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Blurring The Boundary Lines Between Amateur And Professional Sports, Kenneth D. Ferguson

Faculty Works

The NCAA expends substantial resources to insure that the distinction between amateur and professional sports is maintained in collegiate athletics. Preserving the boundary lines between amateur and professional sports is more than an attempt to ensure philosophical purity or a nostalgic quest for historic preservation. The boundaries between amateur and professional sports are maintained by legal doctrines in several areas.

Application of tort law to coaches' liability for conduct leading to injuries to athletes reflects and preserves the boundary lines between professional and amateur sports. Although the implied assumption of risk doctrine should preserve that distinction, some courts have applied …

Cd 651 Professional Foundations Of Christian Education, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

Syllabi

A History of Christian Education by James E. Reed and Ronnie Prevost. Sourcebook of the Christian Faith: Primary source readings from the history of Christian education(latest edition), edited by Robert F. Lay, Taylor University. This is a book of primary documents. Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless Religious Education in the African American Tradition: A Comprehensive Introduction by Kenneth H. Hill

University Psychology Clinics In Australia: Their Place In Professional Training, Craig J. Gonsalvez, Judy Hyde, Julie Barrington, Sandra Lancaster

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

There is universal recognition of the need for developmentally appropriate supervised clinical experience in professional psychology training. University clinics were established to provide a bridging function for postgraduate clinical psychology students, assisting the integration of psychological theory and research into real-world clinical applications and professional identity development.

Analyzing The Wnba's Mandatory Age/Education Policy From A Legal, Cultural,And Ethical Perspective: Women, Men, And The Professional Sports Landscape, Marc Edelman, C. Keith Harrison

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) age/education policy, which generally requires women's professional basketball players to wait four years after graduating high school before entering the league, invokes substantial debate about both its legality and ethicality. This article discusses the WNBA age/education policy from a legal, cultural, and ethical perspective. Part One of this article discusses the women's basketball landscape in terms of sociology, race, and gender. Part Two discusses the history of women's basketball in America, as well as the history of the WNBA and its age/education policy. Part Three explains the legal issues that underlie an antitrust challenge …

The Clinical Year, Stephen Ellmann

NYLS Law Review

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Professional Development At University: Student Perceptions Of Professional Engineering Practice, Vinay Domal, Brad Stappenbelt, James Trevelyan

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

This study examined student perceptions regarding professional engineering practice. We surveyed secondary school students attending engineering camps, engineering students in their first and fourth years, graduate engineers and experienced engineers to ascertain their impressions about what constitutes the daily activities of a professional engineer. We asked respondents to rate 39 aspects of engineering practice identified from the research later reported in (Trevelyan 2008). These aspects were rated by the participants according to their perception of the importance and the frequency encountered in engineering practice. We also asked where the participants learned or where they believed they were going to learn …

Virtual Practicum Experiences To Build Professional Identity, Lisa A. Carrington, Lisa K. Kervin, Brian Ferry

Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)

This paper reports on a how pre-service teacher use of an online classroom simulation (ClassSim) supplemented existing practicum experiences and contributed to the development of their emerging professional identity. ClassSim was developed to provide pre-service teachers with a safe virtual environment in which they can explore ‘authentic’ and practical classroom scenarios. Users were able to assume the role of a teacher during in the virtual classroom, and during its running time make a number of decisions about the management of the classroom and the organisation of virtual teaching and learning experiences. Embedded tools were designed to enhance the development of …

Evidence Based Medicine: The Role Of The Health Information Professional, Nasra Gathoni

Libraries

Introduction: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of patients” (Sackett et al, 1996). This concept of EBM extends the health information professional beyond “identification of literature to involvement in practicing and teaching quality filtering and critical appraisal of the literature” (Scherrer, 1999:324).

This definitely challenges the traditional role of the health information professional thus advocating for the need to acquire necessary skills, so as to be in a position to support EBM.

Objectives: To outline the steps in the EBM process; to explore the role …