Rethinking College Athletics
College sport is a major part of our cultural landscape, but it is perennially troubled with rule violations, academic failure, and exploitation. As recent moral philosophy has turned to practical issues, it has somehow overlooked the problems in its own back yard. This collection of essays enables us to step back from the sports page for both a broader view and a deeper look at college athletics. The editors, who are themselves moral philosophers, have brought together many perspectives phenome...
An Adventure with Childhood Obesity (An Adventure with Childhood Obesity)
by Plum Hutton and Kate Rennie
An Adventure with Childhood Obesity is an exciting storybook and guidebook pair, designed to help readers understand the physical, social and psychological effects of obesity on children and young people. Down Mount Kenya on a Tea Tray: Wesley had never thought much about his lifestyle or how he looked. He enjoyed eating his way through weekends in front of the telly with his mum. However, fate catapults him to a new life in East Africa and he is forced to face the negative impact that obesity...
Pearson Etext Total Fitness and Wellness, Brief Edition -- Access Card
by Scott K Powers and Stephen L. Dodd
This issue describes an ongoing reform effort in which a university and a school district team up to improve physical education by improving workplace conditions and educating teachers about how to improve their curriculum. Unlike other reform efforts, the Saber-Tooth Project features (1) a sustained effort, with (2) frequent, close interaction between the collaborators and (3) university faculty that are invested in the outcome of the effort and involved on-site. Learn about how well this appro...
Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Physical Education
by Mary Lou Veal and William G Anderson
Students love games, but unfortunately, games are often taught in ways that alienate or exclude less-skilled students. Or worse yet, students find the games boring because they have no voice in how the games are played. Student-Designed Games: Strategies for Promoting Creativity, Cooperation, and Skill Development helps teachers and youth leaders make games fun again. This innovative, step-by-step guide helps students from early elementary sch...
Women's Basketball Coaches Monthly Success Planner
by Glenda Fieldstone
Looseleaf for Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications
by Susan K Telljohann, Cynthia W Symons, Beth Pateman, and Denise M Seabert
" Many sport psychology texts focus on what to do -- relaxation, imagery, etc. This is the first text to focus directly on the how of doing sport psychology.Doing Sport Psychology involves much more than the standard techniques such as goal setting and positive self-talk. Counselors' personalities, the history of their relationships with athletes, the interaction of individual psychologists and athletes with entire teams--these factors are at least as important as the application of standard pro...
Graph Journal (Graph Composition Notebook) (Math Notebook Graph Paper)
by Modhouses Publishing