Friday, June 20, 2014

Call for abstracts: AIESEP seminar

Open call for applications to present at an international seminar in Timisoara, Romania, on sport pedagogy and physical education. Deadline for submissions: 20 June.

About AIESEP
The Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique (AIESEP) - International Association of Physical Education in Higher Education - is an international, non-governmental, non-profit, professional association which aims to promote high quality research worldwide in the areas of physical education, physical activity and sport pedagogy across the lifespan.
Seminar Purpose

The purpose of the 2014 AIESEP Specialist Seminar in Timisoara, Romania, is to bring together experts in sport pedagogy and other specialists involved in outdoor and leisure activities in order to create a space of reflection and discussion on how to adapt to the increasing interest of society in this area.

One of the outcomes of the seminar will be an AIESEP position statement on the potential input of sport pedagogy and physical education teacher education to the development of a body of knowledge useful to practitioners in the outdoor and leisure fields. It is noteworthy that all around the world, a growing number of sport and physical education departments have opened new programmes preparing outdoor and leisure specialists. The seminar is expected to generate research projects and develop and reinforce networks for collaborations between AIESEP and other partners.

Call for papers

Any scientific research, implemented project, or front-line experience which corresponds to the congress theme and sessions may be presented as a poster presentation.

Abstracts of papers must be submitted before 20 June 2014 to aiesepfefstm@e-uvt.ro, and must comply strictly with the editorial instructions. They will be assessed by members of the Scientific Committee who will take into account the relevance and originality of the subject, the clarity of the text and compliance with the specific instructions.

Guiding Questions
Guiding questions for discussion will include, but not be limited to, the following:
  • How do we define "outdoor and leisure physical activities"?
    -Where, what, when, for who, for what?
  • What are the pedagogical competences needed to teach outdoor and leisure physical activities?
  • What are the outcomes of effective outdoor and leisure physical activities?
  • What is the place of outdoor and physical activities in the physical education setting?
  • How best should we prepare educators for outdoor and physical activities?
    -What about physical education teachers?
    -What about physical education teachers' educators?
  • What research data is available?

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