posted on 2009-04-07, 11:45authored byLorraine Cale, Jo Harris
The promotion of physical activity within schools and Physical Education
(PE) has attracted growing interest in recent years. Schools have been
acknowledged as the primary institution with responsibility for promoting
activity in young people and more specifically, school PE has been
recognized as having a key role to play. Given this, and based on previous
reviews of the findings of formally evaluated interventions, this paper
considers the evidence for the effectiveness of school based physical activity
interventions and highlights the key trends and a number of issues
concerning their type, target population, design, implementation and content.
Earlier reviews have provided comprehensive summaries of the
effectiveness of physical activity interventions but they have not provided
specific guidance for teachers’ practice in schools. Thus, whilst it is
acknowledged that the existing literature is not sufficiently extensive to
provide definitive guidelines for schools, this paper considers the
implications for practice and presents recommendations for future physical
activity programmes, initiatives and interventions.
History
School
Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Citation
CALE, L. and HARRIS, J., 2006. School-based physical activity interventions: effectiveness, trends, issues, implications and recommendations for practice. Sport, Education and Society, 11 (4), pp. 401 - 420