Hope & Kinesiology: The Hopelessness of Health-Centered Kinesiology

The Missing Science: Ethics in Practice

“…Why? Perhaps, much of this has to do with the love of science and the lack of appreciation for ethics and ethics education [30]. As noted in this chapter, coaches are neither trained nor educated in ethics, and that is a pity because children sufer from overspecialization, overtraining, and poor coaching.…”

“…With so few institutions with professors who are trained, educated, and published in the ield, there can be no faculty teaching in the subject mater ield with merit. We ind that interesting [29,30]. No kinesiological faculty would place a non-exercise physiologist in an exercise science course-but the faculty has no issue with placing an instructor in a philosophy of sports class who has no credentials.…”

“…A few textbooks do exist [32,33], and curriculums for coaches somewhat exist on coaching ethics but nothing of substance. The strategy depends on a reworking of the basic undergraduate education and coaching education to focus on coaching ethics as the fundamentally most important aspect of sports education [30,34]. Therefore, we recommend not only courses in sports ethics but also an overarching umbrella where the concept of ethical practice becomes part and parcel of all that is taught [35].…”

The American Kinesiology Association Core Content for Kinesiology Programs: From Concept to Curriculum

“…It is not likely that that all kinesiologists or kinesiology departments will achieve consensus with regard to how the undergraduate curriculum should be constructed and delivered. Indeed, several recent papers have expanded on the AKA core curriculum to provide an alternative perspective with respect to how the practice of physical activity is described in the AKA core (Johnson & Twietmeyer, 2018;Twietmeyer, 2018). Such a scholarly exchange of ideas and perspectives around what should be in the kinesiology core is both appropriate and desirable.…”