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The Department of Physical Education at West Point has a vacancy for an instructor of our Military Movement Course. Military Movement is an applied gymnastics course – basic tumbling, vaulting, trampoline, horizontal bar, vertical rope climbing, horizontal rope climbing, rock climbing, and Indoor Obstacle Course Test. A Master’s degree in Physical Education or related field

The Internationalization Committee of AIESEP would like to announce the award winner for the Conference at Adelphi University, NYC in June 2019: Luiza Lana Gonçalves, University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. On behalf of the AIESEP Board we would like to congratulate Luiza. We look forward to meeting her and hearing her presentation at

UNESCO has announced the creation of a Chair on Physical Activity and Health in Educational Settings. The Chair was awarded to the University of Basel, Switzerland. Chairholder is Uwe Pühse. Cheryl Walter of Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, has been appointed Co-Chair. The purpose of the Chair is to promote an integrated system of research,

The Physical Education Teachers Association of Turkey (TUBED) will sponsor the 10th International Physical Education and Sports Education Congress to be held on 31 October – 3 November 2019. The theme for the Congress is “Active and Happy Kids”. We look forward to meeting with researchers from different universities, scholars who are able to reflect

The Game Sense teaching and coaching approach is a game-based and player-centered sport teaching pedagogy that foregrounds the development of “thinking players” (Australian Sports Commission 1996; den Duyn 1997). Unlike the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model, which involves a linear, six-step tactical- technical process (Bunker and Thorpe 1982; Thorpe, Bunker and Almond 1984), the

The inaugural Health and Physical Literacy Summit 2020 will take place at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham (Alabama) – The Wynfrey Hotel February 11-14, 2020 and we are now accepting program proposals! The proposal submission deadline is June 5th, 2019. To learn more, or to submit a proposal, visit www.asahperd.org Please share this information with your

Colum Cronin is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Coaching at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He was nominated for the young scholar award by Professor Kathleen Armour who supervised Colum’s doctorate in education at the University of Birmingham, in 2016. Colum’s thesis was titled “Being a Youth Performance Coach: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological

Katharina Ptack is a doctoral researcher at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She submitted her PhD at the University of Bayreuth with the title “An intervention study concerning the topic health. Evaluation of a cooperative planning process in the Health.edu study.” Katharina’s research interests are in the field of empirical school sport and PE