Richard B Kent's scientific contributions

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Article
Published in cooperation with the National Writing Project, Writing on the Bus showcases the what, how, and why of using athletic team notebooks and journals. The book guides coaches and athletes, from elementary school through college, in analyzing games while thinking deeply about motivation, goal setting, and communication in order to optimize p...

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... While some initial work has been done around adapting different genres (Ballenger & Deaney, 2006), like expressive writing (Wentzell, 1989) or journaling, to the PE classroom, the impact of these findings has not been measured. On the other hand, research indicates that literate tasks like reading alphabetic or numerical texts, journaling (Behrman, 2004;Kent, 2012;2014), making charts or diagrams, or motif writing (Venable, 1998) are already a part of team sports, individual sports, and personal health and fitness practices, though not the PE classroom. With no research reporting on the extent of disciplinary literacy practices in PE classrooms, and my own anecdotal experience observing in multiple PE classrooms in a variety of communities, it seems as though few of these authentic literacy practices have found wide-spread implementation in PE classrooms in schools. ...