Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King with swimmer Micki King at the Women of the Year Awards

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Chris Evert-Lloyd

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Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King footprints

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Billie Jean King at Women's Sports Magazine press conference

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Billie Jean King at Women's Sports Magazine press conference

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Tracy Austin

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Billie Jean King

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Performance scolaire et régulation par les connaissances en éducation

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les systèmes d’enseignement de très nombreux pays sont engagés dans des transformations profondes de leurs politiques éducatives. D’une part, on assiste progressivement à une globalisation et à une européanisation des politiques éducatives. Si elles restent formellement définies par les États, ces dernières sont de plus en plus enchâssées dans des procédures de mise en comparaison de leurs résultats (via par exemple les classements des pays produits par l’enquête Pisa de l’OCDE ; Lingard/Rawolle/Taylor, 2005 ; Mangez/Cattonar, 2009) et dans des procédures de coordination de leurs objectifs. Ainsi en Europe, les ministres de l’éducation des États-membres, avec l’aide de la Commission européenne, se sont mis d’accord sur un “Cadre européen Éducation et formation tout au long de la vie” (CEEFTLV)1. Les objectifs sont formulés en s’appuyant sur la définition d’indicateurs et de niveaux de référence de ces indicateurs (benchmark) que chaque pays s’engage à essayer d’atteindre. Les objectifs opérationnels sont formulés sous forme de “chiffres” de référence. Comme l’avance Ozga (2009), on gouverne par les “nombres”. Cette construction progressive d’un “espace européen de l’éducation” s’opère notamment par la mise en place de dispositifs de “coordination” basés sur ces outils (Lawn/Grek, 2012).

Performance scolaire et régulation par les connaissances en éducation

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les systèmes d’enseignement de très nombreux pays sont engagés dans des transformations profondes de leurs politiques éducatives. D’une part, on assiste progressivement à une globalisation et à une européanisation des politiques éducatives. Si elles restent formellement définies par les États, ces dernières sont de plus en plus enchâssées dans des procédures de mise en comparaison de leurs résultats (via par exemple les classements des pays produits par l’enquête Pisa de l’OCDE ; Lingard/Rawolle/Taylor, 2005 ; Mangez/Cattonar, 2009) et dans des procédures de coordination de leurs objectifs. Ainsi en Europe, les ministres de l’éducation des États-membres, avec l’aide de la Commission européenne, se sont mis d’accord sur un “Cadre européen Éducation et formation tout au long de la vie” (CEEFTLV)1. Les objectifs sont formulés en s’appuyant sur la définition d’indicateurs et de niveaux de référence de ces indicateurs (benchmark) que chaque pays s’engage à essayer d’atteindre. Les objectifs opérationnels sont formulés sous forme de “chiffres” de référence. Comme l’avance Ozga (2009), on gouverne par les “nombres”. Cette construction progressive d’un “espace européen de l’éducation” s’opère notamment par la mise en place de dispositifs de “coordination” basés sur ces outils (Lawn/Grek, 2012).

The Influence of the Family in the Development of Talent in Sport

The purpose of the present study was to describe patterns in the dynamics of families of talented athletes throughout their development in sport. Four families, including three families of elite rowers and one family of an elite tennis player were examined. The framework provided by Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch- Römer (1993) to explain expert performance served as the theoretical basis for the study. Ericsson et al. suggested that the acquisition of expert performance involves operating within three types of constraints: motivational, effort, and resource. In-depth interviews were conducted with each athlete, parent, and sibling to explore how they have dealt with these three constraints. A total of 15 individual interviews were conducted. Results permitted the identification of three phases of participation from early childhood to late adolescence: the sampling years, the specializing years, and the investment years. The dynamics of the family in each of these phases of development is discussed

Creating New Design-Build-Test Experiences as Outputs of Undergraduate Design-Build-Test Projects

This paper describes a methodology of using individual engineering undergraduate student projects as a means of effectively and efficiently developing new Design-Build-Test (DBT) learning experiences and challenges.
A key aspect of the rationale for this approach is that it benefits all parties. The student undertaking the individual project gets an authentic experience of producing a functional artefact, which has been the result of a design process that addresses conception, design, implementation and operation. The supervising faculty member benefits from live prototyping of new curriculum content and resources with a student who is at a similar level of knowledge and experience as the intended end users of the DBT outputs. The multiple students who ultimately undertake the DBT experiences / challenges benefit from the enhanced nature of a learning experience which has been “road tested” and optimised.
To demonstrate the methodology the paper will describe a case study example of an individual project completed in 2015. This resulted in a DBT design challenge with a theme of designing a catapult for throwing table tennis balls, the device being made from components laser cut from medium density fibreboard (MDF). Further three different modes of operation will be described which use the same resource materials but operate over different timescales and with different learning outcomes, from an icebreaker exercise focused on developing team dynamics through to full DBT where students get an opportunity to experience the full impact of their design decisions by competing against other students with a catapult they have designed and built themselves.

Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction

Comparatively few contemporary writers have accompanied American POWs home from Hanoi, been arrested on the White House Lawn, or been dragged off in shackles to serve time in the Greenwich Village Women's House of Detention. Paley's pacifist, socialist politics are also deeply rooted in a family past where memories were still fresh of Tsarist oppression - one uncle shot dead carrying the red flag, and parents who reached America only because the Tsar had a son and amnestied all political prisoners under the age of twenty-one. At this point, Paley's father (imprisoned in Archangel) and her mother (in exile) took their chances (and all their surviving relatives) and very sensibly ran for their lives. Her grandmother recalled family arguments around the table between Paley's father (Socialist), Uncle Grisha (Communist), Aunt Luba (Zionist), and Aunt Mira (also Communist). Paley's own street-wise adolescence involved the usual teenage gang fights, between adherents of the Third and Fourth Internationals. This article is copyright MHRA 2001, and is included in this repository with permission.

INJURIES RELATED TO COMPETITIVE AND NONCOMPETITIVE SPORTS IN ELDERLY MEN

Objective: To verify the sociodemographic profile and the frequency of musculoskeletal injuries in elderly people who practice competitive and noncompetitive sports activities in the city of Pelotas, RS. Methods: Descriptive study, including 29 male subjects, aged 65 years or older, who practiced sports modalities in a competitive and noncompetitive way, in the city of Pelotas, in 2015. Data collection was performed through the application of a questionnaire with questions addressing economic, sociodemographic, nutritional and behavioral issues, and injuries sustained in sports activities. Statistical analysis was performed by calculating measures of central tendency for continuous variables and proportions for categorical variables. Results: The current practice of competitive sports was described by 58.6% (n=17) of the subjects, and the most practiced sports were 7-a-side football (53.0%, n=9), tennis (23.5%, n=4) and swimming (23.5%, n=4). Noncompetitive sports were practiced by 44.8% (n=13), and tennis was the most popular sport played (92.3%, n=12). The frequency of injuries among individuals practicing competitive and noncompetitive sports was, respectively, 35.3% (n=6), and 38.5% (n=5). The most frequent injuries were epicondylitis (50.0%, n=3) and meniscus injuries (60.0%, n=3), and the most affected body regions were knee (27.3%, n=3), elbow (27.3%, n=3), and shoulder (18.2%, n=2). The injuries occurred during the sports activities, and the dominant side was the one affected in 63.6% (n=7). Conclusion: This study verified that the occurrence of injuries in elderly individuals who practice sports is relevant, even among those who practice them noncompetitively, with epicondylitis as the most frequent among them, whereas meniscus injuries are the most frequent among those who practice competitive sports.