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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Crane, Jeff; Temple, Viviene – European Physical Education Review, 2015
Leisure constraints theory was used as a framework to systematically review factors associated with dropout of organized sport among children and adolescents. Keyword searches for the population, context and construct of interest (i.e. dropout) identified articles from the entire contents of the following databases: Academic Search Complete, ERIC,…
Descriptors: Dropout Research, Dropout Characteristics, Children, Participant Characteristics
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Stolz, Steven; Pill, Shane – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Over 30 years ago the original teaching games for understanding (TGfU) proposition was published in a special edition of the Bulletin of Physical Education (Bunker and Thorpe, 1982). In that time TGfU has attracted significant attention from a theoretical and pedagogical perspective as an improved approach to games and sport teaching in physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Athletics
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Arias-Estero, José; Castejón, Francisco – European Physical Education Review, 2014
The aim was to analyse the features concerning the applicational purpose and strategy of the most common instruments used to assess game tactics both in Physical Education (PE) and in extra-curricular sport contexts. The review focused on two instruments: the Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI) and the Team Sport Assessment Procedure…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Extracurricular Activities, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
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Wilkinson, Shaun; Littlefair, David; Barlow-Meade, Linda – European Physical Education Review, 2013
In sport, schools and physical education (PE) ability has invariably been understood as an inherent and relatively immutable capacity, amendable to varying degrees by interventions such as training regimes and education. Differences in achievement are assumed to be an inevitable consequence of natural variations in ability and an indication of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ability, Student Attitudes
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Stolz, Steven – European Physical Education Review, 2013
Physical education has long suffered low status within educational institutions, due to the assumption that practical knowledge or 'knowing how' is somehow set apart from cognitive development and anti-intellectual. This dualistic conception of mind and body is challenged using Ryle's conceptual account of 'intelligent…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Philosophy, Cognitive Development, Intelligence