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A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dr. Zeigler has taught, coached, researched, and administered programs at four universities. (Western Ontario [twice]; Michigan, Ann Arbor; Illinois, UIUC; Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Yale.) He has published 58 books and 445 articles. Eight of the top awards in his held in North America have been bestowed on him. He has received three honorary doctorates and is listed in Who’s Who in Canada, Who’s Who in America, & Who’s Who in the World.
As author, I (Earle Zeigler) thought “the world” would be a better place for all people by the turn of the 21st century. However, it doesn’t seem to be heading in that direction; so, I am forced to conclude: (1) that in many ways we are confused about what our values are at the present, (2) that we need to reconsider them and then re-state exactly what we believe they are in light of the changing times and, finally, (3) that we will then need to assess more carefully—on a regular basis!—whether we are living up to those values we finally choose and then so often in the past have glibly espoused with insufficient commitment to bring them to pass.
My main concern in this book, however, is (1) the way that America is using competitive sport in society for the wrong purposes and (2) the fact that America doesn’t recognize that physical activity education, including related health education and intramural athletics for the large majority of children and youth in education, has not been recognized for the outstanding contribution it could make to the lives of children and young people in their formative years especially.
Looking at sport specifically, we are permitting the type of sport competition in which fair play, honesty, and sportsmanship actually decline in the course of a university experience. We continue to promote the idea that winning is the only thing that matters! Further, we promote the idea that competitive sport is good for young people, but then neglect to arrange for intramural athletics in the schools for the large majority of children and youth. At the same time we arrange for athletic scholarships whether the young person has financial need or not! Finally, I regret to say that we have just scratched the surface with what I have reported above. And I haven’t even mentioned the “doping problem”!
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940046088144 |
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| Publisher: | Fideli Publishing, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 07/21/2014 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 381 KB |
About the Author
A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dr. Zeigler has taught, coached, researched, and administered programs at four universities. (Western Ontario [twice]; Illinois, UIUC; Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Yale.) He has published 56 books and 451 articles. He has received the top six awards in his field in North America. Zeigler has received three honorary doctorates and is listed in Who’s Who in Canada, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.
In this autobiography Dr. Zeigler tells his life story to the present. He describes the “ups” and “downs” of both his personal and professional experiences. Born at the end of World War I in New York City, Earle tells how his divorced mother, Margery, and his grandparents raised him. Then, when his mother remarried, they moved to Norwalk, CT where his stepfather (“Chaplain Jim”) was a pastor. Completing junior and senior high school, he went off to Bates College and a bit of graduate study in physical and health education at Columbia Teachers College. He also completed a master’s degree in German and a Ph.D. in Education at Yale University.
In his 70 years of experience with the field of sport and physical activity education (including athletics), he worked in the Bridgeport, CT YMCA briefly, and then went to teach, coach, and administer programs in sequence at Yale University, Western University in Canada, The University of Michigan, University of Illinois, and finally back again to Western University as dean of a new faculty where he remained until 1989. He had been active in semi-retirement to the present day. Starting in the new century, he has published 22 books and 21 articles to the present day.
Earle does his best to make this life story both interesting and humorous. Just as he was about to reach the pinnacle of his career, 3 staff members in his department at Illinois were involved in what became known as “The Illinois Slush-Fund Scandal”. Finally realizing that intercollegiate athletics in America was “hopeless”, and that a great deal about American values was beginning to “turn him off”, Zeigler became a Canadian citizen, also shortly after becoming dean of a new college in his field at Western University in Ontario. He is now “actively” semi-retired, still “writing away” in British Columbia at age 93.