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Shih, Ching-Hsiang; Lai, Man-Chi; Chang, Man-Ling; Chang, Chia-Jui – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Most individuals with intellectual disability (ID) lack the motivation and willingness to do exercise on their own. The purpose of this study was to apply the response-stimulation strategy to encourage three overweight students with ID to engage in walking/running. This was a preliminary study to implement the strategy by using a dance pad…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Obesity, Exercise
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Gallagher, Shaun – Educational Theory, 2018
On an enactivist conception of cognition, the unit of explanation is not just the brain, not just the body, and not just the environment, but the body--brain--environment understood as a dynamically coupled structure or gestalt. On this view, referencing Viktor von Weizsäcker's metaphor of the gestalt circle (Gestaltkreis), the brain is not in the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Brain, Human Body, Interaction
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Miller, Leslie; And Others – Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 1996
A lack of gender-sensitive computer games exacerbates female disinterest in technology. Girls-only focus groups revealed phenomena that may help software developers awaken girls' enthusiasm for computing. For instance, girls placed a premium on richly textured video and audio, on collaborating rather than competing, on interacting with male…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Development