Keynote speakers
David Stodden, University of South Carolina, USA
Laura Alfrey, Monash University, Australia
Christian Herrmann, Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland
Gregor Jurak, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
David Stodden, Professor
Director of Human Performance and Development Laboratory
Department of Physical Education, University of South Carolina
Title of the presentation: Exploring Current and New “Thoughts” on Motor Competence Assessment from a Holistic Perspective: Enhancing Predictive Utility for Executive Function, Behavioral, and Physical Health Outcomes
Dr. Stodden is the Director of the Human Performance and Development Laboratory in the Department of Physical Education at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on promoting the development of motor competence and its association to aspects of physical, (health-related physical fitness, physical activity, and obesity), psychological (perceived competence, self-efficacy) and cognitive health across the lifespan. Dr. Stodden’s research emphasizes the need to address and understand developmental mechanisms and causal pathways that impact long-term trajectories of health and well-being. His work also addresses the need to examine assessment in motor competence to improve its predictive utility on various outcomes. To date, he has over 125 publications and has been cited over 9600 times. Dr. Stodden’s research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Duke Endowment Foundation and National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
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Laura Alfrey, Senior Lecturer
School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusion
Faculty of Education, Monash University
Title of the presentation: Youth Voice and the Co-design of Fitness Education and Assessment in Physical Education
Laura is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia). Her work examines how, why and to what ends productive partnerships with young people, teachers and other stakeholders can support the co-creation of more educative and equitable Physical Education within and beyond schools. Laura works closely with the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and has carried out research funded by the Department of Education and Training (Australia), VicHealth (Australia), Special Olympics Australia, Sport Taranaki (New Zealand) and the Youth Sport Trust (England).
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Christian Herrmann, Professor, Dr. Phil. Habil.
Chair of Didactics, Exercise and Sport, Physical Education Research Group
Zurich University of Teacher Education
Title of the presentation: Basic Motor Competences in Physical Education. Rationale, Assessment and Development
Christian Herrmann completed his doctoral thesis at the universities of Bayreuth, Mainz and Jena on the topic of “Psychosocial resources in youth sport”. During his post-doc phase, he worked at the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health (DSBG) at the University of Basel. He completed his habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) about “Basic Motor Competencies” at the Educational Sciences Unit of the University of Potsdam in Germany. Currently Christian Herrmann is Professor of Didactics Exercise and Sport at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. Within the framework of empirical educational research, his research focuses on test development, basic motor competencies and the quality of teaching and learning in Physical Education.
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Gregor Jurak, Professor
Head of SLOfit Research Group
Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana
Title of the presentation: Physical Fitness Monitoring in School Setting: Why and How?
Gregor Jurak is Full Professor on University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, and Head of SLOfit research team, an enthusiastic and highly competitive international and interdisciplinary group of experienced and young researchers which investigate beneficial effects of physical fitness and 24-hour movement behaviour on individual and public health, especially on children and adolescents. He is engaged in introducing various strategical measures in Slovenian sport, education and health-care systems. Internationally, he is active in CEREPS, EUPEA, FIEP, AISEP, FitBack, NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance and DE-PASS. He is principal investigator and co-worker in several international and national projects.
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