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Download full textDrabier, Renee; Ramirez, Linda Y.; Fimmen, Carol P. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2020
This study is an analysis of student reflective advice written to future semester abroad students based upon their personal experience in a semester study abroad program. In December 2018, 36 Mexican students wrote individual letters during an end-of-term session in which they were asked to reflect upon their semester abroad experience in San…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Student Experience
Direct linkAres-Pernas, Ana; Carvajal, Carmen Coronado; Gomis Rodríguez, Alfonso; Fernández Ibáñez, María Isabel; Díaz Casás, Vicente; Zaragoza Fernández, María Sonia; Bouza Fernández, María Sonia; Santos Pita, Manuela del Pilar; García Allut, Antonio Domingo; Comesaña Pérez, María Pilar; Caínzos López, María Jesús; Feal Cabezón, Belén; Torres Miño, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to present and describe the main actions carried out in six different faculties and common areas such as cultural and research centres and administrative buildings in the Ferrol campus at the University of A Coruña to achieve the second green flag on a Galician University. Design/methodology/approach: A case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
Donnelly, Samantha; Buchan, Duncan S.; Gibson, Ann-Marie; Mclellan, Gillian; Arthur, Rosie – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
School-based health activities that involve parents are more likely to be effective for child health and well-being than activities without a parent component. However, such school-based interventions tend to recruit the most motivated parents, and limited evidence exists surrounding the involvement of hard-to-reach parents with low socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Participation, Low Income Groups
Peña, Armando; McNeish, Daniel; Ayers, Stephanie L.; Olson, Micah L.; Vander Wyst, Kiley B.; Williams, Allison N.; Shaibi, Gabriel Q. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Objective: To characterize the heterogeneity in response to lifestyle intervention among Latino adolescents with obesity. Methods: We conducted secondary data analysis of 90 Latino adolescents (age 15.4 ± 0.9 y, female 56.7%) with obesity (BMI% 98.1 ± 1.5%) that were enrolled in a 3 month lifestyle intervention and were followed for a year.…
Descriptors: Life Style, Intervention, Hispanic Americans, Adolescents
Mertoglu, Hatice; Senöz, Ahmet Burak; Bahar, Aysenur – Online Submission, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of nutrition and sexual health education on healthy lifestyle behaviours of teacher candidates (HLSB). In the research, a quasi-experimental research one-group pretest-posttest design, a quantitative research method, was used. The sample of the study consisted of 60 pre-service teachers studying…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Health Education, Life Style, Preservice Teachers
Bell, Martha – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2017
Adventure has outgrown its use as a metaphor and motive for educational journeys into the cultural outdoors. Self-reliance cannot counter the mechanisation of everyday life. "Adventure" is produced and serviced by the very people who felt its worth to their own individualisation and now advance its professionalisation for their own…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Outdoor Education, Risk, Learning Theories
Yli-Piipari, Sami; Gråstén, Arto; Huhtiniemi, Mikko; Salin, Kasper; Jaakkola, Timo – European Physical Education Review, 2022
One of the central goals of school physical education (PE) is to improve physical literacy in youth to nurture their ability, confidence, and desire to be physically active for life. The aim of this study was to examine the stability of the selected PE-centered physical literacy indicators on school students' objectively measured…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Knowledge Level, Health Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Kane, Natasha; Neutzling, Misti; St. George, Sara M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: Obesity and physical inactivity are serious public health concerns in the United States (US) and globally. COVID-19 restrictions are resulting in decreased physical activity (PA) levels among children. Purpose: To determine barriers and challenges to PA promotion among children during COVID-19 and inform a PA promotion video. Methods:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Video Technology, Intervention
Paulson, Anna; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; van der Mars, Hans – Physical Educator, 2022
This study sought to address the large gap in the literature regarding parents' roles and views about physical education programs. Guided by Epstein's model of parental involvement, this study investigated the effect of increased parental involvement in a child's physical education program on parents' perceptions of that program. Participants…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent Attitudes, Physical Education
Weng, Chung-Bang; Sheu, Jiunn-Jye; Chen, Huey-Shys – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
Adolescents often practice unhealthy behaviors to lose weight or keep from gaining weight. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) of various health risk behaviors since 1991 using U.S. representative samples of high school students and is therefore best for us to identify risk/preventive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Body Weight, Health Behavior
Akandere, Mehibe; Arslan, Fatma; Cakmakci, Evrim – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of empathy for regularly exercising women and to determine whether empathy levels differ according to some variables. The study is planned as a single group pretest-posttest. 178 sedentary and healthy adult women participated in the study as a volunteer. Aerobic-Dance Exercise program was…
Descriptors: Females, Empathy, Athletics, Exercise
Burns, Melanie C. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Condom use among Australian adolescents has been shown to be variable, despite good knowledge among this group about sexual health risks and the promotion of condoms as a simple way to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections. This study explores dominant constructions of condom use within two Australian lifestyle magazines targeted…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Behavior, Periodicals, Health Promotion
Crawford, Susan – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018
This innovative manual sets out advice on fundamental movement skill acquisition (FMS) and its benefits for improving physical, verbal and social skills for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Improving FMS can help prevent long term health issues, and increase opportunities for social engagement and independence. The book explores the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development
Barker, Dean; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Johansson, Anna; Korp, Peter – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
Aim: To provide insight into how physical education teachers use discursive resources related to obesity to create particular professional identities. Method: Data come from focus group and individual interviews with physical education teachers in Sweden. Discourse theory on teacher identities frame the analysis of the empirical material. Results:…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Obesity, Professional Identity, Caring
Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Tao; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Chu, Tsz Lun; Weiller-Abels, Karen H. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: Classroom teachers can play an important role in supporting the implementation of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programme (CSPAP) by integrating physical activity (PA) into academic lessons, providing PA opportunities at recess and becoming role models for school-aged children. Grounded in the expectancy-value model, the goal…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Early Childhood Education, Beliefs
