Physical Activity and Active Proposals as a Pathway to Enhance Intelligence and Cognitive/Academic Variables in Young People
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 912
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical education; active learning; active methodologies; didactic; neuroscience; cognition
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Dear Colleagues,
Intelligence is defined as the cognitive capacity to comprehend, reason, and make informed decisions in response to specific circumstances. Advances in neuroeducation over recent decades have highlighted physical activity as a key factor for the optimal development of intelligence from early ages. This is a current topic due to the high number of projects with an interest in the relationship between these aspects. Variables such as physical education, physical activity before, during, and after the school, as well as specific physically active interventions, have emerged as very interesting stimuli to affect intelligence and cognitive or academic variables during childhood. Potential topics for this Special Issue are presented below, and we remain open to other proposals along similar lines that may bring innovation and novelty to these areas of interest.
Potential topics:
- Physical activity and intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in young people.
- Active commuting or active starts and intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in young people.
- Active recesses/active breaks and intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in schoolchildren.
- Physical education and intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in young people.
- Active teaching and learning to improve intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in young people.
- Effects of physical activity on intelligence or cognitive/academic performance variables in young people.
- Didactic and psychological factors that affect intelligence or cognitive/academic performance in young people.
Empirical research, qualitative, quantitative or mixed analyses, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and case studies will be considered. Longitudinal or cross-sectional studies that track any of these variables annually or even offer comparisons between countries and/or cultures will also be considered. The presentations of other analyses on related topics is also welcome and encouraged and these will be discussed amongst the Editors as to whether they are suitable.
Prof. Dr. Alberto Ruiz-Ariza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- physical education
- physical activity
- exercise
- active learning
- neuroscience
- intelligence
- cognitive performance
- academic performance
- cognition
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