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Escalié, Guillaume; Recoules, Nicolas; Chaliès, Sébastien; Legrain, Pascal – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
In the French education system, the current curriculum for students from the primary to the end of secondary school is structured around the notion of key competence. A competence can be defined as an integrated and stable network of knowledge and know-how, with normative behaviors, procedures and types of reasoning. However, without a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Fitness, Skill Development
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E. García Bengoechea; C. B. Woods; E. Murtagh; C. Grady; N. Fabre; L. Lhuisset; G. Zunquin; A. Aibar; J. Zaragoza Casterad; L. Haerens; M. Verloigne; K. De Cocker; S. Hellebaut; J. Ribeiro; L. Bohn; J. Mota; J. E. Bois – Quest, 2024
Schools are ideal settings to promote adolescent physical activity (PA), yet school-based interventions have shown limited long-term impact. This position paper presents key issues surrounding school-based PA interventions. Collaborative conceptual thinking drawing on multi-author expertise and available evidence advanced our understanding and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary Schools, Physical Activity Level
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Forest, Emmanuelle; Lenzen, Benoît; Öhman, Marie – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The aim of this paper is to identify and discuss similarities and differences between the curricula for physical education (PE) in secondary schools in Sweden, France and the canton of Geneva (Switzerland) in the light of PE teaching traditions (PETTs). Teaching traditions concern ideas about the goals of school disciplines and therefore about the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Athletics, Physical Fitness
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Tarnus, Evelyne; Catan, Aurelie; Verkindt, Chantal; Bourdon, Emmanuel – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
The maximal rate of O[subscript 2] consumption (VO[subscript 2max]) constitutes one of the oldest fitness indexes established for the measure of cardiorespiratory fitness and aerobic performance. Procedures have been developed in which VO[subscript 2max]is estimated from physiological responses during submaximal exercise. Generally, VO[subscript…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physical Education, Obesity, Physical Activities
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Committee for the Development of Sport. – 1983
This document reports on the conclusions and recommendations of the European seminars organized by the Committee for the Development of Sport, a subcommittee of the Council of Europe. The seminars addressed: (1) "Energy-saving Measures in Sports Facilities"; (2) "Access to Nature in Mountain Regions"; (3) "Sport for…
Descriptors: Athletic Equipment, Athletics, Childhood Needs, Competition