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A Narrative Study of Cultural Identity Construction of African Refugee College Students in the Midwest
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2021-04-10)There are few African refugee college students in the United States and little is known regarding how they construct their cultural identities. This study sought to examine the cultural identity of four African refugee ... -
The Place of World History in South Dakota’s Failed 2021 Social Studies Standards Revision Process
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Introduction to the Forum: Standards and World History
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The Hillsdale Effect: South Dakota’s Troubling New Social Studies Standards
(National Council for the Social Studies, 2023-11)South Dakota’s teachers will face difficult challenges of implementation, pedagogy, and content when their state’s new, politically influenced, social studies standards go into effect in 2024. -
Religious Education and the Anglo-World: The Impact of Empire, Britishness, and Decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
(Brill, 2020)Focusing on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, “Religious Education and the Anglo-World” historiographically examines the relationship between empire and religious education. In each case the analysis centres on the ... -
The Cultural Responsiveness of the Communicative and Task-Based Instructional Approaches to African English Language Learners in a College ESL Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study
(2023-11)In the United States school education system, there are students who are identified as English Language Learners (ELLs). ELLs are multilingual students who speak any other language apart from English at home. While majority ... -
Repeat sprint fatigue and altered neuromuscular performance in recreationally trained basketball players
(Public Library of Science, 2023-07-17)The primary aim of the present study was to investigate how the fatigue induced through a repeat sprint protocol acutely affected different measures of neuromuscular performance. Recreationally trained basketball players ... -
Repeat sprint fatigue and altered neuromuscular performance in recreationally trained basketball players
(Public Library of Science, 2023-07-17)The primary aim of the present study was to investigate how the fatigue induced through a repeat sprint protocol acutely affected different measures of neuromuscular performance. Recreationally trained basketball players ... -
Unilaterally Induced Quadriceps Fatigue during Sustained Submaximal Isometric Exercise Does Not Alter Contralateral Leg Extensor Performance
(MDPI, 2023-06-19)This study investigated the effects of fatiguing unilateral exercise on the ipsilateral, exercised, and contralateral, non-exercised limb’s post-exercise performance in males and females. Ten males and ten females performed ... -
Fatigue-Induced Neuromuscular Performance Changes in Professional Male Volleyball Players
(MDPI, 2023-06-16)The purpose of the present study was to assess pre-post practice changes in countermovement vertical jump (CVJ) force-time metrics and to determine the relationship between internal and external load variables within a ... -
Rethinking the time spent at school: Could flexibility improve engagement and performance for students and teachers?
(Springer, 2023-05-03)Is it possible to reduce the time students spend in classrooms and schools? Would such a reduction be better for learning and retaining teachers? How should learning be more flexibly enacted in the post-pandemic era? This ... -
Impact of the Anatomical Accelerometer Placement on Vertical Jump Performance Characteristics
(MDPI, 2023-04-21)With rapid technological development over recent years, the use of wearable athlete monitoring devices has substantially gained popularity. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of the anatomical ... -
Dialogue as Black Contemplative Practice
(The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 2022-04-19)Across space, time, and texts, I have engaged in contemplative dialogue with the writings of four writers—Black feminist poet Audre Lorde; Chicana poet Gloria Anzaldúa; artist, activist, and community healer Tricia Hersey; ... -
Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules
(SAGE Publications, 2023-05-18)I conduct an inquiry into my participation as an African American woman at two popular culture conventions, the 2017 Dragon Con (Atlanta) and the 2018 annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America ... -
The Influence of Climate on Flourishing and Motivational Outcomes for U.S. Masters Swimmers
(MDPI, 2023-01-21)The climate in which older adults exercise and participate in sport may play a role in promoting a lifetime commitment to exercising. However, little research has examined the relationship of caring (C) and task-involving ... -
From single attitudes to belief systems: Examining the centrality of STEM attitudes using belief network analysis
(Elsevier, 2023-04-07)Many achievement and motivation theories claim that a specific set of beliefs, interests or values plays a central role in determining career choice and behavior. In order to investigate how attitudes determine behaviors, ... -
Chronic training status affects muscle excitation of the vastus lateralis during repeated contractions
(Elsevier, 2023-01-02)This study examined electromyographic amplitude (EMGRMS)-force relationships during repeated submaximal knee extensor muscle actions among chronic aerobically-(AT), resistance-trained (RT), and sedentary (SED) individuals. ... -
The Importance of Lower Body Strength and Power for Future Success in Professional Men’s Basketball
(Paneuropean University Apeiron, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020)Heavy resistance exercise is often prescribed for collegiate basketball players to enhance game performance, but few data are available concerning the transference of lower body strength and power to the opportunity to ... -
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the ‘Return to Duty Readiness Questionnaire’
(MDPI, 2022-12-23)The Readiness to Return to Duty Questionnaire (RDRQ) is a recently developed screening instrument for detecting fear-avoidance behavior in a military musculoskeletal pain population. The RDRQ was developed based on the ... -
Physical and Performance Characteristics of 3×3 Professional Male Basketball Players
(MDPI, 2023-01-12)Despite exponential growth in popularity over the last decade and recently becoming an Olympic sport, the amount of scientific literature focused on depicting a profile of successful 3×3 basketball players is sparse. Thus, ...