Health and Academic Achievement

Health and Academic Achievement

Author: Blandina Bernal-Morales

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-19

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1789237300

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Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.


Contemporary Advances in Sports Science

Contemporary Advances in Sports Science

Author: Redha Taiar

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1839691409

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Sports are very important and help people increase mobility, optimize performance, and reduce their risk of disease. Sporting activities can have beneficial social, cultural, economic, and psychological effects on health, wellbeing, and the environment. As such, this book discusses a range of principles, methods, techniques, and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge of variables improving sports’ performance processes. Over three sections, chapters consider physical, mechanical, physiological, psychological, and biomechanical aspects of sports performance, sports science, human posture, and musculoskeletal disorders.


Sport and Women

Sport and Women

Author: Gertrud Pfister

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-26

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1134578237

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Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain. This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women from different countries around the world and offers the first systematic and cross-cultural analysis of the topic of women in sport. Sport and Women presents a wealth of new research data, including in-depth case-studies of 16 countries in North and South America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa. In addition, the book offers comparative assessments of the extent to which women are represented in global sport and the opportunities that women have to participate in decision-making processes in sport. The book illuminates a wide range of key international issues in women's sport, such as cultural barriers to participation and the efficacy of political action. It is therefore essential reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology, culture and politics of sport.


International Comparison of Physical Education

International Comparison of Physical Education

Author: Uwe Pühse

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 1841261610

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Even though Physical Education is considered as a basic right of all children, views vary on what comprises quality Physical Education; Huge differences exist between countries and regions. In this important book the situation of Physical Education is compared by means of a worldwide survey. This allows the definition of some universally accepted features and concepts, and of appropriate responses to common problems. It is the first publication to provide concentrated information on the state of PE around the world.


Sports Didactics in Europe

Sports Didactics in Europe

Author: Brigitta Höger

Publisher: Waxmann Verlag

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 3830991673

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During the past decades, the scientific discipline of Sports Didactics has developed in a heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and differentiation from Sports Pedagogy and other sub-disciplines within sports and educational sciences. The significance of Sports Didactics remains closely connected to the role of the school subject Physical Education as well as Physical Education Teacher Education at universities and colleges. This collected volume provides an overview of the subject understandings, theory landscapes, research contexts and practice models across 24 European countries along five lines of investigation: national historical developments of Sports Didactics, main trends and tendencies of theoretical differentiation, application fields of research and theory formation, recent research perspectives and possible future developments.


First Steps

First Steps

Author: Uwe Rheker

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1841260800

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Water enables people to do many things they cannot do any other way. This book introduces an integrated swimming blueprint for beginners, using games and basic experiences, which can be used by many different groups such as toddlers, pre-school and school pupils, disabled children and teenagers, integrated groups, older people etc. The games ......


The American Journal of Sociology

The American Journal of Sociology

Author: Albion W. Small

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 894

ISBN-13:

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Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.