Physical education programs in schools have the potential to promote healthy, active
lifestyles by providing children with some of their recommended physical activity, increasing …

Traditional conceptions of talent generally emphasise the construction of threshold values
and the development of relatively unitary abilities, and this approach still dominates talent …

This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in
physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects. Data were obtained from the Young Finns Study that
was launched in 1980 and was repeated in 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, and 2007 (26) …

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the
health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators' unpreparedness to …

A models-based approach has been advocated as a means of overcoming the serious
limitations of the traditional approach to physical education. One of the difficulties with this …

The Active Healthy Kids Canada (AHKC) Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and
Youth has been effective in powering the movement to get kids moving by influencing …

In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a
radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of …

Background The debate about a possible relationship between aerobic fitness and motor
skills with cognitive development in children has recently re-emerged, because of the …

OBJECTIVES: To explore the associations between objectively assessed intensity levels of
physical activity and academic achievement and test whether cardiovascular fitness …