Selection committee chair Niharendu Biswas congratulates Victoria Paraschak, recipient of the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award.
Kinesiology professor Victoria Paraschak received the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award at a reception May 2.
Levelling the playing field: a public meeting May 3 will discuss building safe, inclusive, equitable sport organizations.
A public meeting May 3 will discuss building safe, inclusive, equitable sport organizations.
Kinesiology professor Victoria Paraschak will receive the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award at a reception on May 2.
Kinesiology professor Victoria Paraschak will receive the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award at a reception on May 2.
Most research discussing ways to improve physical fitness in targeted groups starts from what might be termed a “deficit” perspective: studying the problems and challenges faced by the group, and looking at how to target and ameliorate these deficits.
A “strengths” approach starts instead from the assumption that all groups and individuals have certain strengths, and looks at ways individuals assisting the group can work with them to further develop those strengths.
