8th FIEP European Congress
“Physical Education and Sports Perspective of Children
and Youth in Europe”
Bratislava, Slovakia
29th August to 1st September, 2013
The 8th Congress will focus on trends in physical education and the role of physical education and sport professionals in a changing society.
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Music Fundamentals for Dance is currently the only book to explain essential concepts of music and examine them in relation to dance performance, composition and teaching.
This valuable reference helps professional choreographers, dance teachers and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance.
It helps dancers understand the various elements of music, such as form and structure, musical time, melody, texture and score reading and how they relate to dance performance and choreography.
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This third edition of Social Dance: Steps to Success allows novice ballroom dancers to learn all the moves for 10 of the most popular dance styles.
The first few learning stages introduce the foundational skills and concepts needed for success on the dance floor, with each stage moving seamlessly onto the next.
Using the book and accompanying DVD, dancers progress through a series of steps, learning how posture and footwork affect balance, how to connect footwork with the music, adjust to a partner, make the transition between partner positions and create sequences from variations of each dance’s specific rhythmic step pattern.
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Teaching Children Dance, Third Edition, enables teachers to understand the components and benefits of children’s dance.
It helps them to develop the skills required for enhancing or initiating dance as part of the physical education or arts curriculum for children of nursery and primary school age.
The updated third edition includes 31 ready-to-use lessons and includes new chapters on teaching children with disabilities and making interdisciplinary connections.
In addition, Teaching Children Dance features a bonus CD-ROM with PDFs of the learning experiences included in the text, plus additional learning experiences from previous editions.
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A national youth dance company is to be set up, in response to a review of cultural education in England.
The government-commissioned review by Classic FM’s Darren Henley says it wants dance to be seen as a subject in its own right, rather than as a subsidiary to PE.
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, shows how to use imagery, touch and movement exercises to improve co-ordination and alignment.
These exercises also help relieve tension, enhance the health of the spine and back and prevent back injury.
Over 600 imagery exercises almost 500 illustrations help readers visualize the exercises and use them to experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles that are crucial to dancers and other performing artists, Yoga and Pilates teachers and practitioners, and athletes.
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Dance Improvisations will help overcome any doubts that dancers and teachers might have with improvisation.
This practical book promotes a high level of creativity designed to stimulate innovative advances among dance students from secondary school to university.
It contains 73 individual and group activities that can be used as warm-ups, as games to stimulate creativity and choreographic tasks for creating movement material.
The concise instructions and teaching tips save valuable preparation time and are clear enough to allow more experienced students to use the book to practice unsupervised.
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Participating in regular physical activity, such as modern dance, may help young adults achieve a healthier distribution of body fat, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Compared to non-dancers with the same overall amount of fat, the dancers had less abdominal fat which is linked to an increased risk of metabolic and heart diseases, a major public health concern.
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Children love to express themselves through movement and this new resource shows how to guide them through a range of actions and dances that will help them develop both physically and mentally.
It offers 28, age-appropriate dances with music for students aged 4 to 12 and provides lesson plans that incorporate Laban movement concepts and extend children’s movement vocabulary.
Lesson Plans for Creative Dance: Connecting With Literature, Arts and Music is a resource for lecturers in Physical Education, PE teachers and dance specialists, as well as being a useful supplementary text for PE teacher training courses.
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The more dancers know their bodies, the more accomplished they can become.
Experiential Anatomy in Dance Technique: Eight Skeletal Explorations will help instructors develop class material that allows their students to improve their understanding of their bodies.
In doing so, they will develop their ability to make educated choices about their movements while becoming more dynamic and versatile dancers.
This DVD offers a basic understanding of human anatomy for instructors and students who have not completed any anatomy or kinesiology courses.
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Students will learn to appreciate the consequences of external forces, how the body generates internal forces to maintain position, and how forces create movement in physical activities.
The accompanying web resource includes all of the problems from the book, separated by chapter, plus 10 sample problems.
This text is also enhanced with access to MaxTRAQ Educational 2D software which enables students to analyze and quantify real-world sport movements in video clips and upload their own video content for analysis.
The completely revised seventh edition of Fitness & Health offers a comprehensive understanding of the exercise/health relationship and provides a framework for attaining health and fitness goals.
This handbook for students and fitness professionals explores the physiology and benefits of fitness whilst also providing information and tools for improving health and wellness.
It also includes special elements to highlight interesting content on health and fitness, including important health behaviours, testing procedures and proven fitness programmes.
The book explains how the body responds to physical activity; why physical activity is beneficial to health; and how physical activity can help people increase aerobic and muscular fitness, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, enhance performance in work and sport, and improve general vitality.
Lecturers benefit from the inclusion of new ancillaries containing an instructor guide complete with lab activities, a test package and a presentation package with image bank.
Exercise Psychology addresses the psychological and biological consequences of exercise and physical activity, and their subsequent effects on mood and mental health.
In contrast to other exercise psychology textbooks it presents a psychobiolocal approach that examines the inner workings of the body and their effects on behaviour.
From this unique perspective, readers will learn the biological foundations of exercise psychology within the broader contexts of cognitive, social and environmental influences.
By exploring the biological mechanisms associated with individuals’ behaviour, Exercise Psychology challenges students and researchers to critically examine less-explored methods for positive behaviour change.
Discover what it takes to maximize multisport strength, power, speed and endurance.
Triathlon Anatomy shows how to improve performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement.
Triathlon Anatomy features 82 of the most effective multisport exercises with step-by-step descriptions and full colour anatomical illustrations highlighting the muscles in action.
It places the reader at the starting line and into the throes of competition by fundamentally linking each exercise to multisport performance.
It explains how to strengthen muscles and increase stamina for running across various terrains, cycling steep inclines and swimming in open water.
It shows how to modify exercises to target specific areas, reduce muscle tension and minimize common injuries.
Best of all, it shows how to put it all together to develop a training programme based on individual needs and goals.
Increase muscle strength, improve flexibility and reduce pain and stiffness.
Each year, millions of people worldwide discover the incredible physical and mental benefits of tai chi and with Tai Chi Illustrated, anyone can.
Internationally renowned instructor Master Pixiang Qiu and mind–body exercise expert Weimo Zhu demonstrate the most effective forms for harnessing the healing power of chi, or energy.
By following their lead, readers can improve balance and coordination, relieve stress and reduce pain and muscle stiffness.
Tai Chi Illustratedis a step‐by‐step guide complete with detailed instructions and full‐colour photographic sequences for the basic movements and popular forms, such as Grasp Sparrow’s Tail and Part the Wild Horse’s Mane.
Whether a newcomer to tai chi or an experienced practitioner, Tai Chi Illustrated is the guide to the path of better health and self‐awareness.
Previous editions of Serious Strength Training, Bompa’s bestselling guide to boosting workouts and achieving even the loftiest of strength goals, have sold over 100,000 copies.
Now Bompa teams up with strength training nutrition expert Mauro Di Pasquale and former bodybuilder Lorenzo Cornacchia to provide readers with the most authoritative resource available for hard-core strength training.
The book focuses on the six key phases of strength training - anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, mixed, maximum strength, muscle definition and transition - taking a direct and prescriptive approach to its content.
It then goes on to infuse it with the latest scientific research on bodybuilding, instead of relying on the authors’ personal opinions.
Bestselling author Frédéric Delavier brings his singular style to active women serious about slimming, toning and shaping their bodies.
Like having an X‐ray as you work out, Delavier’s Sculpting Anatomy for Women features full‐colour photographs and detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for slimming, shaping and toning the core, bottom and legs.
Whether looking to eliminate love handles, tighten glutes, or add definition to the legs, Delavier’s Sculpting Anatomy for Women presents the exercises, programming and advice for the results you want.
It’s all here and all in the stunning detail that only Frédéric Delavier can provide!
Step‐by‐step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations to ensure a clear understanding of how to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of each exercise.
See how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations can make each exercise easier
or more intense.
For those who have just started their first position as a PE teacher, the butterflies will still be fluttering and nagging doubts surfacing.
Good news then for newly fledged teachers is this reassuring arm around the shoulder - Survive and Thrive as a Physical Educator.
This practical resource will help them put everything they learned in college to work as they begin their teaching careers.
It contains advice on everything from what to do before school starts to creating engaging lesson and unit plans to classroom management techniques.
It also provides a wealth of information on handling some of the day-to-day issues that they may not have been taught, such as adapting to the work environment, understanding the school culture, communicating with parents and avoiding burnout.
This text includes the strategies, lesson plans and scientific evidence to help schools maximize physical activity levels amongst pupils of secondary school age with a view to improving their overall cardiovascular fitness.
This innovative curriculum explains how to incorporate cardiovascular fitness and lends validity to physical education programmes, while helping maximize the productive use of instruction time.
Containing lessons focused on secondary school pupils aged eleven to eighteen years old, Heart Education is an excellent teaching resource.
Anyone seeking a comprehensive book that appeals to both recreational fitness runners and serious performance runners and that uniquely addresses a female audience, look no further - Running for Women is that book.
Exercise physiologist Jason Karp has teamed up with physician and USA Track & Field ultramarathon champion Dr. Carolyn Smith to meet this need with Running for Women, a book that explains the physiology and anatomy of female runners and provides guidance for training differently from men.
The book presents guidelines for tailoring training to the menstrual cycle for maximum response and adaptation as well as determining the best times to perform the various types of training outlined in the book.
Throughout the book, cutting-edge workouts target various competitive goals like endurance building, speed and strength training, lactate threshold training and VO2max training.
Runnning isn't just about churning out miles day in and day out. Runners have a passion, dedication and desire to go faster, longer and further.
Now, The Art of Running Faster provides you with a new approach to running, achieving your goals and setting your personal best.
Whether you're old or young, new to the sport or an experienced marathoner, this guide will change how you run and the results you achieve.
Much more than training tips and motivational stories, The Art of Running Faster is your guide to improved technique and optimal performance.
Improve technique, game sense and fitness levels with the aid of Rugby Games & Drills.
Developed by one of the game’s top coaches and endorsed by the Rugby Football Union, Rugby Games & Drills. contains over 115 games and drills designed to bring out the very best in players, regardless of age or ability or rugby code.
This book is packed with the most effective games and drills for improving core skills such as handling, kicking and decision making, while providing tough physical challenges.
