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Health Promotion Interventions in Sports Clubs: Can We Talk about a Setting-Based Approach? A Systematic Mapping Review
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Geidne, Susanna; Kokko, Sami; Lane, Aoife; Ooms, Linda; Vuillemin, Anne; Seghers, Jan; Koski, Pasi; Kudlacek, Michal; Johnson, Stacey; Van Hoye, Aurélie – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Many researchers and authorities have recognized the important role that sports clubs can play in public health. In spite of attempts to create a theoretical framework in the early 2000s, a thorough understanding of sports clubs as a setting for health promotion (HP) is lacking. Despite calls for more effective, sustainable, and theoretically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Intervention, Athletics
Impact of Infection Outbreak on People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review
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Embregts, Petri J. C. M.; Nijs, Sara L. P.; van Oorsouw, Wietske M. W. J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: One would assume that infection outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic have a deleterious effect upon the physical, mental, and/or social functioning of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Methods: A systematic search of four databases produced 18 articles. General information pertaining to the topics under consideration,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Communicable Diseases, COVID-19, Pandemics
Children's Views of Older People
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Robinson, Sally; Howatson-Jones, Lioba – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Worldwide demographic change means that the responsibility for an aging population will fall to younger generations. This narrative literature review comprises an international examination of what has been published about children's views of older people between 1980 and 2011. Sixty-nine academic articles were inductively analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Older Adults, Literature Reviews, History
Should Natural Phenomena be Described Teleologically or Anthropomorphically?--A Science Educator's View
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Jungwirth, E. – Journal of Biological Education, 1977
Respondents' awareness of the problems involved with using anthropomorphic statements in secondary biology instruction was acute in the science education group, but progressively less so with the teachers, the scientists, and the prospective teachers. It was recommended that all persons connected with science teaching become more aware of the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Biology, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Assessment of the Psychosocial Environment of University Science Laboratory Classrooms: A Cross-National Study.
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Fraser, Barry J.; And Others – Higher Education, 1992
A survey of 1,720 students in 71 university science laboratory classes in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Israel, and Nigeria investigated student and teacher perceptions of dimensions of classroom environment (student cohesiveness, open-endedness, integration, rule clarity, material environment). Results and the utility of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Faculty, College Science, College Students
Education and Canadian Multiculturalism: Some Problems and Some Solutions. Eighth Yearbook 1981 = Education et Multiculturalisme Canadien: Quelques Problemes et Solutions. Huitieme Annuaire 1981.
Dorotich, Daniel, Ed. – 1981
This yearbook presents a series of articles on Canadian multicultural issues. In the first article, "Panem et Circenses? Ten Years of Multicultural Policy in Canada," Werner Stephan examines criticisms of Canadian multicultural policy and suggests the country has not found a satisfactory answer to what multiculturalism is or should be,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Compensatory Education, Cross Cultural Studies