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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"Sports Studies"”.
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Towards a social constructivist game-based learning model: a case of using digital games in sports studies in South Africa
… arose from observations that students in a sport studies classroom were not engaging with one another, as they were organising themselves with peers from the same cultural group in classroom. While literature asserts that student engagement is linked to student success, explicit views of …
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Televisual sports videogames
Over the three decade long history of sports videogame development, design conventions have lead to the emergence of a new sports game genre: the televisual sports videogames. These games, which usually simulate major professional or college sports, look and sound like television, and they use …
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Measurement and evaluation of managerial efficiency in English league football : a stochastic frontier analysis
… available estimation procedures and how previous sports studies have utilised this framework in estimating efficiency. A discussion of the football industry is the focus of Chapter 3, while in Chapter 4 we develop the theoretical model of manager performance. Data and methodological issues are …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… cultural history, cultural anthropology, gender studies, global studies, visual studies and sports studies, and draws on a range of sources, including Lao and French archives, ethnographic writing, newspapers, magazines, cartoons and photography. This blend of textual and visual sources reveals …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… cultural history, cultural anthropology, gender studies, global studies, visual studies and sports studies, and draws on a range of sources, including Lao and French archives, ethnographic writing, newspapers, magazines, cartoons and photography. This blend of textual and visual sources reveals …
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Stereotypes of a black male (student-athlete) misunderstood, and it's still all good: The life of Eric Christopher Garrett
… student-athlete’s salient identities in sport studies research has contributed to constraints placed on their goal of achieving a professional career and/or college degree (Bimper, 2014). The academic reform movements led by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been …
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Effects of sprint interval training on neuromuscular fatigue and ACL injury risks in racquet sports athletes
Racquet sports athletes perform multiple movements per match that are associated with increased ACL injury risk. In addition to this, female athletes are speculated to be as much as eight times more likely to suffer an ACL injury than their male counterparts. Despite this and the worldwide …
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An investigation into the creation of goal scoring opportunities in Women’s International Football; And a comparison to Men’s International Football
Football is the most popular sport in the world, played in over two hundred countries and it is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), who host a World Cup every four year for both men and women. Women’s football is growing in terms of popularity, with this growth …
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An experimental study with college men to determine the effects of teaching method on the ability to learn volleyball skills
<p>It was the purpose of this study to evaluate objectively the method of teaching men’s teams classes in physical education at Stockton College. A well organized instructional schedule consisting of elements from research versus the ‘free play’ method presents the problem in its varying …
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The Role of Place in South Dakota’s High School Sport Value and Patterns of Sport Success
… gain insight into the character of the state’s sportscape. Primary among these is how strongly sense of place influences high school athlete’s perception of sports. Supplemental questions include whether or not success in sports is uniform across the state, and if the importance of sport, the …
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