JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance articles from March 2000

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance archives from March 2000

Exercise-Induced Asthma.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... While asthma is a serious health problem in the U.S., many asthmatics pursue physically active, even professionally athletic, lifestyles despite their condition. Yet exercise often aggravates the bronchial difficulties that characterize asthma,...

Healthy Lives, Longer Lives.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... For those who doubt the long-term negative effects of smoking, eating improperly, avoiding exercise, and other heart-disease risk factors, researchers have recently quantified the benefits of healthy living. According to the Journal of the...

Hepatitis and the Athlete.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently revised its policy statement concerning transmission of HIV between athletes to include another blood-borne pathogen: hepatitis. The Academy feels that the same conditions that have the potential...

A Dearth of Dance Instruction.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Though efforts have been made of late to preserve general arts instruction for American children, it seems that dance is becoming an increasingly esoteric subject in many U.S. schools, according to the National Assessment of Educational...

National Employee Health and Fitness Day.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The National Association of Governors' Councils on Physical Fitness and Sports (NAGCPFS) has announced that the 12th annual National Employee Health and Fitness Day (NEHF) will be observed this May 17. Employees and employers alike have both a...

AAHPERD Professionals in the 21st Century: Bouncing Balls or Balancing Lives.
March 1, 2000... "Quality of life" is a phrase that gained special significance in the latter part of the 20th century, as costs of health-care services exceeded 10 percent of the gross national product and managed-care providers scrambled to control...

Tracking Physical Activity from Childhood to Adolescence.
March 1, 2000... Much concern has been expressed about the current and future health and fitness status of American children. Corbin and Pangrazi (1992) reported that American youths on average were less fit than those of other countries. Yet the majority of...

Title IX and Contact Sports.
March 1, 2000... Heather S. Mercer v. Duke University and Fred Goldsmith United States Court of Appeals, July 12, 1999 190 F.3d 643 Heather Sue Mercer was an all-state football kicker at Yorktown Heights High School in Yorktown Heights, New York. After...

In which department or college of a university should sport studies (sport management, sport administration, etc.) be taught?
March 1, 2000... I firmly believe that this area of study should be taught in the departments of human performance, sport and leisure studies, or sports management, and not in schools of business. Here in the Department of Human Performance, Sport and Leisure...

Using Computers for Qualitative Analysis of Movement.
March 1, 2000... Sarah, a high school freshman, shoots a free throw and misses wide right and short. She turns to her coach and asks, "What am I doing wrong?" Jim, an avid golfer, slices a 7-iron into the woods and mumbles in disgust, "Where did that come...

How Safe Is Your Playground?
March 1, 2000... Introduction The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that over 200,000 children are injured annually on our nation's playgrounds, all of them seriously enough to require emergency-room care (Hudson, Mack, & Thompson, 1999). Even...

Risk Factor One: Supervision on a Safe Playground.
March 1, 2000... In 1999, the National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) began the first analysis of a national survey of childcare-center, school, and park playgrounds across the United Sates. Their report, How Safe are America's Playgrounds? (Hudson, Mack,...

Risk Factor Two: Age-Appropriate Design of Safe Playgrounds.
March 1, 2000... The phrase "developmentally appropriate" or "age-appropriate" is included in the mission statements of most educational agencies and schools today (e.g., National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1997). Age-appropriate curricula...

Matching Instructional Tasks to Learner Ability: The Inclusion Style of Teaching.
March 1, 2000... In Mr. Weaver's third-grade physical education class, students begin their fitness routine immediately upon entering the gymnasium. All students do the same exercises, in the same way and at the same time. For example, when students perform...

Time-Out and Overcorrection: A Comparison of Their Application in Physical Education.
March 1, 2000... Since physical education classes are typically large and take place in relatively unstructured environments, it is common for inappropriate behaviors to occur. For this reason, physical educators need to have a variety of effective techniques...

Doctoral Programs: How to Choose, Apply, Survive, and Thrive.
March 1, 2000... Three college friends--an elementary physical educator, a fitness club manager, and a district physical education director--meet for coffee ten years after graduation. They are well-established professionals with masters degrees, but they yearn...

Learning from Latina Students: Modern Dance Meets Salsa and Merengue.
March 1, 2000... The students at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York are almost exclusively Latino (52 percent) and African American (41 percent). Most are non-traditional students in their mid-20s to their mid-40s. Many of them are...

Teacher-Student Interaction: An Exploration of Gender Differences in Elementary Physical Education.
March 1, 2000... An Exploration of Gender Differences in Elementary Physical Education The effects of gender differences and gender bias within educational settings have long been researched (AAUW Report, 1992; Carelli, 1988; Coakley & White, 1992; Kahle,...

Advocacy: Changing Our Professional Behaviors.
March 1, 2000... In response to the declining status of physical education in schools, there has been a renewed focus on promoting advocacy among HPERD members. In February 1998, the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance...