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Boyce, Barbara Ann; Lund, Jackie; O'Neil, Kason – Quest, 2016
Quality preparation of doctoral students is a key to the survival of physical education teacher education. Past research has revealed a shortage of students graduating with a doctoral degree in physical education and a general reluctance of teachers to leave their jobs to pursue an advanced degree. As the number of universities preparing new…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality
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DiGiacinto, Kacey – Quest, 2014
Increasing the involvement of African Americans in the field of kinesiology has been an ever present issue. While many colleges and universities are making attempts to diversify their undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, many are finding this a difficult task due to the lack of minority undergraduate kinesiology majors pursuing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Physical Education, African American Students, Exercise Physiology
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Hodge, Samuel R. – Quest, 2014
In this paper, I engage in discourse centrally located in the ideology of race in the United States of America juxtaposed to social justice with promise for tomorrow in higher education and beyond. I assert that social justice in kinesiology requires that once hired, retaining, securing tenured status, and promoting faculty of color means having…
Descriptors: Physical Education, African American Teachers, Social Justice, Race
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Johnson, Tyler G. – Quest, 2013
The current philosophical paradigm in higher education, where theory transcends practice, consigns physical education to the bottom of a hierarchy of educational content (Kretchmar, 2005). Leaders of physical education teacher education programs are left with three difficult choices: (a) accept physical education's lowly position in the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Educational Philosophy
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Feingold, Ronald S. – Quest, 2013
A case is presented against a data collection system that is intended to provide increased accountability of teachers, professors and the profession. The utilization of some current data collection systems may in fact jeopardize the integrity of the profession's mission and goals. The cause of concern is the use of the easiest form of data…
Descriptors: Accountability, Strategic Planning, Data Collection, Teacher Evaluation
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Fiorentino, Leah Holland – Quest, 2012
Change theories and Organization Development strategies have long followed the problem-solving approach of looking at organizations, identifying the weaknesses and introducing interventions to "stop doing the wrong things." In its simplest form, this approach has been successful in a variety of situations and has a popular following. Consultants…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Scientific Research, Problem Solving, Campuses