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Cheng Deng; Maureen Legge – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Health and Physical Education (HPE) has been an important learning area in the "New Zealand Curriculum" (NZC) since the two learning areas were integrated in the 1990s. HPE in the NZC proposed a multi-dimensional education vision, principles and values for students' holistic development founded upon theoretical perspectives such as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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Melissa Pearrow; Whitney Walker; Jill S. Battal; Brian Daniels; Amy Kaye; Alexis Ervin – Middle School Journal, 2025
Early adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive, psychosocial, and physical development, and an array of contextual factors, such as systemic racism, exert significant influence. Universal behavioral health screening data of 4,234 middle school students were examined to explore the influence of demographic (e.g. ethnicity, race) and contextual…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Health Behavior
Slate, John R.; Jones, Craig H.; Wiesman, Karen; Alexander, Jeanie; Saenz, Tracy – New Horizons in Education, 2008
Background: Schools in K-12 have generated mission statements as ways of focusing their efforts and energies in specific areas. These mission statements vary by institutional setting as a function of the stakeholders and constituent groups who facilitate their development. To date, no studies were located in which the mission statements of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Investigations, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education