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JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD) is a monthly journal owned and published since 1896 by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (AAHPERD) headquartered in Reston, Va. JOPERD is AAHPERD's largest, most frequently published, and most wide-ranging periodical. It is AAHPERD's cornerstone journal, reaching 12,000+ members and subscribers, providing information on a variety of health, physical education, recreation and dance issues. Subscribers are professionals supporting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, sport and education—all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle. The region covered by this journal is the US.Recent issues of JOPERD have included articles on teaching strategies, fitness, legal issues, assessment, dancing, teacher education, adapted physical education, leisure for older adults, the use of technology, and ethics and gender equity in sports and physical education. In January 2002, JOPERD featured an article on the benefits of physical exercise in reducing breast cancer risk. In April 2007, JOPERD ran a series of articles on obesity, including the mental aspects of obesity, early childhood obesity intervention and online sources of information on the epidemic. In October 2009, JOPERD included an article on the gender gap in youth sports, particularly in urban communities. This was based on the results of Go Out and Play: Youth Sports in America, a comprehensive study based on two nationwide surveys of youth sports participation. Michael T. Shoemaker is the Editor, and Laura Stecker is the Associate Editor. Contributing editors are Derrick Mears, Ferman Konukman, Thomas H. Sawyer and Susan F. Ayers.
Articles from Vol. 65, No. 2, February
Cherokee Nation Youth Fitness Camp: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Native American Youth
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The camp teaches that health and wellness is a holistic concept involving physical fitness, cultural awareness, social and mental health, environmental knowledge, and spiritual and inner strength. During the summer months, when school is far from thought,...
Closing the Teacher-Student Perception Gap
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How often do physical education instructors hear students complain that their grades in an activity class were inappropriate? Most instructors who evaluate psychomotor skills subjectively probably hear it too often! Evaluating performance is an integral...
Dancing the Body: Women and Dance Performance
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Dance movement that emerges from women's experiences helps destroy assumptions and social constraints imposed on how we value our bodies and how we use them to create and communicate. Dance, a means of communication that is "grounded in the lived body"...
Diagnosing Motor Skills - a Practical Approach
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This article describes a cost-effective and practical approach to motor skill analysis by using a criteria sheet to identify and code errors of selected skill performance. In motor skill instruction, offering feedback is crucial to correct errors and...
Encouraging Male Participation in Dance
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Rather than teaching boys that aggression is their only movement option, educators can teach all students to assert their bodies through the movement in time and space and a confident expression of ideas through dance. At the 1991 National Dance Association...
Facing Gender Issues across the Curriculum
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Dance educators can be a vital part of making dance education serve all of us better by taking a fresh and critical look at ourselves through the lens of gender. The term "dance" is usually associated with girls and feminine qualities by a significant...
Fitness/exercise Science Internships: How to Ensure Success
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These authors identify common problems that occur in internships and propose viable solutions. Increased interest in health, fitness, and wellness during the past two decades has spawned new careers for many individuals who traditionally would have...
Gender Issues in Dance Education
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Dance education is not immune to gender problems that exist in society; the scarcity of male students, dancers' body and self-esteem issues, and student choreographies that echo media stereotypes should convince us of this. A teacher of American social...
Gender Issues in Dance History Pedagogy
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By framing dance history studies as an inquiry into the cultural construction of gender, teachers can enable students to reflect on their studio and stage practices in the larger contexts of their lives and their culture. In his book Beyond the Culture...
How 'Wild Things' Tamed Gender Distinctions
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This article, offered to teachers who have suspected that children's gender inhibitions impede learning in coeducational settings, describes how boys and girls found a common ground in an Australian dance education program. In a dance education program...
JOPERD Readership Survey Yields Positive Results
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To better understand the impact of JOPERD, the JOPERD Editorial Board recently completed a readership survey. A total of 1,080 questionnaires were sent, in three rounds of 360, to randomly selected JOPERD readers over a six-month period. A total of 110...
Reaching out with Internet
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Internet is a cooperative of educational, commercial, and military computer networks that facilitate the exchange of data between networks. Imagine you are working on a collaborative research project with a colleague from another institution. After...
The Physical Education Hall of Shame
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Because physical educators are held accountable for providing developmentally appropriate and educationally sound programs (Grineski, 1992; Petersen, 1992; Wikgren, 1992), we should identify practices in physical education which persist but which are...
Using the Power of West African Dance to Combat Gender Issues
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In the West African societies, aesthetic standards that govern body size and shape are more accepting of individual variation and, consequently, are more embracing. By incorporating West African aesthetics into modern dance classes, body size and shape...
Wax on, Wax Off: Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Motor Skill Instruction
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Transforming subject matter and presenting it to students in comprehensible forms requires the use of alternative strategies such as analogies, metaphors, examples, demonstrations, and simulations. In the movie The Karate Kid, Pat Morita portrays Mr....
What Will Be the Impact of Current Educational Reforms on Health and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century?
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When attempting to predict the ramifications of current educational reform efforts on the future of health education and physical education programs, one could be very pessimistic. Site-based management, curriculum integration, generalization, state...
