Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram
Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram
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DOI：
10.1080/13573322.2016.1213716
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Pluim, Carolyn
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作者：
Gard, Michael;Pluim, Carolyn
在我们的标题中提出这个问题时，我们给自己设定了一个任务，即试图理解为什么在它的原产国，对Fitnessgrama产品的学术审查和质疑如此之少，而Fitnessgrama产品旨在帮助以学校为基础的年轻人体能测试，然后考虑这种沉默的含义。我们通过提供批判性学术的广义定义来开始我们的提问。然后，我们简要地描述了体育研究的当代景观，以及它对学术研究的工具性和应用性方法的关注，这种方法似乎仅限于关于什么在学校有效的问题。在此概述之后，我们将讨论Fitnessgram的奖学金。我们的分析集中在学术界、专业组织、公司、资助机构和出版机构之间的各种联系网络日益增长的影响力上。为了证实我们的说法，我们从最近的历史中提供了一些在著名的国家会议上发表的摘要的例子，并讨论了美国主要的健康和体育期刊的内容。从这些学术渠道发出的压倒性的明显信息是，当涉及到实施Fitnessgram时，学校和大学人员应该简单地服从政府和公共健康倡导者的命令。我们的回顾显示，Fitnessgram文献缺乏平衡的怀疑主义，特别是在解释研究结果时。正如我们将要讨论的那样，几乎没有任何形式的关于Fitnessgram使用的批判性学术研究，鉴于最近公共政策的发展要求在美国学校扩大采用Fitnessgram，这是一个值得注意的情况。
In posing the question in our title, we have set ourselves the task of trying to understand why so little scholarly scrutiny and questioning of Fitnessgrama product designed to assist in the school-based physical fitness testing of young peopleexists in the country of its origin and then consider the implications of this silence. We begin our interrogation by offering a broad definition of critical scholarship'. We then briefly describe the contemporary landscape of physical education research and its preoccupation with an instrumental and applied approach to scholarship that seems limited to questions about what works' in schools. Following this overview we discuss the scholarship of Fitnessgram. Our analysis focuses on the increasing influence of various webs of connection between academics, professional organizations, corporations, funding agencies and publishing outlets. To substantiate the claims we make, we offer some examples from the recent history of abstracts accepted for presentation at prominent national conferences and discuss the contents of leading United States health and physical education journals. The overwhelming apparent message emanating from these scholarly outlets is that school and university personnel should simply fall into line with the mandates of government and public health advocates when it comes to the implementation of Fitnessgram. Our review reveals that the Fitnessgram literature suffers from a lack of counter-balancing scepticism particularly when it comes to the interpretation of research findings. As we will argue, virtually no critical scholarship of any kind exists on the use of Fitnessgram, a remarkable situation given recent public policy developments that call for its expanded adoption in United States schools.