The Past Is Prologue: A Developmental Kinesiologist’s Journey Up a Mountain

Kinesiology Review ◽

10.1123/kr.2020-0054 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Jane E. Clark

Keyword(s):

Motor Development ◽

Recent Past ◽

The Past ◽

The Tempest ◽

The Future

The past is prologue, writes Shakespeare in The Tempest. And there seems no better expression to capture the theme of my essay on searching the future of kinesiology in its recent past through my lens as a motor development scholar. Using the developmental metaphor of climbing a mountain amidst a range of mountains, the progressing stages of my development and that of kinesiology are recounted. Over the five-plus decades of my growth as an academic and that of kinesiology, I look for the antecedents and the constraints that shape our change and may shape the future of the field of motor development and kinesiology.

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Motor Development: A Perspective on the Past, the Present, and the Future

Kinesiology Review ◽

10.1123/kr.2021-0023 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Jane E. Clark ◽

Jill Whitall

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Motor Development ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

Scientific Field ◽

Grand Challenges ◽

Scientific Area ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Area Of Study

In 1981, George Brooks provided a review of the academic discipline of physical education and its emerging subdisciplines. Forty years later, the authors review how the field has changed from the perspective of one subdiscipline, motor development. Brooks’s text sets the scene with four chapters on motor development from leaders in the field, including G. Lawrence Rarick, to whom the book is dedicated. From this beginning, the paper describes the evolving scientific perspectives that have emerged since 1981. Clearly, from its past to the present, motor development as a scientific field has itself developed into a robust and important scientific area of study. The paper ends with a discussion of the grand challenges for kinesiology and motor development in the next 40 years.

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Tragedy

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286140.013.0041 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 468-480

Author(s):

Oliver Taplin

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Recent Past ◽

Half Century ◽

The Past ◽

Past Half Century ◽

Object Lessons ◽

The Future ◽

Past Half ◽

Over Time

Tragedy has inspired such feverish activity over the past half-century, both in scholarship and in the theatre, that it is hard to sketch the main lines of past explorations, let alone indicate how they may develop and ramify in the future. This article attempts to do just that. It presents an overview of approaches to tragedy in the recent past, and some divinations about areas of study that may reward interest in the future. Presently, in Greek tragic studies, the solidity of material culture provides a counterbalance to relentless object-lessons in the instability of knowledge. As such, a new emphasis on the changing functions and manifestations of theatre is turning the continual changes in cultural emphasis over time into a positive heuristic resource.

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“Lest We Forget”: A Postapartheid Perspective on Remembering in Liturgy for Healing and Justice

Studia Liturgica ◽

10.1177/0039320720978919 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 60-72

Author(s):

Hilton Scott

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

United Kingdom ◽

South African ◽

South African Context ◽

Recent Past ◽

South Africans ◽

The Past ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Future ◽

African Context

The idea of Remembrance Day (also known as Armistice Day) in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries carries two important notions: (1) to remember significant tragedies and sacrifices of the past by paying homage, and (2) to ensure that such catastrophes are prevented in the future by not forgetting. This concept can be applied to the South African context of a society and young democracy that is living in the wake of apartheid. In certain spheres this will include decolonizing the long-standing practices of Remembrance Day in South Africa, ritualizing the event(s) to be more relevant to those who partake by shifting the focus to tragedies caused during apartheid, and remembering that such a deplorable catastrophe should never be repeated. The important liturgical functions and pragmatic outcome(s) of this notion are reconciliation, restoration, transformation and, ultimately, liberation, as South Africans look to heal the wounds caused by the tragedies of the recent past and prevent such pain from being inflicted on others in the future.

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A Historian Looks Ahead; The Future of Christianity in the Light of its Past

Church History ◽

10.2307/3159909 ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 3-16

Author(s):

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Keyword(s):

Recent Past ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

To Come

What can the past tell us of the future of Christianity? Prophecy is notoriously fallible, especially for far distant years. Historians have seen so many predictions disproved by the event that they are wary of venturing upon the dangerous role of forecasters. Yet trends have a way of continuing. We may not be able to depict with accuracy the details of things to come. We may, however, by observing the directions which movements have been taking in the recent past and by noting the forces which are operating to modify them be able to foretell the main courses which they are to follow for the decades immediately before us. Certainly those who essay to shape policies must attempt such analyses. By their knowledge of the past historians should be of assistance in providing both facts about what has transpired and conjectures to aid in plotting the paths to be pursued.

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