Welcome to the Waubonsee Community College Kinesiology and Physical Education Library Research Guide. This guide offers resources available for research in Kinesiology and Physical Education. See also the Education, Health Education, & Nursing Research Guides.
The 100 Most Important Sporting Events in American History by 
Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools by
Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools is ideal for those who want to promote healthy, active lifestyles in schools--not just during physical education classes, but throughout the school day. This book presents a holistic perspective on physical activity, exposing teachers to a broad spectrum of curricular and noncurricular opportunities to enhance their pupils'' engagement with physical activity, as well as the tools and resources to do it. Promoting Active Lifestyles in Schools offers research-informed, evidence-based practices (built on health-related studies from around the world) that will help teachers broaden their physical activity promotion in school-based environments.
Exercised by
If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising--not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting.
Learning Through Movement and Active Play in the Early Years by
In this practical resource, Tania Swift provides early years professionals and teachers with advice and tips on incorporating physical activities into all key areas of children's learning. Advancing a movement skills based approach to help teachers deliver learning flexibly, the book identifies how getting children active contributes to their wellbeing and development and improves personal and social skills as well as their cognitive learning. The book is divided into chapters that explore personal, social and emotional development; mathematics and numeracy; literacy, language and communication; knowledge and understanding of the world; expressive arts, design and creative development; and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Drawing on the author's wealth of training experience, each chapter sets out a range of knowledge development, tips, tools and activities that teachers and practitioners can use to support and enhance children's learning and development and examples of good practice from other practitioners and teachers. Full of creative ideas that early years workers and teachers can easily implement, this book will equip readers with the knowledge and confidence to plan for effective learning through movement and active play.
Physical Education Activity Handbook by Working OutTeaching about Social Justice Issues in Physical Education by
Addressing social justice issues in a physical education context is necessary both at the higher education and PK-12 settings. Limited undergraduate and graduate programs educate their students about social justice issues, thus, resulting in licensed teachers who lack the content knowledge, comfort level and pedagogical tools on how to educate students about issues related to social justice.
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education by
Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education explores how learning and teaching in physical education might be improved and how it might become a meaningful component of young people's lives. With its in-depth focus on physical education within contemporary schooling, the book presents a set of professional perspectives that are pivotal for realising high-quality learning and teaching for physical education.
Current Issues in Kinesiology and Sport Pedagogy by
This book provides an overview of current issues being discussed in higher-education kinesiology and sport pedagogy departments, as well as current research being conducted in physical education, physical education preparatory programs, and kinesiology departments more generally. Those who are served valuable content from this publication include kinesiology faculty, and college/university instructors who prepare future physical educators, future coaches, and future allied-health professionals and movement specialists [such as personal trainers, athletic trainers, physical therapists, etcetera].
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body by
The moving body--pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events--holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves--as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps--it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social class, etc.).
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook by National Physical Education Standards by Sample searches for books about Kinesiology and Physical Education:
Kinesiology
Movement education
Physical Education
Physical Fitness
Sports sciences
To BROWSE shelves, look in these LC call number ranges:
GV201-555 Physical Education & Training
GV557-1198.995 Sports
GV706 Sport Sociology & Psychology
GV711 Coaching
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