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Frank Devereux; Enda Whyte; Nathan Gavigan; Siobhan O'Connor – European Physical Education Review, 2024
Despite calls for injury prevention exercise programmes (IPEPs) to move to school settings for the general adolescent population, current research has had mixed outcomes regarding their efficacy in schools as many of the traditional barriers to IPEP implementation still exist, for example, lack of engagement with the programme. A games-based…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Secondary Education, Injuries, Prevention
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Armour, Kathleen M.; Chambers, Fiona C. – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
The European Union Sport Unit has identified the societal and educational role of sport as a central topic in its new research agenda. It is argued that European Union (EU) citizens should be supported to learn continuously across the life course. In the sport/physical activity (PA) context, the role of teachers, coaches and exercise instructors…
Descriptors: Exercise, Athletics, Physical Education, Teaching Methods
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Zhang, Qi; Lu, Zhouxiang – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The current study investigates the applications of the pinyin input system, a Chinese word processing method, for writing on Facebook in order to help CFL (Chinese as a foreign language) learners from two Irish universities to improve their handwriting in Chinese characters on paper. The data were collected from writing activities conducted over…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Orthographic Symbols, Alphabets, Chinese
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O'Donoghue, Grainne; Doody, Catherine; Cusack, Tara – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine physiotherapy students' perceptions of current education content of entry-level physiotherapy programmes in terms of physical activity (PA) and exercise promotion and prescription (EPP). Sixty-two physiotherapy students from three Irish Universities participated. Three Structured Group Feedback Sessions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Physical Activities, Student Attitudes