American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - AAHPERD

Alliance Scholar

The Alliance Scholar program promotes scholarship among AAHPERD's members and seeks to encourage and facilitate research and creative activities which will enrich the depth and scope of health, leisure, sport, dance and related activities.

Selected annually, the Alliance Scholar presents the Alliance Scholar Lecture at the AAHPERD National Convention & Exposition. The Scholar disseminates findings to the profession and other interested audiences through presentations at institutional venues in addition to an Internet Web-cast presentation. The Alliance Scholar Lecture is published in one of AAHPERD's journals.

2009-10 Alliance Scholar—Catherine D. Ennis, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Catherine D. Ennis has been an active member of AAHPERD since 1975. She was named as a Research Consortium (RC) Fellow in 1990 and is the current president-elect of the RC.

She has developed two main lines of research; the first focusing on the examination of social and instructional factors that contribute to relevant and meaningful physical education curriculum for students, especially in an urban setting. The second is her internationally known work on the role of teachers’ values and beliefs on their content selection when teaching physical education.

Ennis has an extensive record of research publications, presentations, external grant support, and outreach. Since obtaining her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Georgia, she has authored 70 refereed research publications; 15 book chapters; co-edited a physical education pedagogy research synthesis; co-authored a curriculum text; secured over $1.5 million in external federal grants from the National Institutes of Health to support physical education; presented at countless conferences; and actively engaged in outreach work with surrounding school districts.

She has received many honors for her scholarship in addition to being a RC Fellow, including being inducted as an Active Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education in 1996, and Association Internationale des Becomes Superieures d’Education Physique (AIESEP – International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education in 2006, and the RC in 1990. She has received the NASPE Curriculum and Instruction Honor Award and delivered the RC’s Charles H. McCLoy Lecture.

Ennis will present the Alliance Scholar Lecture at the 2010 convention in Indianapolis, IN, and is available to make official presentations through the Scholar program, which underwrites the costs to your group.