June 17 2020 The AIESEP specialist seminar ‘Future Directions in PE Assessment’ was held from October 18-20 2018, at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The seminar aimed to bring together leading scholars in the field to present and discuss ‘evidence-informed’ views on various topics around physical education assessment. It brought together
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
A group of researchers from the AIESEP family have lately been working on the BMC-EU project (Basic Motor Competencies in Europe; PIs: Erin Gerlach & Jeffrey Sallen [Potsdam, Germany], Christian Herrmann [Basel, Switzerland] & Claude Scheuer [Luxembourg]) in a network of 14 partners from eleven European countries. The network was mainly established during AIESEP conferences
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS 2 East) scheme intended to start October 2019. The project will be based in the School of Sport, Health and Outdoor Education at University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Carmarthen Campus) in collaboration with The Football Association of Wales Trust.
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
