A survey of Kenyan physical education teachers' understanding of heat illness and management of heat stress in athletes
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Date
1997
Authors
Shehu, J.
Wamukoya, E. K.
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
In a steadily developing sporting nation like, Kenya, with inexorable
increasing crop of long distance runners and participants in various sports,
the issues of traumatology and epidemiology sports of injury oughr to be
of empirical importance to Kenyan physical educators. fortunately, in
recent years there has been a remarkably vigorous scholarly inquiries into
pattern of sports injuries among Kenyan sportsmen and women.
Nevertheless, follow-up field research on sports injury knowledge and
practices of Kenyan games tutors and physical education teachers remain
the exception rather than the rule. This exploratory research is designed
specifically to investigate Kenyan physical education teachers' notions and
metaconceptual understanding of heat stress in athletes using quantitative
analysis of data obtained from a forced-option tests. The outcome of this
study is expected to inform and reform the teaching of concepts in exercise
physiology and sports medicine to prospective physical educators enrolled
at Kenyatta University and Kenyan teachers' colleges.
Description
A paper presented at the Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and dance 3rd Scientific Congress held on 11th - 15th September, 1997 in Nairobi, Kenya