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APPLYING MODELS-BASED PRACTICE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

ASHLEY CASEY / DAVID KIRK

This book is a concise, practical introduction to Models-based Practice (MbP), a transformative approach to physical education and sport pedagogy that uses multiple pedagogical models in the design and delivery of physical education programs. The book introduces the core concepts underpinning the MbP approach – including models such as teaching games for understanding, sport ed...

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MODELS-BASED PRACTICE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

ASHLEY CASEY / DAVID KIRK

This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future approach to physical education. It lays out the ideal conditions for MbP to flourish by situating pedagogical models at the core of physical education programs and allowing space for local agency and the co-constr...

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PRECARITY, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

DAVID KIRK

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators’ unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal effects of precarity. Following a thorough analysis and critique of critical peda...

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AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS

DAVID M. JONES / KIRK VANGELDER

Suitable for students with no experience in electricity and electronics, this volume in the CDX Master Automotive Technician Series introduces students to the basic skills and tools they need to perform electrical diagnosis in the shop. Utilizing a “strategy-based diagnostics” approach, this book helps students master technical trouble-shooting in order to properly resolve the ...

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EVALUATING JUVENILE TRANSFER AND DISPOSITION

KIRK HEILBRUN / DAVID DEMATTEO / CHRISTOPHER KING / SARAH FILONE

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity. Included are perspectives relating to international practices, use of specialized assessment tools, and a separate chapter on resentenci...

$1,580.00

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THE FEMALE TRADITION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

DAVID KIRK AND PATRICIA VERTINSKY

The Female Tradition in Physical Education re-examines a key question in the history of modern education: why did the remarkably successful leaders of female physical education, who pioneered the development of the subject in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, lose control in the years following the Second World War? Despite...

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GIRLS, GENDER AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

KIMBERLY L. OLIVER / DAVID KIRK

In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and ...

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM STUDY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)

DAVID KIRK

The Curriculum is the focal point for the study of educational practice. It is the area in which individual, group and societal needs and interests meet and is consequently the source of much friction and contention. This book, first published in 1988, introduces students to some of the major points of debate; in particular, the role of curriculum-based study in the development...

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PEDAGOGIES, PHYSICAL CULTURE, AND VISUAL METHODS

AZZARITO, LAURA / KIRK, DAVID

To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of understanding, visual research has been scarce in the fields of physical culture an...

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DEFINING PHYSICAL EDUCATION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)

DAVID KIRK

First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War, it attempts to illustrate how the meaning of school physical education and its aim...

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FOR HOTELS

DAVID KIRK

Environmental Management for Hotels is a textbook for hospitality students that covers the relatively new field of environmental management. The reader is guided in how to make decisions which allow hotels to obtain optimum benefits for the environment whilst not threatening their own financial viability.Students are given an understanding of both the concepts and practical imp...

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION FUTURES

DAVID KIRK

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been high...

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GRAPHICS GEMS III (IBM VERSION): IBM VERSION

KIRK, DAVID

This sequel to Graphics Gems (Academic Press, 1990), and Graphics Gems II (Academic Press, 1991) is a practical collection of computer graphics programming tools and techniques. Graphics Gems III contains a larger percentage of gems related to modeling and rendering, particularly lighting and shading. This new edition also covers image processing, numerical and programming tech...

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON MID-HOLOCENE TRANSITIONS

ANDERSON, DAVID G. / MAASCH, KIRK / SANDWEISS, DANIEL H.

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agricultur...

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PROGRAMMING MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSORS

DAVID B. KIRK / WEN-MEI W. HWU

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Third Edition shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture, exploring, in detail, various techniques for constructing parallel programs. Case studies demonstrate the development process, detailing computational thinking and ending with effective and eff...

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PROGRAMMING MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSORS: A HANDS-ON APPROACH

KIRK, DAVID B. / HWU, WEN-MEI W.

Multi-core processors are no longer the future of computing-they are the present day reality. A typical mass-produced CPU features multiple processor cores, while a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) may have hundreds or even thousands of cores. With the rise of multi-core architectures has come the need to teach advanced programmers a new and essential skill: how to program massiv...

$890.00

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