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Pablo Saiz-González; Damián Iglesias; Javier Fernández-Río – Quest, 2024
Pedagogical models have been described as suitable for promoting positive outcomes in the physical domain of learning. Is this enough in the battle against sedentary lifestyles? To answer this question, a systematic search of four scientific literature databases was conducted. The articles were included if they met the following criteria: (1)…
Descriptors: Models, Teaching Methods, Intention, Physical Activity Level
Dattilo, John – Sagamore-Venture, 2021
As we grow through leisure education, we tend to manage challenges to leisure and gravitate to positive experiences. These positive encounters transport us toward achieving the ultimate goals of experiencing leisure, being happy, and flourishing. The intention of "Leisure Education Program Planning, fifth edition," is to share…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Program Development, Learning Experience, Models
Harmon, Justin – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2018
In the last decade, some in the field of leisure studies have embraced the experience economy/industry model introduced by Pine and Gilmore (2011) in the late 1990s. While tenets of the experience industry can be found earlier in leisure studies, especially in regards to programing and event management, the idea that experiences should be…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Experience, Industry, Economics
Madsen, Esben Elholm; Elbe, Anne-Marie; Krustrup, Peter; Larsen, Carsten Hvid; Larsen, Malte Nejst; Madsen, Mads; Hansen, Tina – Cogent Education, 2021
The trans-contextual model (TCM) offers a heuristic-based theoretical framework to understand fifth-grade Danish schoolchildren's motivation to participate in the 11 for Health in Denmark educational football concept, as well as their intention and behaviour to participate in vigorous physical activity (PA) in a leisure-time context. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Content Validity, Context Effect, Models
de Maio Nascimento, Marcelo; Giannouli, Eleftheria – Educational Gerontology, 2019
This descriptive paper presents the model of the Brazilian Universities of the Third Age (U3A). In a country with 208 million inhabitants and accelerated population aging, U3A's set of regular courses, lectures, workshops and group dynamics serve as a low-cost and high-efficacy strategy that promotes lifelong education and social integration.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
Guerrero, Michelle; Munroe-Chandler, Krista – Quest, 2018
Imagery research with children has been primarily examined within a structured physical activity context. However, researchers have begun to investigate children's imagery use in their active play (i.e., unstructured leisure-time physical activity). The objective of the present article was to develop a conceptual model of active play imagery--the…
Descriptors: Models, Play, Children, Leisure Time
Wu, Ting-Fang; Chen, Cheng-Ming; Lo, Hui-Shan; Yeh, Yao-Ming; Chen, Ming-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
The purpose of this study was to develop an explanatory model for the information and communication technology (ICT) competencies of students with and without learning disabilities (LD). A conceptual model was proposed, and included five major constructs: (1) attitude towards using ICT, (2) ICT competency, (3) demographic characteristics, (4) ICT…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Technological Literacy, Information Technology, Elementary School Students
Aslan, Nese; Cansever, Belgin Arslan – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This study focused on prospective teachers' leisure behaviors. For this purpose, 47 fourth grade undergraduate students in Faculty of Education in Ege University, Izmir, Turkey participated. A qualitative research design was used in the study. In the process of analysing the data, Greimas' Actant Model as one of the analysing models in Semiology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Leisure Time, Undergraduate Students
Hartel, Jenna; Cox, Andrew M.; Griffin, Brian L. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Background: In the past decade, scholars of information science have started to conduct research on information behaviour in serious leisure. Presently, these studies lack common concepts and terms and empirical discoveries are not easy to assemble into theory. Aim: This conceptual and methodological paper surveys the aforementioned research area…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Literature Reviews, Models, Recreational Activities
Ntovolis, Yannis; Barkoukis, Vassilis; Michelinakis, Evaggelos; Tsorbatzoudis, Haralambos – Physical Educator, 2015
Elementary school physical education can play a prominent role in promoting children's leisure-time physical activity. The trans-contextual model of motivation has been proven effective in describing the process through which school physical education can affect students' leisure-time physical activity. This model has been tested in secondary…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Physical Education, Motivation, Models
Talafha, Feras – International Education Studies, 2015
This study examines the level of psychographic attributes among the preparatory year students enrolled at the University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The study sample consists of 209 students chosen with the help of random sampling and questionnaire survey was employed for data collection. Based on the findings, the entire study variables, which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Models, Learning
Higuita-Gutiérrez, Luis Felipe; Cardona-Arias, Jaiberth Antonio – School Mental Health, 2016
The purpose of this study was to develop a predictive population model with respect to quality of life, school violence, and family dynamics in adolescent students from Medellín, Colombia. Cross-sectional, explanatory study was realized with 3460 adolescents using probability sampling for selection. Structural equation modeling was performed. The…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Quality of Life, Physical Health
Bradley, Graham L.; Inglis, Brad C. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Leisure provides the context for much of adolescent behaviour and development. While both theory and research point to the benefits of participation in leisure activities that are highly structured, the association between structured leisure and psychosocial adjustment is not uniformly high. This paper presents a model of adolescent leisure…
Descriptors: Evidence, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Ward, Peter J.; Zabriskie, Ramon B. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2011
Family leisure involvement may provide the first and most essential context for positive youth development in today's society. Similar to the broader ecological perspective used in the youth development literature, family systems theory suggests that each individual in the family influences the whole, while the whole family also influences each…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Youth Programs, Systems Approach, Leisure Time
Hagger, Martin S.; Chatzisarantis, Nikos L. D. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2012
Students' self-determined or autonomous motivation in educational contexts is associated with adaptive educational and behavioural outcomes including persistence on educational tasks and academic performance. A key question for educators is whether promoting autonomous motivation toward activities in an educational context leads to increased…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Leisure Time, Self Concept