Background: Games centred approaches (GCA) such as TGfU, Game Sense, Tactical Games are widely promoted as alternatives to traditional forms of teaching games within physical education. These approaches are promoted on the basis of their capacity to engage students in meaningful and enjoyable physical activity and to promote problem-solving and decision-making. There is now a growing body of em...

The Relationship between Organizational Socialization and Organizational Identity among Physical Education Teachers in Cities of Tehran Province   Sh. Nazari, Ph.D.[1]   This study set out to examine the relationship between organizational socialization and organizational identity among physical education teachers in cities of Tehran province. This applied research had a correlational desig...

The STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Project) Web is an innovative learning environment on the World Wide Web that supports case-based instruction for teacher education. Created by UW–Madison education professor Sharon Derry and colleagues, STEP Web resources aim to help future teachers acquire a scientific language for thinking about how students learn and develop within disciplines; instruct...

Physical activity (PA) during physical education is important for health purposes and for developing physical fitness and movement skills. To examine PA levels and how PA was influenced by environmental and instructor-related characteristics, we assessed children’s activity during 368 lessons taught by 105 physical education specialists in 42 randomly selected schools in Hong Kong. Trained obse...

Physical education contributes in a special way to general education of young people. Therefore, physics lessons may not be restricted to pure physical topics but have to be combined with everyday life phenomena and problems. However, this is not as simple as it may appear at first sight, for the everyday life world does not contain the physical aspects for direct reading. As the pupils and stu...

This paper reports on data mining experiences of the 5th Framework project Data Mining and Decision Support for Business Competitiveness: A European Virtual Enterprise (Sol-Eu-Net). The data mining lessons learned are reported from the following perspectives: application results, business, views of SolEu-Net partners acquired by interview technique, and lessons learned in two particular data mi...