Physical Education in Early Childhood

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on Physical Education in the Early Childhood in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Scholars around the world are worried about the insufficient amounts of children’s physical activity. Moreover, there are signs that the level of motor competence in children may have decreased over the past decades. Children have the right to grow and develop towards their full potential and health. Physical education and good intervention programs as part of different early childhood education settings can be a good way to support young children’s overall development and health.

This Special Issue is open to submissions that study physical education in different early childhood education (ECE) settings. We invite high-quality manuscripts focusing on physical activity and motor competence intervention programs in early childhood education settings. Different social–emotional, cognitive, or other intervention programs as part of physical education or physical activity intervention programs in ECE settings are of interest. Studies of the trends and comparisons of preschool aged children’s physical education curriculums, physical activity, and motor competence are highly warranted.

The supplemental keywords below suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Dr. Arja Sääkslahti
Dr. Kristy Howells
Prof. Dr. Kristine De Martelaer
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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