A Generative Synthesis for Kinesiology: Lessons from History and Visions for the Future

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal A. Lawson ◽  
R. Scott Kretchmar
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
First Order ◽  
Revisionist History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Automatic Pilot

Debates-as-battles have characterized the histories of physical education and kinesiology. This colorful part of the field’s history was characterized by leaders’ narrow, rigid views, and it paved the way for divisiveness, excessive specialization, and fragmentation. Today’s challenge is to seek common purpose via stewardship-oriented dialogue, and it requires a return to first order questions regarding purposes, ethics, values, moral imperatives, and social responsibilities. These questions are especially timely insofar as kinesiology risks running on a kind of automatic pilot, seemingly driven by faculty self-interests and buffered from consequential changes in university environments and societal contexts. A revisionist history of kinesiology’s origins and development suggests that it can be refashioned as a helping discipline, one that combines rigor, relevance, and altruism. It gives rise to generative questions regarding what a 21st century discipline prioritizes and does, and it opens opportunity pathways for crossing boundaries and bridging divides. Three sets of conclusions illuminate unrealized possibilities for a vibrant, holistic kinesiology—a renewed discipline that is fit for purpose in 21st century contexts.

History of Adapted Physical Education: Priorities in Professional Preparation

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Winnick
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Adapted Physical Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This presentation traces and reviews past and contemporary concerns, issues, or priorities relating to professional preparation with special emphasis on the identification of people who have had a significant impact upon professional preparation, and the graduates of our programs, who will provide leadership in the future.

scholarly journals Drama in Ho Chi Minh City literature and art life

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Thuy Trung Luu
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Early Time ◽  
High Time ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

In the history of Vietnamese drama, Saigon was one of the places absorbing Western drama from the early time. Although drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City didn’t develop in a smooth and straight way, it was a continuous and unbroken process. This process brought in strong development of drama in Ho Chi Minh city in two decades of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. However, in recent years, drama in Ho Chi Minh City seems to proceed slowly, which reflects some irrational aspects from drama script, performance art to performance operation. Therefore, it’s high time to review the whole history of drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City to collect experiences for the steady development of drama in this City in the future.

Searching for Balance: A Historian’s View of the Fractured World of Kinesiology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Patricia Vertinsky
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Educator

In this essay, I drew upon the perspectives of Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history” in reflecting upon the history of kinesiology and the influences that led to my own academic career in kinesiology. I have outlined how my disciplinary training as a physical educator and educational historian provided the resources to propel my continuing inquiry into the inter- and cross-disciplinary (and intrinsically entangled) nature of kinesiology. Gender, nationality, training, location, and timing all had their influences on my education and job opportunities and upon building toward a career in a research university where physical education and kinesiology, by design and accident, increasingly separated from one another. From the perspective of a sport historian, I suggest that the language and pursuit of balance might be applied productively to thinking about the future of kinesiology. Sport historians can help in this mission by training a critical lens upon the ongoing traffic between nature and culture and the deep sociocultural situatedness of the science and technology practices used in kinesiology teaching and research in the 21st century. In essence, they can illuminate the historical context of the tools that now frame kinesiology’s questions and the political context in which their answers emerge.

scholarly journals SAPIENS A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND: KILAS BALIK EVOLUSI MANUSIA DAN TANTANGAN KE DEPAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
V. L. Sinta Herindrasti
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Yuval Noah Harari is a history professor of Israeli births who has written three books of best-Seller namely sapiens A Brief History of Humankind (2011), the future Homo Deus of Mankind (2015) and 21 Lessons for the 21st century (2018). If the first book tells of human life in the past, the second book is exploring the human being of the future, and then the last book sees human nature now. Sapiens first published in Hebrew in 2011 and later published in English in 2014.

Nurturing Curiosity Learning Through STEM in Physical Education in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Thembelihle Gondo ◽  
Jenet Jean Mudekunye
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) develop deep mathematical and scientific underpinnings students need in the 21st-century workforce. The future of many countries lies in lifetime engagement with STEM education. STEM is an expressive curriculum pertinent to learners and develops reasoning, investigative, and creative skills. Modern lives that affect the economy are transformed through innovations. Economic ambitions can be driven through supporting technological creativity solutions for economic competitiveness. Children see STEM as a tool that helps them understand their world and critically think about intentionally incorporating different subjects across existing curriculum. This paper looks at the possibility of nurturing curiosity in physical education through STEM in Zimbabwe. The paper uses library methodology approach. The article proposes appropriate instruction for underprepared workforce through workshops and staff development. Proficiency thinking, problem-solving, and engineering skills exposure are also advocated for.

What happened to critical pedagogy in physical education? An analysis of key critical work in the field

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1128-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Cultural Materialism ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Pragmatism

Despite a long history of critical scholarship in physical education (PE), current research continues to show that PE is an exclusionary and marginalising space for many students. Hawkins suggests that philosophical pragmatism, cultural materialism, and health concerns are driving the field, to the extent that the foundations of PE are in jeopardy, and even in ‘crisis’. These trends are at odds with poststructuralist approaches to the field, and with (continued) calls for critical pedagogical practice. In this article, I reflect on these issues and consider four different approaches to critical pedagogy in the work of: Richard Tinning; Laura Azzarito; my own work with a teacher called Dan; and Kim Oliver and David Kirk. Drawing on this scholarship, I argue that critical practice is needed now more than ever, and I offer some thoughts about the future of this work.

scholarly journals Motor behavior as a scientific field: A view from the start of the 21st Century

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane E. Clark ◽  
Marcio A. Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Motor Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Questions

At the start of the 21st century, the study of motor behavior is a mature and vibrant scientific field. In this paper, we describe the development of this field by tracing the history of its sub-areas: motor control, motor learning, and motor development. Our understanding of how humans control and coordinate their multi-segmented body in an ever changing environment across the lifespan has grown and matured enormously over the last 100 years. Today, these three sub-areas are converging as our scientific questions build upon the foundations laid by scientists in each of these areas. We end our paper by considering the future in this field and the challenges facing motor behavior scientists in this new century.    

History of Supercomputing and Supercomputer Centers

2015 ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Cook ◽  
Neha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Top500 List

This chapter begins with the definition of supercomputers and shifts to how the supercomputers have evolved since the 1930s. Supercomputing need is stressed, including issues in time and cost of resources currently faced by the researchers. The chapter transitions to an overview of the supercomputing era with a small biography of Seymour Cray. The timeline of Cray's history and various Cray inventions are discussed. The works of Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, and NEC are clearly demonstrated. A section on Beowulfs and S1 supercomputers is provided. A discussion on applications of supercomputing in healthcare and how Dell is emerging in its supercomputing abilities in 21st century are cohesively explained. The focus is shifted to the petaflop computing in the 21st century, current trends in supercomputing, and the future of supercomputing. The details of some of the global supercomputing centers in the Top500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world are also provided.

scholarly journals Egypt's cultural heritage in conflict situations: examination of past and present impact

2019 ◽  
pp. 521-550
Author(s):  
Nevine Nizar Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Illegal Activities

In recent decades, the remarkable cultural heritage of Egypt has been threatened by loss or damage due to many conflict situations. These have led to looting, smuggling, vandalism, encroachment, illegal activities, and many more threats which put the fate of Egypt’s heritage in jeopardy of disappearance and demolition. The loss of Egyptian heritage is not only a loss of history, but of cultural identity, memory and existence. These types of threats are by no means a recent phenomenon, but have been going on for centuries. This paper presents a research into the history of Egyptian heritage in times of conflict especially in the 19th and 20th centuries. Furthermore, it also examines the severe crisis that endangered Egyptian heritage in the 21st century, notably the aftermath of the 2011 Revolution and the subsequent, widespread pillaging of archeological sites and museums. These recent conflicts highlighted concerns about the future of Egyptian antiquities and their protection, and raised serious concerns about how to protect Egyptian patrimony and preserve the collective cultural memory of Egypt. A comprehensive, comparative analysis of Egyptian and international legislation pertraining to cultural heritage protection has been conducted in order to examine its efficiency in protecting Egypt’s cultural heritage.

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