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Book Reflexivity and Change in Adaptive Physical Activity

Download or read book Reflexivity and Change in Adaptive Physical Activity written by Donna Goodwin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and challenging book argues for the vital importance of critical self-reflexion in the field of adaptive physical activity (APA). It makes a powerful case for embracing discussions of the harm caused by ableist assumptions of the ideal body, maximizing capabilities and perfecting normative-based movement that dominate contemporary discourse in APA, and calls for more critical introspection about what APA is, how it is performed, and what might be needed to bring a collaborative relational ethic to this field. The book focuses on two key themes. Firstly, how ableism as a foundational belief system of APA is present in the undergraduate curriculum, professional preparation, professional practice, and organizational policies. Secondly, how to make the comfortable uncomfortable by openly debating the harm that results from non-reflexive (nondisabled) hubris in APA. The goal is to spark an exchange of ideas among scholars, practitioners, and organizational leaders and therefore to shift the paradigm from one of professional expertism to one that centres disability wisdom holders, bringing a fundamental change to how we perform adaptive physical activity. This book is important, progressive reading for anybody with an interest in adaptive physical activity, adapted physical education, disability sport, inclusive education, the philosophy and ethics of disability and sport, or disability in wider society.

Book Promotion of Physical Activity and Health in the School Setting

Download or read book Promotion of Physical Activity and Health in the School Setting written by Antonio García-Hermoso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Education During the Pandemic

Download or read book Special Education During the Pandemic written by Festus E. Obiakor and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered, and continues to trigger, many changes in K-12 education—some major, like learning remotely from home, and some minor, like sitting farther apart on the school bus. While most students have had routines interrupted, the children perhaps most affected by that disruption are students with special education needs. The challenges we currently face should not undermine what we have accomplished over the last 60 years to protect students with disabilities and those from traditionally marginalized backgrounds. Instead, we must take an honest, proactive and collaborative approach to the challenges laid bare. To do so, we must reckon with the fact that during a pandemic that disproportionately impacted traditionally marginalized communities and people with disabilities, we collectively dropped the ball for students receiving special education services, and we need to consider the continued consequences. Further, we must acknowledge that many students with disabilities have found virtual and remote learning to be more liberating and accessible for their learning strengths, needs, and preferences. This text addresses how we must reconcile disparate realities of the special educational experience during pandemic. Students, parents, teachers, and school officials must align themselves together so that they can provide necessary services and support systems to students with disabilities during unpredictable times. These efforts will help leverage opportunities to disrupt, improve, and ignite educational experiences and opportunities for our children and youth, particularly those with disabilities.

Book Contemporary Vulnerabilities

Download or read book Contemporary Vulnerabilities written by Claire Carter and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contemporary Vulnerabilities centres on critical reflections about vulnerable moments in research committed to social change. Exploring the many vulnerabilities within social science research, this interdisciplinary collection gathers critical stories, reflections, and analyses about innovative methodologies that engage with unconventional and unexpected spaces of research that scholars inhabit and share. The authors encourage us to collaborate within, reflect on, and confront the frictions of inquiry around social change. Towards an aim of contesting the dominance of Eurocentric epistemologies, the collection includes modes of storytelling and examples of knowledge gathering that are often excluded from academic texts in general and methodological texts in particular. Scholars and students interested in research methodologies and social justice inquiry will find provocation and recognition in this volume."--

Book Researching Disability Sport

Download or read book Researching Disability Sport written by Ben Powis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking a new direction for disability sport scholarship, this book explores cutting-edge issues and engages creatively with contemporary approaches to research in this important emerging discipline. Featuring contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars around the world, the book’s wide-ranging chapters offer novel perspectives on the relationship between theory, method, and empiricism in disability sport research and highlight how researchers can be both innovative and informed when entering the field. It also explores methodological considerations when conducting disability sport research, including social, cultural, and political reflections of the research process from disabled and non-disabled academics. This much-needed resource supports disability sport scholars in developing a conceptual grounding in the subject and establishes a space for intersectional accounts of sport and physical activity which challenge homogenous understandings of disability. This book is essential reading for any student or researcher working in disability sport, adapted physical activity, or adapted physical education, and a valuable reference for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, disability studies, cultural studies, the body, or research methodology.

Book Gender  Disability  and Tourism in Africa

Download or read book Gender Disability and Tourism in Africa written by Erisher Woyo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection of gender and disability in the context of tourism. In part, the book foregrounds feminist theorising of intersectionality by examining how gender can overlap with other social identities to contribute to more systemic oppression, domination, discrimination, and marginalisation of certain categories of people. Our point of departure is that disability does not operate in isolation as it is constituted and experienced within an already gendered social and tourism environment. With substantial research on the intersection of gender and tourism on the one hand, and the intersection of disability and tourism on the other hand, the interconnectedness of gender and disability and the implications this has on tourism policy and practice remains understudied. Thus, the book provides a critical lens that helps unpack underlying assumptions about gender and disability while questioning the dominant ideas about gender and disability reproduced through tourism policies and institutional practices in an African context. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Gender Studies, Disability Studies, and Tourism Studies, particularly those with a research interest in Africa.

Book Special Olympics

Download or read book Special Olympics written by Florian Kiuppis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together academic work on Special Olympics and specifically on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in various sport contexts and other areas of life, by ways of both empirical research and theoretically informed papers. Inclusion in sport is a topic that is mostly explored in connection with the participation of people with disabilities in general. In public debates on inclusion and sport in the global society, participation is predominantly discussed in a normative way, e.g., in connection with the campaign The Revolution is Inclusion by Special Olympics, describing it as an “all-out effort to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities”. With this international collection, the authors seek to contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of Special Olympics in Context of Inclusion Debates and establish a foundation for future scholarship. The chapters in this book can contribute to a new research agenda on Special Olympics, particularly participatory approaches. The chapters in this book were originally published in Sport in Society.

Book Adapted Physical Activity from Theory to Application

Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity from Theory to Application written by International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity Staff and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Handbook of Adapted Physical Education

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Adapted Physical Education written by Justin A. Haegele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook represents the first comprehensive and evidence-based review of theory, research, and practice in the field of adapted physical education (APE). Exploring philosophical and foundational aspects of APE, the book outlines the main conceptual frameworks informing research and teaching in this area, and presents important material that will help shape best practice and future research. Written by world-leading researchers, the book introduces the key themes in APE, such as historical perspectives on disability, disability and the law, language, and measurement. It examines the most significant theoretical frameworks for understanding APE, from embodiment and social cognitive theory to occupational socialization, and surveys current debates and practical issues in APE, such as teacher training, the use of technology, and physical inactivity and health. Acknowledging the importance of the voices of children, parents and peers, the book also explores research methods and paradigms in APE, with each chapter including directions for further research. Offering an unprecedented wealth of material, the Routledge Handbook of Adapted Physical Education is an essential reference for advanced students, researchers and scholars working in APE, and useful reading for anybody with an interest in disability, physical education, sports coaching, movement science or youth sport.

Book Adapted Physical Activity

Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity written by Kyonosuke Yabe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on physical education and sports for persons with disabilities are an interdisciplinary domain in which theory and practice are closely intertwined. In fact, one of the primary objectives of professionals in this field is to eliminate the existing separation between the theoretical and practical aspects of their work. This volume, consisting of selected papers presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity, was published with the aim of providing researchers and practitioners with insights into each other's work. The 39 contributions in this book deal with a wide range of themes including the health and fitness of people with disabilities, innovative sports teaching methods, biofeedback training and motor control, the medical aspects of rehabilitation, and physical activity programs for the elderly.

Book Adapted Physical Activity Across the Life Span

Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity Across the Life Span written by Carol Leitschuh and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to delivering quality adapted physical activity for all ages. Addresses how the work of educators and clinical professionals intersects in facilitating physical activity for health and well-being. Follows IDEA and USDHHS guidelines. Instructor ancillaries.

Book Adapted Physical Activity

Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity written by Robert D. Steadward and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook examines adapted physical activity from across the disciplinary spectrum. From the history of adapted physical education to current practices in rehabilitative medicine, from working with children with emotional disabilities to developing care plans for adults with movement limitations, this collection surveys issues and helps practitioners plan sensible, well-grounded programs. (Midwest).

Book International Perspectives on Adapted Physical Activity

Download or read book International Perspectives on Adapted Physical Activity written by International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activi and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Characterization and Assessment of Change in Adaptive and Maladaptive Exercise  and Total Objectively Measured Physical Activity Over a 12 Week CBT Treatment for Individuals with Transdiagnostic Binge Eating and Restrictive Eating

Download or read book Characterization and Assessment of Change in Adaptive and Maladaptive Exercise and Total Objectively Measured Physical Activity Over a 12 Week CBT Treatment for Individuals with Transdiagnostic Binge Eating and Restrictive Eating written by Olivia Brooke Wons and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maladaptive exercise (e.g., compensatory and/or driven exercise) is a common eating disorder (ED) behavior yet, some individuals with EDs only engage in adaptive exercise (e.g., non-compensatory or driven exercise). Historically, cognitive behavioral therapy for EDs (CBT-E) targets reducing maladaptive exercise but does not address adaptive exercise. Thus, research is limited on how CBT-E impacts both adaptive and maladaptive exercise in individuals with EDs. The current study sought to characterize and examine how assessor-rated adaptive and maladaptive exercise and objectively measured physical activity changed over a 12-week CBT-E treatment among adults with transdiagnostic binge eating and restrictive eating (N = 30) that did and did not engage in maladaptive exercise at the start of treatment (n=13 non-maladaptive exercise group and n=17 maladaptive exercise group). Adaptive and maladaptive exercise were measured via the Eating Disorder Examination Interview and objectively measured physical activity (e.g., step count and minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)) was measured via a wrist-worn fitness tracker before and after treatment. The amount of overall adaptive exercise did not significantly change for both groups over treatment, but the overall amount of maladaptive exercise significantly decreased over treatment for those in the maladaptive exercise group. Step count did not significantly change over treatment for both groups. Individuals in the non-maladaptive exercise group demonstrated a significant increase in minutes of MVPA over treatment. Step count and minutes of MVPA increases were not associated with ED symptom reduction over treatment for both groups. Both groups endorsed they perceived the fitness tracker influenced them to engage in physical activity, not binge eat, and not restrict food intake. These results suggest that clinicians that wish to significantly increase the amount of adaptive physical activity, step count, or minutes of MVPA in patients with transdiagnostic binge eating may need to take on supplemental treatment approaches in addition to CBT-E or implement augmentations to traditional CBT-E treatment to meet physical activity related goal.

Book Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly

Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching

Download or read book Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching written by Heather Piper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on sports coaching and sports teaching and how touching young sports participants has been redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches are constrained by a framework of regulations and guidelines which create anxiety, and many coaches now question the risks and benefits of their continuing involvement. The book includes some data from a recently completed ESRC project: (‘Hands-off’ sports coaching: the politics of touch) and builds on previous ESRC research (Touchlines – the problematic of touching between children and professionals) which illuminated tensions in touching behaviours between professionals and children in education and care settings. It considers the negative effects of particular understandings of risk and moral panic around touching and related behaviours where adults, children and young people interact, and makes a significant contribution to critical discussions around related practice, pedagogy, politics, and policy. While focussed on sports coaching and teaching, it is germane to the situation of all those acting in loco parentis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport Education and Society.

Book Climate Change 2022     Impacts  Adaptation and Vulnerability

Download or read book Climate Change 2022 Impacts Adaptation and Vulnerability written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 3070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report recognizes the interactions of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and integrates across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences. It emphasizes how efforts in adaptation and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions can come together in a process called climate resilient development, which enables a liveable future for biodiversity and humankind. The IPCC is the leading body for assessing climate change science. IPCC reports are produced in comprehensive, objective and transparent ways, ensuring they reflect the full range of views in the scientific literature. Novel elements include focused topical assessments, and an atlas presenting observed climate change impacts and future risks from global to regional scales. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.