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Guidelines for the Selection of Physical Literacy Measures in Physical Education in Australia
Get PDFAssessment of physical literacy poses a dilemma of what instrument to use. There is currently no guide regarding the suitability of common assessment approaches. The purpose of this brief communication is to provide a user's guide for selecting physical literacy assessment instruments appropriate for use in school physical education and sport settings. While recommendations regarding specific instruments are not provided, the guide offers information about key attributes and considerations for the use. A decision flow chart has been developed to assist teachers and affiliated school practitioners to select appropriate methods of assessing physical literacy. School PE and sport scenarios are presented to illustrate this process. It is important that practitioners are empowered to select the most appropriate instrument/s to suit their needs
Exploring the Role of Dietitians in the Delivery of Food Safety Information
Get PDFIndividuals with compromised-immunity have an increased risk of foodborne disease. There’s a need for such individuals to be made aware of risk reducing food safety practices to reduce the potential risk of foodborne disease in this population. Dietitians are regulated by law to assess, diagnose and treat dietary/nutritional problems, working with individuals and indirectly, through training/education of other health professionals. Identification of individuals who are at risk of foodborne illness by dietitians is key to effective provision of any amount of food safety information to vulnerable patients. Food safety advice provided by dietitians for appropriate individuals could form part of their dietetic management, and research has found that the public have named dietitians as health professionals they trust to provide food safety advice. However, gaps in food safety knowledge of registered dietitians are apparent, despite inclusion of food safety training in the undergraduate dietetic curriculum. The aim of this paper is to explore the potential role dietitians play in delivery of food safety information and consider this from an international perspective, as well as determining potential opportunities to enable dietitians to deliver clinically applicable food safety information to consumers in order to help reduce their risk of foodborne disease
‘I’ve drawn, like, someone who was the world’: drawings as embodied gestures of lived yoga experience
Get PDFThere have been strong calls to develop the study of sensory embodied scholarship in sport and physical culture that is open for all academic fields to consider. Work so far relies largely upon the sensory intelligence of the researcher in auto/ethnographic approaches and drawing as a traditional arts-based visual methods approach is rare. This paper seeks to address this situation by offering an original example of a participant-generated drawing methodology to explore lived experience of yoga. To do so we utilise phenomenology to frame our position on the mind-body-world relationship as it relates to the goals and practice of yoga and of drawing as an embodied gesture. We offer visual-led interpretations of drawings produced by participants after yoga practice, of composition strategies and the verbal explanations they invite. The drawings created new empirical and methodological insights into how the environment or world is attended to by yoga practitioners as part of a sensory emplaced experience, and opened up new dialogues and exchanges of data between the fields of physical culture and art and of the challenges of investigating lived sensory experience in this way. Our findings provide an original example of how drawings and arts-based knowledge might be incorporated into a sensory embodied research agenda in sport and physical culture. More bridging work between the arts and physical culture is needed to develop methodologies for use with novice drawer participants
The Longitudinal Development of Movement Competency in Young High-Level Golfers
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to longitudinally monitor movement competency of golfers in a talent development program. Thirty-six golfers were included in the study (24 males, 12 females); on entry the mean age was 14.38 ± 2.88 years and mean handicap was 6. Participants completed the Golf Movement Screen (GMS). Data was collected annually at the start of each off-season in the program, providing three testing occasions over a two-year period. Total GMS score significantly improved (all p < 0.05) year-on year from 41 ± 13 on entry, to 52 ± 13 in year 1, and 63 ± 14 in year 2. Handicap also significantly improved from 6 ± 5 on entry to 2 ± 4 in year 2 (p < 0.05). Significant improvements were found in 7 of the 10 exercises between entry and year 1, and 9 of the 10 exercises between entry and year 2 (all p < 0.05), while scores for the remaining exercise were high on entry and remained stable. The findings suggest that golfers in a talent development program are able to improve their movement competency, and that the GMS has the sensitivity to detect these changes
Young Adults’ Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding “Music” and “Loud Music” Across Countries: Applications of Social Representations Theory
Get PDFExposure to loud music, especially by young people, has significantly increased in recent years as a result of (a) advancements in technology in terms of personal music players and smart mobile phones, and (b) streaming of music through these devices. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that some 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of developing hearing loss due to exposure to recreational noise such as music. It is suggested that knowledge and attitude of young adults toward music has bearing upon their music listening habits and thereby influences who is at risk of developing music induced hearing loss. Hence, researchers from various fields have tried to understand the knowledge and attitude of young adults regarding loud music. However, there is some criticism of attitude studies as there is little relation between expressed attitude and behavior. Some recent studies have explored the social representations of music and loud music using the Social Representations Theory (SRT). It has been suggested that social representation is more fundamental than attitude (or in other words social representation informs attitude), hence, it has a better relation to behavior. The current paper: (1) provides an overview of studies on knowledge and attitude of young adults toward loud music, (2) discusses the limitations of attitude theories and introduces SRT, and (3) provides a summary of social representation studies on “music” and “loud music” in young adults from different countries
Simulated Environments for Food Packaging Design Assessment
Get PDFUsing applied retail research, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the viability of
using a simulated environment to conduct packaging design validation tests in order to
gain deep insights into the ways in which shoppers make buying decisions. The
resultant knowledge will provide empirical data on packaging design for Welsh food
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The potential of the ‘Internet of Things’ to enhance inquiry in Singapore schools
Get PDFBackground: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global network of data-sensing devices which pupils can access during science or other curriculum activities.
Purpose: This article reports on a commissioned evaluation of a small-scale pilot project to explore the potential of the IoT combined with local sensors to enhance pupils’ data interpretation skills within inquiry-based approaches to primary science and secondary geography education.
Sample: The project involved 14 teachers and 196 pupils from three primary and two secondary schools in Singapore.
Design and methods: Using a mixed-method approach, the evaluation drew upon repeated video interviews with the teaching teams in each school, planning documentation and repeated pupil attitude surveys to determine the extent to which investigative and inquiry-based learning had been promoted; the contextual factors influencing effective implementation and the leadership expertise required to manage the project.
Results: The combined use of IoT and local sensors appears to have effected some pedagogic change in participant teachers and led to some pupil learning gains in procedural skills; however significant technical and pedagogic challenges – together with tensions between time allocation and curriculum coverage – limited the extent to which the approach was embedded within classroom practice.
Conclusion: This pilot project suggests strategies to meet the challenges associated with using the emergent technology of the Internet of Things to enhance inquiry-based science education
Multi academy trusts in England: a scenario of cooperation with universities
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The purpose of this paper is to present the authors’ views of university–multi academy trusts’ (MATs) opportunities for future interconnectivity that could support successful partnerships.
Design/methodology/approach:
The authors developed a matrix of university–MATs partnerships that could help identifying potential scenarios of collaboration between universities and MATs.
Findings:
Four potential scenarios of collaborations are proposed (board membership, academic supervision, recruitment support and academic support).
Research limitations/implications:
Scholars in the field can further investigate the four proposed scenarios in the matrix in future studies.
Practical implications:
The matrix will be useful for universities and MATs management for potential cooperation in the future.
Originality/value:
The study proposes four scenarios of cooperation between MATs and universities
A business model approach towards the understanding of daily deals within Internet distribution systems
Get PDFThe business model approach is making a slow, but steady footprint in tourism research, and can offer a fresh perspective and a viable level-of-analysis for broader networks of internet distribution systems. Among those, the researchers have devoted limited attention to studying the daily deal providers and their position next to the online travel agencies. More importantly, the daily deal providers developed a unique business model whose characteristics, contrary to early predictions, enabled them to proliferate post-recession and maintain their position. The current study uses the business model approach to observe the original dimensions and business model elements, to identify distinct characteristics of generic and niche daily deal providers, and to benchmark them against the established online travel agencies. The business model approach enhances the understanding of the overlooked niche daily-deal providers in internet distribution systems. Further, the paper provides a comparison of the distinct business model characteristics in internet distribution systems to help facilitate the formulation of a unique value proposition for each of them. Ultimately, the authors acknowledge limited possibilities for cooperation between the providers and discuss substantive directions of daily deal and internet distribution systems business model transformations of the future
Zoe Preece: Pacing the Perimeter
Get PDFAn artist’s studio reflects a kind of human geography, a social mapping of space as important to them as the doors and walls of the architecture itself. This is what Edward Soja terms as a ‘Third Space’, a rather brilliant notion that, put simply, declares that positioned in-between ‘real’ space (the bricks and mortar of 24 Tudor Lane) and ‘imagined’ space (our claim to that building as a collective of artists), lies a ‘third space’ where those bricks and rental contracts are turned into a sanctuary, become invested with individual and collective agency.
The studio is itself a poetic example, devoted to, and enabling thoughts and feelings to be given form. This ‘Third Space’ is precisely where creativity takes place, arising from the friction between the concrete objective world and the narratives of ownership and identity that surround it. We take from the physical: corners and walkways, doorways and tables and attribute to them social or personal meaning.
To gain permission to view an artist’s studio and recognise it as much as a psychological structure as a physical one, is to gain privileged insight into their social mapping, their interrelatedness with the world. This is the premise on which I want to explore the work and working environment of Zoe Preece, one of the members of Fireworks co-operative