Stephen J Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3875-4815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Physical literacy, health and interactive aging
Physical literacy (PL), a concept commonly associated with the early years, physical education, and youth sport development, can become a meaningful determinant of health and longevity for the adult and older adult population. A review of 55 recent publications from 2018 to 2023 that encompassed physical literacy conceptual frameworks, assessments, and intervention-based studies was undertaken through an heuristic inspired by the philosophy which…
Examining the associations between testosterone and biomarkers as men age
OBJECTIVES: Testosterone concentrations in men decline with advancing age. However, the cause of the decline is yet to be fully elucidated. Therefore, the aims of this study were to examine the associations between chronic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with total testosterone (TT) and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), using a large nationally-representative data set (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surv…
Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections
The rhythmic interplay of accent, tempo, and musical mood is expressed in the bodily postures, gestures, and expressions of attuned responsiveness in Salsa Dura, a genre of salsa music from the 1970s featuring improvisational dance solos. These dancers embrace the feelings and flows of soloing musicians going off and breaking free from any predictable form and structure. We inquire into how world-class salsa dancers and educators feel themselves …
Becoming InterActive for Life
The overarching purpose of the InterActive for Life (IA4L) project is to mobilize relational knowledge of partnered movement practices for physical education practitioners. Through a participatory, motion-sensing phenomenological methodology, relational knowledge gleaned from world class experts in salsa dance, equestrian arts, push hands Tai Chi and acroyoga, and analyzed through the Function2Flow conceptual model, was shared with Physical Educa…
Swimming in flow motion
Becoming educated physically need not be confined to gyms, playing fields, dance studios and aquatic complexes. A case in point is that of swimming which serves notice on training the body exclusively by offering an ecologically attuned, movement pedagogy. As an exemplar for the cultivation of the body-subject and its implication in the flesh of world, a phenomenological analysis of swimming provides a somaesthetic rendition of flow motion by hig…
Life Phenomenology and Relational Flow
Michel Henry's radical reversal of world-referenced intentionality provides inspiration for drawing out the substantive features of relational flow analysis. To feel what you see is the overarching methodological cue in the consideration of flow affects. Flow moments are telling cues for discerning how there are not so much instances of temporal flux as there are impressions of vital connection that wax and wane in intensity. The depth of these i…
Dogma before diversity
This paper discusses contradictory imperatives in contemporary Australian pedagogy – the notions of ‘controversy’ and ‘diversity’ as they relate the subjects of genders and sexualities. It is a common view that both gender and sexuality are important organising features of identity, society and politics. Consistent effort is made in the Australian educational context to combat discrimination, prejudice against sexually, and gender ‘diverse’ peopl…
‘A lot more to learn than where babies come from’
Sexuality education in Australian schools continues to struggle in its ability and willingness to address many of the broader social issues associated with sexuality, such as the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersex and queer (GLBTIQ) students. Studies involving teachers have demonstrated that a reticence on their part to teach GLBTIQ-inclusive sexuality education is driven by a lack of training in handling ‘sensitive’ issues,…
The semiotics of heritage tourism
Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment
Language skirts the somatic fringes of the moment, particularly in practices where the powers of human speech and writing seem nullified. Horse training is one such practice. We tell stories of horse training that sensitize us and bring us close to creatures whose movements, resonating with our own, connect us to a prelinguistic, animate world. In so doing, we bridge the gap between the reflective detachment of our customary, wordy practices and …
Promoting Vitality in Health and Physical Education
Vitality draws together the interests of health and physical education. Already these fields of education have come together, with health, fitness, wellness, and active and healthy living as shared curricular concepts. Vitality furthers these conjunctions by having us rethink prevailing views of the body of knowledge in health and physical education. More than a concept, vitality is promoted phenomenologically in terms of the essential movements …
Gesture, Landscape and Embrace
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh of the world’ speaks to an embodied connection to the spaces we inhabit deeply, primally, elementally. Flesh suggests water and its circulations, air and its respirations, earth and its conformations, fire and its inspirations. Flesh speaks to our bodily relations with the elements of a more-than-human world. This paper explores the felt imperative to these relations where, as Merleau-Ponty put it, ‘all distance is …
The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: In order to elucidate the medical care of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States, we randomly sampled HIV-infected adults receiving medical care in the contiguous United States at a facility other than military, prison, or emergency department facility during the first two months of 1996. We interviewed 76 percent of 4042 patients selected from among the patients receiving care from…
Physically Remembering Childhood
As we walk along the beach I am reminded of similar excursions some 30 years ago. There is the ribbon of coarse sand looping past dilapidated beach cottages where we combed through mounds of seaweed for cuttlefish shells to take home for the budgerigar. I see the trees close to the Point where we discovered “stink bugs,” small blackspotted beetles of crimson, orange, and turquoise that left an acrid smell on our fingers. And then there are the ch…
Remembrances of Childhood as a Source of Pedagogical Understanding
I set out to become a teacher of physical education and along
Value Added Tax
This book, by Alan A. Tait, is an examination of VAT. It looks at problems and theoretical options and potential impacts, as well as detailing the practical aspects of implementing new tax structures. The author advances arguments for and against alternative policies and illustrates his study with international examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. He suggests that countries can learn from each other's experiencees with VAT
Operating on a Child’s Heart
Researching Educational Practice
This slim volume will be familiar to some people, as it appeared in 1976 as a Dutch
Seeing a Risk
A Human Science Investigation of the Pedagogic Nature of an Exchange Experience
There is a curious division in the school curriculum between those activities which are seen to be necessary for a child's education and those which are considered extracurricular frills. Included in this latter category are not only the activities of clubs, associations, and sporting groups which normally occur outside schooling hours, but also the activities which intrude into the normal school routine and include camps, excursions, and student…
Value Added Tax
This book, by Alan A. Tait, is an examination of VAT. It looks at problems and theoretical options and potential impacts, as well as detailing the practical aspects of implementing new tax structures. The author advances arguments for and against alternative policies and illustrates his study with international examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. He suggests that countries can learn from each other's experiencees with VAT
Life Phenomenology and Relational Flow
Michel Henry's radical reversal of world-referenced intentionality provides inspiration for drawing out the substantive features of relational flow analysis. To feel what you see is the overarching methodological cue in the consideration of flow affects. Flow moments are telling cues for discerning how there are not so much instances of temporal flux as there are impressions of vital connection that wax and wane in intensity. The depth of these i…
Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment
Language skirts the somatic fringes of the moment, particularly in practices where the powers of human speech and writing seem nullified. Horse training is one such practice. We tell stories of horse training that sensitize us and bring us close to creatures whose movements, resonating with our own, connect us to a prelinguistic, animate world. In so doing, we bridge the gap between the reflective detachment of our customary, wordy practices and …
Becoming InterActive for Life
The overarching purpose of the InterActive for Life (IA4L) project is to mobilize relational knowledge of partnered movement practices for physical education practitioners. Through a participatory, motion-sensing phenomenological methodology, relational knowledge gleaned from world class experts in salsa dance, equestrian arts, push hands Tai Chi and acroyoga, and analyzed through the Function2Flow conceptual model, was shared with Physical Educa…
Gesture, Landscape and Embrace
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh of the world’ speaks to an embodied connection to the spaces we inhabit deeply, primally, elementally. Flesh suggests water and its circulations, air and its respirations, earth and its conformations, fire and its inspirations. Flesh speaks to our bodily relations with the elements of a more-than-human world. This paper explores the felt imperative to these relations where, as Merleau-Ponty put it, ‘all distance is …
Swimming in flow motion
Becoming educated physically need not be confined to gyms, playing fields, dance studios and aquatic complexes. A case in point is that of swimming which serves notice on training the body exclusively by offering an ecologically attuned, movement pedagogy. As an exemplar for the cultivation of the body-subject and its implication in the flesh of world, a phenomenological analysis of swimming provides a somaesthetic rendition of flow motion by hig…
A Human Science Investigation of the Pedagogic Nature of an Exchange Experience
There is a curious division in the school curriculum between those activities which are seen to be necessary for a child's education and those which are considered extracurricular frills. Included in this latter category are not only the activities of clubs, associations, and sporting groups which normally occur outside schooling hours, but also the activities which intrude into the normal school routine and include camps, excursions, and student…
Researching Educational Practice
This slim volume will be familiar to some people, as it appeared in 1976 as a Dutch
Seeing a Risk
Operating on a Child’s Heart
Value Added Tax
This book, by Alan A. Tait, is an examination of VAT. It looks at problems and theoretical options and potential impacts, as well as detailing the practical aspects of implementing new tax structures. The author advances arguments for and against alternative policies and illustrates his study with international examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. He suggests that countries can learn from each other's experiencees with VAT
Remembrances of Childhood as a Source of Pedagogical Understanding
I set out to become a teacher of physical education and along
Physically Remembering Childhood
As we walk along the beach I am reminded of similar excursions some 30 years ago. There is the ribbon of coarse sand looping past dilapidated beach cottages where we combed through mounds of seaweed for cuttlefish shells to take home for the budgerigar. I see the trees close to the Point where we discovered “stink bugs,” small blackspotted beetles of crimson, orange, and turquoise that left an acrid smell on our fingers. And then there are the ch…
The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: In order to elucidate the medical care of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States, we randomly sampled HIV-infected adults receiving medical care in the contiguous United States at a facility other than military, prison, or emergency department facility during the first two months of 1996. We interviewed 76 percent of 4042 patients selected from among the patients receiving care from…
Promoting Vitality in Health and Physical Education
Vitality draws together the interests of health and physical education. Already these fields of education have come together, with health, fitness, wellness, and active and healthy living as shared curricular concepts. Vitality furthers these conjunctions by having us rethink prevailing views of the body of knowledge in health and physical education. More than a concept, vitality is promoted phenomenologically in terms of the essential movements …
Gesture, Landscape and Embrace
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh of the world’ speaks to an embodied connection to the spaces we inhabit deeply, primally, elementally. Flesh suggests water and its circulations, air and its respirations, earth and its conformations, fire and its inspirations. Flesh speaks to our bodily relations with the elements of a more-than-human world. This paper explores the felt imperative to these relations where, as Merleau-Ponty put it, ‘all distance is …
Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment
Language skirts the somatic fringes of the moment, particularly in practices where the powers of human speech and writing seem nullified. Horse training is one such practice. We tell stories of horse training that sensitize us and bring us close to creatures whose movements, resonating with our own, connect us to a prelinguistic, animate world. In so doing, we bridge the gap between the reflective detachment of our customary, wordy practices and …
‘A lot more to learn than where babies come from’
Sexuality education in Australian schools continues to struggle in its ability and willingness to address many of the broader social issues associated with sexuality, such as the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersex and queer (GLBTIQ) students. Studies involving teachers have demonstrated that a reticence on their part to teach GLBTIQ-inclusive sexuality education is driven by a lack of training in handling ‘sensitive’ issues,…
The semiotics of heritage tourism
Dogma before diversity
This paper discusses contradictory imperatives in contemporary Australian pedagogy – the notions of ‘controversy’ and ‘diversity’ as they relate the subjects of genders and sexualities. It is a common view that both gender and sexuality are important organising features of identity, society and politics. Consistent effort is made in the Australian educational context to combat discrimination, prejudice against sexually, and gender ‘diverse’ peopl…
Life Phenomenology and Relational Flow
Michel Henry's radical reversal of world-referenced intentionality provides inspiration for drawing out the substantive features of relational flow analysis. To feel what you see is the overarching methodological cue in the consideration of flow affects. Flow moments are telling cues for discerning how there are not so much instances of temporal flux as there are impressions of vital connection that wax and wane in intensity. The depth of these i…
Swimming in flow motion
Becoming educated physically need not be confined to gyms, playing fields, dance studios and aquatic complexes. A case in point is that of swimming which serves notice on training the body exclusively by offering an ecologically attuned, movement pedagogy. As an exemplar for the cultivation of the body-subject and its implication in the flesh of world, a phenomenological analysis of swimming provides a somaesthetic rendition of flow motion by hig…
Becoming InterActive for Life
The overarching purpose of the InterActive for Life (IA4L) project is to mobilize relational knowledge of partnered movement practices for physical education practitioners. Through a participatory, motion-sensing phenomenological methodology, relational knowledge gleaned from world class experts in salsa dance, equestrian arts, push hands Tai Chi and acroyoga, and analyzed through the Function2Flow conceptual model, was shared with Physical Educa…
Examining the associations between testosterone and biomarkers as men age
OBJECTIVES: Testosterone concentrations in men decline with advancing age. However, the cause of the decline is yet to be fully elucidated. Therefore, the aims of this study were to examine the associations between chronic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with total testosterone (TT) and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), using a large nationally-representative data set (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surv…
Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections
The rhythmic interplay of accent, tempo, and musical mood is expressed in the bodily postures, gestures, and expressions of attuned responsiveness in Salsa Dura, a genre of salsa music from the 1970s featuring improvisational dance solos. These dancers embrace the feelings and flows of soloing musicians going off and breaking free from any predictable form and structure. We inquire into how world-class salsa dancers and educators feel themselves …
Physical literacy, health and interactive aging
Physical literacy (PL), a concept commonly associated with the early years, physical education, and youth sport development, can become a meaningful determinant of health and longevity for the adult and older adult population. A review of 55 recent publications from 2018 to 2023 that encompassed physical literacy conceptual frameworks, assessments, and intervention-based studies was undertaken through an heuristic inspired by the philosophy which…
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