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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health-enhancing physical activity; physical education; psychosocial correlates of physical activity in children and adolescents
Interests: philosophy of education; pedagogy; human development
Interests: physical Education; active schools; motor competencies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It has been discussed that, while overturning the obesity epidemic among children is not exclusively the responsibility of schools, the trend is unlikely to change without schools' assistance. Schools are an ideal setting for the implementation of healthy behaviors as children spend an enormous amount of time at school; and because schools already might have the access, personnel, equipment, and space to implement physical activity programming.
Physical activity opportunities in schools take the shape primarily of formal instruction in physical education for all students. Although physical education is a compulsory school subject, the classes may occur infrequently, and children taking them often accumulate only low levels of physical activity. Central for a successful implementation of an “Active School” is a conceptualization embedded in the frame of school development initiatives, achieved by involving all relevant stakeholders, such as teachers, students, parents, and community-based partners.
This Special Issue “Active School Concepts” aims to synthesize current knowledge on opportunities for physical activity in the school environment other than physical education, with an emphasis on including components such as active breaks/recess; active classroom learning; school, modified playground, and classroom design; active and dynamic sitting; active transport to school; active homework; physical activity-related school events; pre-school and after-school clubs and activities; and activity-enhanced physical education. Furthermore, policies and recommendations that may affect these opportunities, as well as barriers to and enablers of the opportunities, will be discussed.
Dr. Francis Ries
Dr. Richard Bailey
Dr. Claude Scheuer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- active schools
- leisure time
- recess
- breaks
- school sports
- active classroom learning and homework
- transportation
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Building Physical Activity Habits for Moving Children at Active Schools
Authors: JeongAe You; Suhak Oh
Affiliation: Chung-Ang University, Korea; Inha University
Abstract: School physical activity aims to promote sustainable movement during daily school lives. Sustainable movements of children at active schools are being made by physical activity habits. Just like other daily human behaviors performed on a daily basis (e.g., brushing teeth, wearing seat-belts, sleeping habit, eating habit etc.), it is very important to make and build good physical activity habits as early as possible in life so the children might persist into all life cycling. Unfortunately, little scholarly attention is given to how to form physical activity habits at school settings. According to Graybiel and Smith(2014), building and breaking habits that are one of human behaviors are strongly related to brain circuits. Thus, discourses on physical activity habits as good habits in school lives should be addressed, focusing on why physical activity habit is important for children and how it is being built in appropriate ways at schools. The purpose of this paper is to explore how to build good physical activity habits for making active schools that could lead children’ sustainable movements in their lives. This paper will be included three parts such as (1) the role of school physical activity in futuristic global society, (2) the rationales of physical activity habits, (3) making active schools throughout physical activity habits.