Kinesiology Summary

The purpose of this paper was to address the challenges of how the field of kinesiology can exploit the advantages of multiple scholarly emphases while minimizing the disadvantages. The author claims that this is important to the absence or presence of agendas determines the coherence or fragmentation of both the department and the field. Due to the multiple agendas immediately raise doubts about the potential of a single department or even the field at large to fill these agendas successfully or even adequately.

The author expresses concern to the de-emphasize and elimination for practice and performance of physical activity in kinesiology departments. The author then extrapolates this to suggest that “the reduced emphasis of practice only