This thesis investigates the role of socio-cultural-historical environmental constraints influencing the development of association football expertise and skill in Brazilian players. Only a small number of studies in the ...

Normative discourses of disability, gender and human development inevitably contour a young person’s physical education and sport experience. If schooling is to meet the needs and interests of all, then it would seem ...

Performance measurement is a prevalent and accepted management technique used by governments around the world and is an important dimension of New Zealand sport policy. Drawing from performance management and measurement ...

Understanding the factors that will lead individuals to increase and maintain their levels of physical activity is a key area of investigation within exercise psychology. Research has suggested that the affective responses ...

To date, only three gay male athletes have ever come out publicly during their professional sporting career in team sports. This reflects the pervasiveness of homophobia in sport and its power to silence and render invisible ...

Inclusion of students with impairments in New Zealand (NZ) dance education needs attention. The aim of this research is to explore how curriculum can better ensure inclusion of all children into dance education. Data is ...

Obesity discourses are shaping us. Amidst an avowed obesity ‘epidemic’, we are all considered at-risk, hailed to understand ourselves as such, and persuaded that we have the capability to author our bodies in a desired/required ...

New Zealand schools can elect to implement school traffic safety programmes such as walking school buses (WSBs) and assisted road crossings as a means to enhance child safety on the home to school journey. These initiatives ...

The maintenance of adequate cerebral blood flow (CBF) is important both acutely and chronically, is highly dependent on mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2), and can be ...

“Understanding why athletes play sport might help to explain how they play it” (Ntoumanis & Standage, 2009, p. 367). According to Deci and Ryan’s Self Determination Theory (SDT; 2000, 2008; Ryan & Deci, 2002) individuals ...