Summary
Contents
This book systematically demonstrates the significance and application of method in plain language.
Written for students, this book contains the core methodological concepts, practices, and debates they need to understand and apply research methods within the field of sport and exercise. It provides a comprehensive panoramic introduction which will reassure and empower its readers.
Written by a leading academic, and drawing on years of teaching experience, it includes carefully cross-referenced entries which critically engage with interdisciplinary themes and data.
Each concept includes:
Clear Definitions; Suggestions for Further Reading; Comprehensive Examples; Practical Applications
Pragmatic, lucid, and concise, the book will provide essential support to students in sport and exercise science, kinesiology, and health.
Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary Research
Departments or Faculties called Sport and Exercise Sciences, Physical Education and Health, Kinesiology, Movement Sciences, Human Kinetics, Public Health or Epidemiology all have one thing in common; they are diverse academic spaces with members from disciplines such as physiology, sociology, psychology, economics, biology, ergonomics, political science, women's studies, biomechanics, pedagogy, and others. Undergraduate and graduate degrees offered in these schools are varied and specialised but tend to emphasise multi-disciplinary learning. Bodies, health and physical activity are taught as complex subjects requiring study from a range of perspectives and methods. The ostensible ethos in the majority of our Departments and Faculties thus places emphasis on learning about health/exercise/sport from ‘cell to society’. Any ‘problem’ we study, such as performance enhancement, motivation to exercise, ...