Establishing a successful physical activity program to recruit and retain women     

Clare Hanlon  Tony Morris  Susan Nabbs 《Sport Management Review》2010,13(3):269-282

Increasingly, health organisations and governing bodies in developed countries are paying serious attention to the problem of adult inactivity. Many of the programs designed to increase levels of activity, particularly amongst target populations, such as women, have not been systematically assessed for their effectiveness in recruiting women and helping them maintain activity levels. The purpose of this study was to determine what attracted and sustained women to participate in physical activity programs. Responses from a survey to sport and recreation program providers identified 64 successful programs in the state of Victoria, Australia. Eight of these programs were purposively selected for case study analysis. Data was collected from a focus group with women participants from each of these eight programs. Six core themes emerged from inductive content analysis of the focus groups. The most frequent participant responses related to the social aspects of the exercise environment. Women in the focus groups valued instructor professionalism and instructors’ technical knowledge, however, it was their awareness and sensitivity that participants appreciated most. This exploratory study is important because it reflects the voices of women talking about what made physical activity programs successful for them. The study raises critical questions that should be examined systematically through large-scale survey research and field-based intervention studies, which in turn should stimulate program development to encourage women in physical activity.  相似文献   

Beyond instructional systems: A performance technology degree     

Clare Ruckdeschel  Michael Yarter  Mary Ann Rivecdo  Ivan Cortes  Mark S. Cookson 《Performance Improvement》1998,37(3):22-26

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Jeans and their Fashionable Meanings: Revisiting Beverly Gordon's Cultural Conceptual Framework     

Clare Sauro  Joseph H. Hancock II 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2023,46(1):55-67

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Bon jour! Guten Morgan! Ciao! Hello! Annyonghasimnikka! Shalom! Merhaba! Buenos Dias!     

Clare Elizabeth Carey 《Performance Improvement》1999,38(3):6-7

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International HPT: Rx for culture shock     

Clare Elizabeth Carey 《Performance Improvement》1999,38(5):49-54

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The author as agent of information policy: The relationship between economic and moral rights in copyright     

Margaret Ann Wilkinson  Natasha Gerolami 《Government Information Quarterly》2009

A historical and theoretical analysis of the copyright environment demonstrates that both the economic rights associated with copyright and the moral rights often associated with copyright perform social functions. The latter have not been as universally embraced or adopted as the former. The lack of enthusiasm for moral rights is argued to be because the social utility of this aspect of the copyright regime has gone largely unrecognized. In fact, moral rights ensure that the information needs of the public are being met because they enhance the ability to assess the authority and reliability of information. While historically this has not been as important as enhancing the supply of information, a function performed by the economic rights of copyright, in the context of the new information environment, the role played by moral rights is becoming increasingly important. Our thesis also defines the appropriate scope of moral rights protection in copyright.  相似文献   

A tale of two women leaders: Diversity policies and practices in enterprise universities     

Jane Wilkinson 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2009,36(2):39-54

This paper explores the ways in which senior female academics’ leadership practices are informed and negotiated in relation to a multiplicity of fields. As part of the shift in the logics of practice underpinning the Australian academic terrain, there has been a movement from the implementation of equity policies to that of diversity in relation to the employment of academic staff, characterised by neoliberal discourses of new public management which favour the production of the individualistic, entrepreneurial academic identity as opposed to notions of collectivity and the public good. However, diversity policies are not the sole texts that inform the ways in which many women leaders operate, nor the most important in guiding the practices they produce. Drawing on a larger study of representations of women’s leadership in the media and academia, this paper examines how two leading female academics drew upon a range of logics of practices within the different fields of academia, feminism and Indigenous rights to inform their leadership practices. In so doing, the women contested the emergent logic of practice underpinning the contemporary Australian academic field. Such contestation can be considered one of the “subaltern” consequences of policy regimes and forms an integral part of policy fields.  相似文献   

R. Mulder &; P. Sloane,eds, New Approaches to Vocational Education in Europe     

Clare Delany 《Vocations and Learning》2010,3(1):95-97

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The validity and inter-device variability of the Apple Watch™ for measuring maximal heart rate     

Grant Abt  James Bray  Amanda Clare Benson 《Journal of sports sciences》2018,36(13):1447-1452

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Editorial     

Jane Wilkinson 《Journal of educational administration and history》2018,50(3):131-132

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