Published in conjunction with SHAPE America! Focusing on the unique nature of qualitative methods within kinesiology settings, Qualitative Research and Evaluation in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy guides graduate students and early career researchers through designing, conducting, and reporting of qualitative research studies with specific references to the challenges and possibilities of the field. Written by qualitative researchers in the fields of physical education and activity, this practical text begins with an overview of qualitative methods before advancing into planning for, collecting, and analyzing qualitative data. The final sections highlight specific qualitative methods applications in physical education and activity before discussing future directions and emerging applications of qualitative research. Key Features: - A history of qualitative research is provided in Chapters 1 and 2, followed by several chapters that introduce a variety of contemporary qualitative research approaches. - Experts in the field author each of the chapters, sharing their prior experience using qualitative approaches - Examples, tools, and insights throughout provide readers with helpful guidance in conducting qualitative research - Critical thinking questions and activities at the end of each chapter provide resources for class discussion and promote reflection among readers - Navigate eBook access (included with the printed text) includes the digital text enhanced with 6 author created videos, chapter review slides, and more.

Thousands of social science results indicate that a healthy, stable and happy marriage is an optimal relationship for the psychological, emotional and physical well being of adults and children. Functional families are one of the strongest influences on the growth of human competence, and mental and emotional well being. At a time when marriage and family are under constant siege, Kevin Andrews' thoroughly researched book provides a timely and telling case for making the strengthening of these essential bedrocks of a healthy society a number one priority. Kevin Andrews highlights those factors which social scientists from all over the world believe benefit or detract from marital success, and examines the ways in which individuals, communities and governments can help to create more successful marital unions.

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A solution to all of life’ s imponderable questions in One Answer.

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education is the ideal resource for understanding and integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies into the structure of a physical education program, alongside physical activity and skill development goals. This text should be incorporated as a key resource to guide physical education teacher education courses specifically focused on social and emotional learning while also providing supplemental readings for courses related to physical education curriculum, instruction, assessment, and/or models-based practice. Similarly, practicing physical education teachers who are interested in developing a stronger focus on SEL in their teaching will find that the book provides a comprehensive resource to guide their professional learning and practice.

"An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before 'development.'"--"The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands"

"He also is in love with the country . . . but he sees the other side of that dazzling medal or moon. . . . If you want some truth about Greece, here it is."--Louis MacNeice, "The Observer"

"One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks."--E. R. Dodds

In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented areas during Greece's postwar civil war--and before the advent of tourism, industrialization, or easy communications--brought Andrews into immediate contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these lives took shape in "The Flight of Ikaros," first published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is pleased to return to print this modern travel classic.

Kevin Andrews (1924-1989) was a writer and archaeologist. He wrote many books about Greece, of which he became a citizen in 1975.