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Physical activity promotion a responsibility for both K-12 physical education and kinesiology: overcoming "disciplinary and professional disconnects" will help the physical education profession promote lifelong physical activity and health.

Physical education is a physical activity profession, and in the mid-20th century it was criticized for not being based on well-founded disciplinary studies (Conant, 1956). As a result, a movement to develop a more "scientific" disciplinary base for physical education was established. Frankling Henry's presentation, "The Academic Discipline of Physical Education," at the 1964 national convention of the National College Physical Education Association for Men, later published in JOPER (1964), is often credited with accelerating the movement toward disciplinary areas of study. In the 1970s and 1980s, the body of knowledge in kinesiology (also called exercise science) emerged to ...

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