Get moving! A comparison of ideas about body,health and physical activity in materials produced for health education in the Danish Primary School

In the debate over health, one political message has become more and more dominant in western societies over the past decade: Get moving! The logic seems to be that physical activity per se equals better health and that the more physical activity, the better one's health. This logic has, among other things, induced an increased political focus on educational settings and physical education (PE) as a central place for promoting health by increasing physical activity. Today PE is often explicitly identified with health in contemporary school curricula, and this means that PE teachers unavoidably encounter contemporary perceptions of health and physical activity in their professional practice. Taking as its starting point four different teaching resources produced for health education in the Danish Primary School, this article presents four different health cultures and their recommendations for physical activity as a health-promoting practice. The aim is to challenge current perceptions of health and the related recommendations for physical activity in providing a springboard for health communicators and PE teachers to reflect on the health cultures they encounter and maybe to consider how these aligns their own preferred health culture.     

Monitoring health,activity and fitness in physical education: its current and future state of health

Various government policies, strategies and responses in England over the years have highlighted schools and physical education to be instrumental in addressing health and the focus on health has been strengthened within subsequent revisions of the National Curriculum. Whilst this might seem encouraging, concerns have been expressed that such policies and governmental regulation increasingly bear features of a ‘performative culture’ and that these have led to increasingly widespread health surveillance in schools. Linked to this are long-standing concerns over the way in which health is addressed in schools and physical education, as well as over some of the monitoring measures and practices employed within the curriculum. Despite this, little is known about monitoring practices in physical education. This article, therefore, presents findings of a study which aimed to (1) determine the nature, prevalence and purpose of monitoring health, physical activity and physical fitness within the physical education curriculum and (2) establish physical education teachers' views of and approaches to monitoring. The study comprised two phases. The first phase involved a survey completed by Heads of Physical Education in 110 secondary schools from across England, and the second semi-structured interviews with 18 of those from the original sample. The findings revealed monitoring, and in particular fitness monitoring, to be a common feature within the physical education curriculum in many schools. However, a number of issues and limitations associated with monitoring and some of the schools' monitoring practices were identified, and the individualistic nature and performative culture reflected in and reinforced through monitoring were acknowledged as potentially problematic. It was thus suggested that if the findings are typical, then monitoring practice is currently not in a good state of health. The article concludes proposing a way forward for monitoring within physical education in the form of some recommendations for practice.     

关于中小学学生体质健康现状及对策研究--以民勤县中小学学生体质为例

随着素质教育的不断推进,国家对青少年未来体育健康问题高度的关注。国务院下发《关于加强青少年体育增强青少年体质的意见》明确指出,各级中小学利用5年的时间,是全国的中小学学生达到国家体质健康的要求。本文针对甘肃省民勤县中小学学生体质健康存在的问题进行问卷调查和走访,从不同的角度和层次对该县中小学学生体质健康问题存在的因素进行分析,找出影响该县青少年体质健康的瓶颈,并且根据该县中小学学生体质健康水平的实际情况,提出对策。     

知识分子健康现状与学校体育意识

伴随我国经济的快速发展,人们物质水平的显著提高,现代生活节奏的日益加快,我国知识分子群体的健康状况却不容乐观,疾病率与亚健康率令人堪忧。由于知识分子阶层是国家的政治、经济、文化生活的主要推动力量,因此他们的健康状况直接关系到国家的繁荣与社会的安定。良好的体育意识与运动习惯对于改善知识分子人群的健康状况非常重要,学校阶段,特别大学阶段是培养良好体育意识的关键时期,良好的运动习惯则会让学生受益终生。     

高校英才生与普通大学生体质健康状况的对比实验研究——以哈尔滨工业大学为例

文章采用文献资料法、实验法、数理统计法,对高校英才生体质健康状况进行研究与实践.通过对哈尔滨工业大学英才学院学生进行体质测试,并对2009级学生的体质健康状况进行跟踪研究,结果表明：英才生的体质健康水平在大学阶段一直处于良好状态,并呈上升趋势,说明哈尔滨工业大学英才生群体具有较强的体育锻炼意识和行为;在体育教育工作中大力倡导和实施体育俱乐部模式,对于提高学生体质健康具有一定的促进作用,同时也为我国高校大学生体质健康教育改革提供可借鉴的依据.     

浅析愉快体育在“体育与健康”课中的运用

就“愉快体育”教学思想的内涵及特点进行探讨 ,提出将这一教学思想运用于当前中学的“体育与健康”课 ,并就根据这一教学思想建议采用的一些教学方法及应注意的问题谈谈看法     

关于学校体育在学生体质健康教育中的作用与局限的研究

学校体育要树立"健康第一"的指导思想。随着我国教育体制和素质教育改革的不断深入,学生的健康问题也越来越多地受到社会的关注。尤其是最近一段时间,许多关于学生体质健康状况的报道,指出学生体质令人担忧。本文从实验研究入手,通过对数据的分析,来阐述学校对学生体质健康教育的作用与局限。提出的一些看法和建议,希望能为学校体育开展健康教育做有益的探讨。     

Neoliberalism and the future for a socio-educative physical education

Background: This paper represents the Discussant's response to the variety of papers presented to the AIESEP-ICSEMIS symposium entitled: School Physical Education Curricula for Future Generations: Global Patterns? Global Lessons? Glasgow, Glasgow 19–24 July 2012.

Purpose: With reference to the symposium papers, this paper identifies some of the key features of neoliberalism and reflects on the very many challenges they present to Physical Education (PE) in schools and Initial Teacher Education in many countries across the globe.

Findings: The paper highlights the overbearing attention given in government policies in many countries to sport and performance-based curriculum and the reductive distortions it effects in teachers' and pupils' thinking and their pedagogical transactions.

Conclusions: Overgeneralised observations with regard to the practices described in the papers of this edition are unhelpful, while crystal ball gazing, questionable, even in our turbulent, socio-economic circumstances and proffering ‘one-size-fits-all solution’ to them across the globe, might be regarded as particular anathemas. Notwithstanding, this paper suggests that together the perspectives represented in this journal invite serious discussion as to the potential future, and future potential, of PE wherever it occurs. The final analyses call for the protection and celebration of Education in PE and pursuit of culturally sensitive socio-educative principles, eschewing neoliberalism's reductive ideals.     

Narrative inquiry in physical education research: the story so far and its future promise

At a recent international education conference, current life history and narrative research within Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) was criticised for its seeming inability to ‘produce anything new’ and for lacking ‘rigour’. This paper aims to respond to the criticism and to reassert the strengths of narrative inquiry in the current moment. It maps out narrative and life history research (published in English) carried out in PETE, illuminating a spectrum of narrative approaches and a richness of theoretical perspectives. It underscores the need for PETE scholars to acknowledge the broad range of philosophical assumptions about knowledge and how we come to know as this underpins all research, whether carried out within a qualitative or quantitative research tradition, and to develop a climate of mutual respect for these various positions if we are to avoid stagnation, hegemony or blind spots in our research agendas.     

基于终身教育思想对体育课程功能属性的研究

利用文献资料法和比较分析法,比较我国学校终身教育与终身体育思想,发现学校课程中,终身体育与终身教育思想在＂产生背景、课程内容和课程目标＂方面存在分歧。深入分析体育课程的功能属性,发现体育课程在学校课程文化功能层面上的缺失。通过对体育课程的重新考察,得出体育课程的基本功能属性是＂运动技战术学习＂;以此为依据,得出学校终身体育思想应是＂培养学生终身学习体育运动的意识和能力＂。     

Targeting Mr average: participation,gender equity and school sport partnerships

The School Sport Partnership Programme (SSPP) is one strand of the national strategy for physical education and school sport in England, the physical education and school sport Club Links Strategy (PESSCL). The SSPP aims to make links between school physical education (PE) and out of school sports participation, and has a particular remit to raise the participation levels of several identified under-represented groups, of which girls and young women are one. National evaluations of the SSPP show that it is beginning to have positive impacts on young people's activity levels by increasing the range and provision of extra curricular activities (Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), 2003, 2004, 2005; Loughborough Partnership, 2005, 2006). This paper contributes to the developing picture of the phased implementation of the programme by providing qualitative insights into the work of one school sport partnership with a particular focus on gender equity. The paper explores the ways in which gender equity issues have been explicitly addressed within the ‘official texts’ of the SSPP; how these have shifted over time and how teachers are responding to and making sense of these in their daily practice. Using participation observation, interview and questionnaire data, the paper explores how the coordinators are addressing the challenge of increasing the participation of girls and young women. The paper draws on Walby's (2000) conceptualisation of different kinds of feminist praxis to highlight the limitations of the coordinators’ work. Two key themes from the data and their implications are addressed: the dominance of competitive sport practices and the PE professionals’ views of targeting as a strategy for increasing the participation of under-represented groups. The paper concludes that coordinators work within an equality or difference discourse with little evidence of the transformative praxis needed for the programme to be truly inclusive.     

心理健康教育与学校体育

本文就实践中体育教学对学生心理健康的影响及促进方法进行了论述,旨在为学生心理健康教育的全面发展提供参考。     

《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示:动因、问题与推进方略

基于建设开放型政府的时代背景,公平与质量兼顾的教育理念,集中力量办大事的发展逻辑是《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示实施的基础动因。但《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示实施的面不够广,具体体现在参与地区少,公示领域窄;《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示实施的点不够深,具体体现在应付性、随意性、片面性的公开居多。其原因在于信息保密的惯性思维,公示的法律约束有限,公示实施的模糊规定。通过赋予《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示的法律地位,明确《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示的责任机制,构建《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示的评价体系,加大《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示的价值利用,是推进《国家学生体质健康标准》测试结果公示实施的基本方略。     

健康教育与学校体育教育模式改革的研究

学校体育立“素质教育”、树“健康第一”的指导思想是新时期学校体育发展的必然走向。但学校体育其健康教育还停留于形式上,还没有完全从原有的模式跳出来。学校体育改革就是要我们去做一种与以往不同、但能达到以增进健康为主要目的的体育活动。从大众体育健康的角度,忽视或不要去刻意追求过去哪种生理“波峰”的传统模式。     

Letter to the editor concerning the article “Relationship between school rhythm and physical activity in adolescents: the HELENA study” by Vanhelst et al. (2017)

Recently Vanhelst et al. published a study on the relationship between school rhythm and physical activity patterns in European adolescents in the Journal of Sports Sciences. With this Letter to the Editor we would like to comment on the practical implementation and further perspectives of the study.     

Health and wellbeing: a policy context for physical education in Scotland

The ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ (CfE) guidelines and associated learning experiences and outcomes have been developed following a national debate on the purposes of education in Scotland. The recent development shifts physical education's (PE) role in Scottish education, changing from contributing to the ‘Expressive Arts’ area of the curriculum, to one central to the newly created curriculum area of ‘Health and wellbeing’ in the CfE. This paper provides an analysis of the broader policy context at national and global levels examining the policy developments for PE in Scotland situating them within a globalised discourse emphasising concerns about ill-health and obesity within society. Drawing on the work of Bowe et al., the paper examines the context of production and the context of influence that has contributed to the recent development of ‘Health and wellbeing’ within the CfE. It is argued that the role for PE and the focus on schools promoting daily physical activity within the CfE masks the complexity of addressing the issues of health and well-being. In conclusion it is highlighted that in the interpretation and implementation of policy there will be further issues for PE and as yet unknown consequences for the context of practice and pupils' experiences of PE in Scotland.     

福州市职业中专学生体质健康状况研究

依据《国家学生体质健康标准》,对福州市中等职业学校学生的身体形态、身体机能、身体素质等3方面的测试数据进行统计,并与全国2010年全国《国民体质监测公报》中13-19岁青少年各项体质指标平均数进行比较,找出职业中专学生与全国同龄学生体质健康的差异所在,并分析其主要原因,同时对职业中专学生体质健康的发展提出进一步改进的对策。     

Fuzhou Vocational School Student＇ s Physical Health Status

依据《国家学生体质健康标准》,对福州市中等职业学校学生的身体形态、身体机能、身体素质等3方面的测试数据进行统计,并与全国2010年全国《国民体质监测公报》中13—19岁青少年各项体质指标平均数进行比较,找出职业中专学生与全国同龄学生体质健康的差异所在,并分析其主要原因,同时对职业中专学生体质健康的发展提出进一步改进的对策。     

高校综合素质测评体系中的体育因素分析

运用文献资料法和调查法对目前高校综合测评体系进行研究,并着重分析了与大学生健康状况相关的体育指标体系的现状,提出要充分发挥高校综合测评体系的导向功能和激励作用,解决日益严重的大学生健康问题,实现其全面健康发展。     

体育俱乐部课程内容设置对大学生体质健康的影响研究

普通高校在校大学生的体质健康测试水平情况呈下降趋势,究竟原因,体育课程内容安排的紧密程度和学生锻炼水平的提高对大学生体质健康的影响较深,文章从体育课程内容设置和体质健康测试内容相结合角度出发,有针对性地进行安排运动项目和课程内容,旨在为大学生提高身体素质水平的同时,对学生体质健康工作奠定理论基础。