Abstract des Autors

In his 1995 NAPEHE keynote address, the late Ernest Boyer laid out a new vision of scholarship - one that allows for a much more powerful and effective academic-civic dialogue. Since then, the service movement that began gathering momentum in the early 1990s has only continued to grow. Sponsoring both faculty professional service and student-mediated efforts, academic institutions across the country are finding new value in community engagement. That engagement, in turn, has highlighted many important questions about the way in which academics go about their work. Nowhere would the fit between the emerging service agenda and disciplinary interests seem to be more natural than in the area of physical education. Verf.-Referat