense, everyday knowledge of PE teachers rather than by evidence from national or local surveys of young people or studies of their own pupils.  相似文献   

Velocity profiling using inertial sensors for freestyle swimming   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Andy Stamm  Daniel A. James  David V. Thiel 《Sports Engineering》2013,16(1):1-11

The ability to unobtrusively measure velocity in the aquatic environment is a fundamental challenge for engineers and sports scientists and important in assessing the skill level. The aim of this research was to develop a method for velocity profiling in freestyle swimming utilising a purpose-built inertial sensor. Seventeen swimmers with different experience levels participated in this study performing a total of 159 laps in the velocity range from 0.79 to 2.04 m s^?1. Data were collected using a triaxial accelerometer and a tethered velocity meter. The collected acceleration data were filtered using a 0.5 Hz Hamming-windowed FIR filter to remove the gravitational acceleration before the lap velocity profiles were calculated. These calculated lap velocity profiles were then compared with the velocity profiles measured by the velocity meter using Bland–Altman analysis. The scattering follows a normal distribution with a mean skewness of 0.96 ± 0.47 and kurtosis of 2.93 ± 1.12. The results show that an inertial sensor alone can be used to determine a lap velocity profile from single point acceleration records.  相似文献   

Impressions of ICOTS II     

Bob Croasdale  Jeff Evans  Jerry L. Moreno  Harry O. Posten  Andy Begg  John Bernard  Ethel C. Henderson 《Teaching Statistics》1987,9(1):2-7

The following short contributions are from people who attended the Second International Conference on Teaching Statistics held in Victoria, August 1986  相似文献   

Editorial     

Begg  Roddy 《Tertiary Education and Management》2000,6(1):1-2

Tertiary Education and Management -  相似文献   

Factors that influence university students’ intention to use Moodle: a study in Macau     

Teo  Timothy  Zhou  Mingming  Fan  Andy Chun Wai  Huang  Fang 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2019,67(3):749-766

Educational technology research and development - Moodle is widely used in higher education institutions in this digital age. With the growing popularity of Moodle use in education, this study...  相似文献   

Diversity in language: Outdoor terminology in the Czech Republic and Britain     

Ivana Tur   ov  Andy Martin  Jan Neuman 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2005,5(2):101-117

This paper reviews literature related to outdoor terminology as it is used within the languages of British English and Czech. It provides the background to the outdoors in the Czech Republic where terminology has adopted and adapted many English language outdoor terms. The paper analyses the differences and similarities between terms and deals with the problems associated with defining and explaining outdoor terms and translating the British English terms into Czech and vice versa. Semi structured interviews were conducted with British and Czech academic experts. The findings suggest that as the outdoor field develops there is a need for more understanding of the cultural, historical, and geographical differences between concepts and terminology used in both English and non-English speaking countries, for example, the specific indigenous nature of the Czech turistika activities.  相似文献   

情迷咖喱(英文)     

Andy Keedwell 《英语辅导》2012,(7):26

People used to say thatBritlsh food was boring andbland(淡而无味的).Nowadayspeople in Britain have a world offood to choose from.Travel around London and you’ll find foodfrom a round the world.You might comeacross restaurants and cafes serving ethnic  相似文献   

Facilitating growth in prospective teachers’ knowledge: teaching geometry in primary schools     

Rod Nason  Chris Chalmers  Andy Yeh 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2012,15(3):227-249

This paper reports on a study that focused on growth of understanding about teaching geometry by a group of prospective teachers engaged in lesson plan study within a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. Participation in the activity was found to facilitate considerable growth in the participants?? pedagogical-content knowledge (PCK). Factors that influenced growth in PCK included the nature of the lesson planning task, the cognitive scaffolds inserted into the CSCL virtual space, the meta-language scaffolds provided to the participants, and the provision of both private and public discourse spaces. The paper concludes with recommendations for enhancing effective knowledge-building discourse about mathematics PCK within prospective teacher education CSCL environments.  相似文献   

(3) Development of resource sharing: Pakistan     

Nematullah Begg 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(3):295-297

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Re-presenting the ‘forgotten estate’: participatory theatre,place and community identity     

Susan Jones  Christine Hall  Pat Thomson  Andy Barrett  Julian Hanby 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2013,34(1):118-131

In this article, we discuss the work undertaken in the first phase of a participatory theatre project which took place on a council housing estate in the Midlands of England, in which residents were invited to share their memories for a production which would present the history of the estate. This community is often characterised as deficient, ageing, welfare-oriented, low in educational attainment and aspiration. Interviews and field notes suggest that there was not a great amount of hope within the community for the success of a participatory arts project such as this. However, the performance attracted a large number of participants who performed to full houses over five nights. Using a place-based approach, we argue that a model of open participation led to the presentation of alternative, more positive, narratives of this community as a place to live.  相似文献