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Government and physical education
No full textGovernment is involved in physical education primarily in two ways, through legislating for national curricula for schools and through the development of sport policy. Behind this relatively simple statement, however, lies a tangled web of complexity. Complexity is an enduring feature of the governance and organisation of sport in the UK generally, and of physical education’s relationship to sport more specifically (Green, 2008). Within such complexity, debates are bound to take place. In this chapter, we will explore some of the lines of debate that constitute the tangled web of the relationship of government and physical education. One line of debate centres on what we mean by ‘government’ and ‘physical education’. As we reflect on this issue and the questions it raises, other lines of debate emerge. Some of these criss-crossing lines are: the ‘relative autonomy’ of educational systems, the operation of power and vested interests, participation versus elite sport, neoliberal practices in education and sport, the role of academic research in policy development, and the obdurate challenge of educational change. In order to follow these lines of debate, we can draw on insights offered by fields such as sport policy, educational policy sociology, and curriculum studies. The chapter follows these debates and the cross-cutting and inter-related insights to them offered by these fields of study. After a brief definition of the core notions of ‘government’ and ‘physical education’, the chapter considers in turn the two main points of connection, national curricula and sport policy. For the sake of coherence in the chapter, the examples and evidence are from the UK, with a particular focus on developments in England. Readers who do not have experience of the UK are invited to consider the extent to which events in other countries do or do not follow the patterns outlined here
Secondary schools in Scotland under reform : the changing nature of governance, policy and curriculum
No full textThis chapter considers the extent to which secondary school education in Scotland can be considered as distinct from the rest of the UK. The chapter outlines the key characteristics of Scottish education, highlighting the important role that the Scottish 'myth' plays in shaping the system and the way that educational actors perceive the system to be. Secondary schools have recently been subjected to enormous reform. The nature of this reform and its implications for the future of the teaching profession are discussed
Conservation management in the age of genomics: Assessing translocation success and signatures of selection in a conservation icon, the greater prairie-chicken
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01The student, Samantha Capel, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-11 at 15:41.The student, Samantha Capel, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2022-07-11 at 16:11.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2022-07-12 at 11:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18222 on 2022-11-15 at 21:39:44In the face of growing anthropogenic threats to biodiversity, species translocations have become a common strategy to rescue populations from extirpation through restoring population densities and genetic diversity. While successful examples of genetic rescue of endangered populations have received a great deal of attention, many translocations have shown equivocal results. In my dissertation, I employ a conservation icon, the greater prairie-chicken, to explore the genomic consequences of species translocations. By performing RADseq on translocation source and recipient populations, I explore the genomic consequences of translocations and investigate signatures of contemporary evolution. My findings indicate that translocations resulted in successful introgression of source population variation, significantly increasing genome-wide diversity in the previously genetically depauperate Illinois population. Analyses of private alleles among source and recipient populations revealed maintenance of local variation in conjunction with introduction of unique variation from each source population. Further, source and recipient populations exhibit significant signatures of selective differentiation indicative of local adaptation. Investigations of regions exhibiting adaptive differentiation in Illinois reveal heterogeneity in the effects of translocations, including preservation of locally adapted alleles, introgression by individual source populations, and admixture among source and recipient variation. Sampling over a period of approximately 15 generations within two source populations revealed evidence of rapid, contemporary evolution in genes of adaptive significance. Results from my investigations demonstrate the necessity for analyses of genome-wide and adaptively significant genetic variation to comprehensively evaluate translocation success, improve management efficacy, and inform future conservation strategies
The farmer's boy : a rural poem /
No full textTitle vignette; tail-pieces.Preface, containing a brief account of the author, signed: Capel Lofft.Mode of access: Internet
Il sistema degli oggetti in Nada, di Carmen Laforet
No full textIl romanzo Nada (1945) di Carmen Laforet presenta una particolare dominanza tematica dell'oggetto, inteso come depositario e custode di una memoria collettiva che appare, nel contesto del dopoguerra, disgregata e costantemente minacciata dal materialismo e dalla perdita di senso che la società spagnola del dopoguerra patisce in anni così convulsi. Partendo da una ridefinizione dell'oggetto in termini ermeneutici, si cerca di rendere evidente la connessione tra individuo e cosa in un romanzo fondamentale per le lettere spagnole del Novecent
Primary physical education, coaches and continuing professional development
No full textThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Sport, Education and Society, 16(4), 485 - 505, 2011, copyright @ Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13573322.2011.589645.Physical education (PE) in primary schools has traditionally been taught by qualified primary teachers. More recently, some teaching of PE in primary schools has been undertaken by coaches (mostly football coaches). These coaches hold national governing body awards but do not hold teaching qualifications. Thus, coaches may not be adequately prepared to teach PE in curriculum time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of a group of community-based football coaches working in primary schools for the impact of a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme on their ability to undertake ‘specified work’ to cover PE in primary schools. The programme focused on four areas identified as important to enable coaches to cover specified work: short- and medium-term planning, pedagogy, knowledge of the curriculum and reflection. Results showed that for the majority of coaches the CPD programme had made them more aware of the importance of these four areas and had helped to develop their knowledge and ability to put this into practice in covering planning, preparation and assessment time. However, further input is still required to develop coaches’ knowledge and understanding in all four areas, but especially their curriculum knowledge, as well as their ability to put these into practice consistently. These findings are discussed in relation to the implications of employing coaches to cover the teaching of PE in primary schools and, if employed, what CPD coaches need to develop the necessary knowledge, skill and understanding for covering specified work in schools
Derecho para la ciudad en una sociedad democrática. Respuesta a Jean-Pierre Garnier.
No full textIn response to criticisms made by Jean-Pierre Garnier in his paper "Thirty objections to Horacio Capel”, the author reiterates the ideas presented in his article “Generalized Urbanization, right to the city and right for the city”. His fundamental thesis is that citizens must and can be convinced of the need for deep reforms, and that the democratic legal framework allows developing and passing laws truly innovative and even revolutionary. The city can be transformed with the law and from the law.Como respuesta a las críticas efectuadas por Jean-Pierre Garnier en su artículo “Treinta objeciones a Horacio Capel”, el autor se reafirma en las ideas que expuso en la conferencia “Urbanización Generalizada, derecho a la ciudad y derecho para la ciudad”. Su tesis fundamental es que se debe y se puede convencer a los ciudadanos de la necesidad de realizar profundas reformas, y que el marco legal democrático permite elaborar y aprobar leyes verdaderamente innovadoras e incluso revolucionarias. La ciudad puede transformarse con el derecho y desde el derecho
Expérimentation et étude de la validité de nouvelles échelles de personnalité spécifiques à la relation intra-couple
No full textRésumé :
La présente étude vise à déterminer quels sont les facteurs permettant de valider de nouvelles échelles de personnalité spécifiques à la relation intra-couple construites sur la base de profils de personnalité en auto- et hétéro-évaluation.
Pour ce faire, nous avons défini des critères sociologiques (par exemple âge, niveau socioprofessionnel, nombre de relations passées), des critères psychologiques (satisfaction conjugale) et des critères biologiques (distance génétique et préférence d'odeurs) afin de vérifier s'ils sont susceptibles de valider les six échelles de personnalité intra-couples inédites que nous avons construites dans le cadre de cette recherche de doctorat.
Notre échantillon se compose de 106 couples mariés et de 60 jeunes couples non mariés, qui ont chacun complété le test de personnalité L.A. B. E. L. (F Gendre & R. Capel), l'Échelle d'Ajustement Dyadique (Spanier, 1976) ainsi qu'un test génétique pour une partie d'entre eux
Distribution of freshwater fish in the south-western corner of Australia
No full textThis study investigates the distribution of freshwater fishes in the Busselton to Walpole Region. A total of 311 sites in 19 major catchments along the south-west coast from Capel to Walpole, were sampled using a variety of methods. New data was collated with that from previous studies to generate 15 species distribution maps. Habitat and life history notes and recommendations for conservation are made for each species. Changes in fish distribution are also commented upon.
This study contributes to series of documents published for the purposes of water allocation planning in the Busselton to Walpole Region
Scaling and universality in the phase diagram of the 2D Blume-Capel model
No full textWe review the pertinent features of the phase diagram of the zero-field Blume-Capel model, focusing on the aspects of transition order, finite-size scaling and universality. In particular, we employ a range of Monte Carlo simulation methods to study the 2D spin-1 Blume-Capel model on the square lattice to investigate the behavior in the vicinity of the first-order and second-order regimes of the ferromagnet-paramagnet phase boundary, respectively. To achieve high-precision results, we utilize a combination of (i) a parallel version of the multicanonical algorithm and (ii) a hybrid updating scheme combining Metropolis and generalized Wolff cluster moves. These techniques are combined to study for the first time the correlation length of the model, using its scaling in the regime of second-order transitions to illustrate universality through the observed identity of the limiting value of ξ/L with the exactly known result for the Ising universality class. © 2017, EDP Sciences and Springer
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