‘Sport &amp; Exercise Pedagogy’. The case for a new integrative sub-discipline in the field of Sport &amp; Exercise Sciences/Kinesiology/Human Movement Sciences

Armour, Kathleen; Chambers, Fiona C.

doi:10.1080/13573322.2013.859132

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“…Whereas the problem of physical inactivity is widely accepted, there is far less consensus about effective solutions, the locus of responsibility and role of different professional groups in addressing it, or, indeed, the root cause of the problem (e.g. Andrews, 2008;Armour & Chambers, 2014;Joy, Blair, McBride, & Sallis, 2013;O'Sullivan, 2004;Pate, O'Neill, & McIver, 2011). It is in this dynamic and contested context that the fitness industry and its workforce of "fitness professionals" 1 operate, with claims that they can become a valuable public health resource and an essential component in the delivery of policy recommendations for reducing physical inactivity (e.g., see Central YMCA Qualifications, 2014;European Health & Fitness Association [EHFA] 2011; R. E. Sallis, 2009).…”

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The Role of Fitness Professionals in Public Health: A Review of the Literature

Lyon

Neville

Armour

2016

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Kinesiology researchers have long had an interest in physical activity, fitness, and health issues and in the professional education and work practices of teachers and coaches. The professional development needs and practices of "fitness professionals," however, have not been a major concern for researchers in the field. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the evidence on fitness professionals, their role in physical activity for health agendas, and the professional education and training that is available to support them. The analysis indicates that there is a mismatch between the expectations placed upon fitness professionals and the training and professional education that is available to them. It is argued that pedagogy researchers in kinesiology could usefully turn their attentions to this occupational group.

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The Role of Fitness Professionals in Public Health: A Review of the Literature

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Neville

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2016

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“…In this paper, we have discussed the importance of using different learning theories to explore issues of learning in research grounded in what has been defined as the field of SEP (see Armour & Chambers, 2014). We have presented four methodological challenges to be considered when exploring learning and how different aspects of learning are constituted in practice.…”

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“…This would mean that although our studies would become more complex (perhaps better mirroring the challenges of practice) research findings across studies would have greater coherence. It is argued that this is one way in which research can more successfully bridge the research-practice gap identified by Armour and Chambers (2014) and Kirk and Haerens (2014).…”

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“…Within what we delineate in this special edition as the field of sport pedagogy, or perhaps more appropriately sport and exercise pedagogy (SEP) (Armour & Chambers, 2014), numerous scholars have discussed issues of learning based on behaviourist, constructivist, situated or didactic theories of learning (e.g. Kirk & Macdonald, 1998;Light, 2011;Pope, 2005;Ward & Lee, 2005; for overviews see Amade-Escot, 2006;Rovegno, 2006;Rovegno & Dolly, 2006).…”

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Sport and exercise pedagogy and questions about learning

Quennerstedt

Öhman

Armour

2014

Sport, Education and Society

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One important challenge ahead for sport and exercise pedagogy (SEP) researchers is to consider afresh questions about learning. Learning in the fields of sport, physical activity and physical education (PE) is a particularly complex business. Most existing theories of learning are defined cognitively, yet learning in sport and physical activity contexts is also practical and embodied, and is linked to the powerful wider cultural contexts of sport and related areas such as health. Yet, even though learning in these contexts is particularly complex, practitioners rarely draw upon specific learning theories to ask questions about practice, and researchers in SEP have tended to focus on content and issues of teaching and coaching instead of using learning theories as a way to explore learning or investigate learning. This paper draws on data from a project in Sweden on learning in PE to illustrate the ways in which a learning theory framework can be used to guide research questions, offer important insights into the learning process and make a contribution to the wider literature on learning theory. We also argue that research design grounded in learning theories has the potential to result in greater coherence across studies, thereby offering a more valuable service to practitioners.

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“…From 2008 till 2011 the research was mainly associated with physical activity and its education. The state of the art research is focused on sports science (Armour & Chambers, 2014;Lubowitz et al, 2014;Verberck, 2014), ICT (Couceiro et al, 2013;Rakovic & Lutovac, 2014;Xu, 2014) and teaching (Layne & Hastie, 2014;Roberts & Ryrie, 2014;Stolz & Pill, 2014).…”

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Abstract:Understanding contemporary society requires recognition of the role of sport. Sport is an important international phenomena associated with both societal problems as well as solutions. Positive effects of sport could be enhanced and negative effects significantly reduced by 'proper' sport education. Thus, improved understanding of the relation between sport, sport education and society seem to be essential for further development of the cross -disciplinary research between these fields. In this manner a topic taxonomy and topic interface matrix sustaining diversity and progress of individual research topics were established using bibliometric analysis and visualisation. Corpus was retrieved from the Scopus database using the search string 'sport AND education AND society' in the title, abstract and keywords. The search resulted in 1138 information sources, among them 917 with complete abstracts. First information sources were published in 1968 and the production was steady till 1994. After that period, the growth become linear and in 2002 exponential, with a plateau in the period 2005 -2009.The descriptive bibliometric analysis showed that the most productive countries were United States of America, china, United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. The information sources were published in top ranked journals. From the bibliographical mapping and use of meta -synthesis four main and most productive topics emerged: health issues, training & competition, physical activity and education & research forming the basis of the derived taxonomy. A couple of interesting and not quite expected relations between topics become evident from the interface matrix. Taxonomy and topic interface matrix together with term maps present a framework which might be helpful to new researchers in the field trying to get involved in the research as well to those already engaged to foster and guide their future research activities. Additionally the framework gives insights into the current state of sport education and society research and might lead to new ideas to enhance its further development.

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‘Sport & Exercise Pedagogy’. The case for a new integrative sub-discipline in the field of Sport & Exercise Sciences/Kinesiology/Human Movement Sciences

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

The Role of Fitness Professionals in Public Health: A Review of the Literature

The Role of Fitness Professionals in Public Health: A Review of the Literature

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