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Warner, Marika; Robinson, Jackie; Heal, Bryan; Lloyd, Jennifer; Mandigo, James; Lennox, Bess; Davenport Huyer, Larkin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2021
Regular physical activity significantly improves health outcomes, yet rates of childhood physical activity remain alarmingly low. Physical literacy has been identified as the foundation for quality physical education, suggesting that sport, education, and public health interventions should seek to increase physical literacy to promote physical…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Child Development, Day Camp Programs, Children
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Anuchin, I. A.; Belikov, A. A.; Denisov, A. A.; Kupriyanov, B. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2017
This article is dedicated to the 2015 Russian summer recreation campaign for children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 18. The data presented will prove useful to experts in the field of public policy in education as a starting point for further analysis. [This article was translated by Kenneth Cargill.]
Descriptors: Vacations, Summer Programs, Children, Foreign Countries
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Matney, Gabriel – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2018
The study described here is a longitudinal qualitative case study conducted on a mathematics pre-service teaching program at a university in Southeast Asia. The university program of study required all pre-service teachers of mathematics to be involved in an alternative form of field experience in which the pre-service teachers would enact…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Professionalism, Preservice Teachers
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Esentas, Melike; Özbey, Selhan; Güzel, Pinar – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This study aims to determine the role of youth camp practices, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in the development of self-awareness and leadership skills of female students participating in youth camps. As a result of analysis of the data collected with triangulation method--observation, focus group discussions and document…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Leadership Qualities
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Eler, Serdar – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This study was conducted for determining the effects of trainings, applied to athletes during short term camp period, on their aerobic and anaerobic performance. Measurements were made by the participation of 28 volunteer male ice hockey national team players. During the 15-day camp period, 10-minute running and stretching for warming and then…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Exercise, Volunteer Training
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Michel, Hanno; Neumann, Irene – Science & Education, 2016
Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 6, Grade 7, Energy