It was in 2003 that the EU Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture commissioned a -Study on young people s lifestyles and sedentariness and the role of sport in the context of education and as a means of restoring the balance-. The purpose of this study was to compile an intercultural comparative analysis of adolescents lifestyles within the EU. This analysis was based on international and national studies from the areas of epidemiology, cardiology, paediatrics, physiology, nutrition, psychology, sociology and sport sciences dealing with physical activity, fitness and motor...
It was in 2003 that the EU Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture commissioned a -Study on young people s lifestyles and sedentarine...
Roland Naul, Deanna Binder (Royal Roads University, Canada), Antonin Rychtecky, Ian Culpan (University of Canterbury, Ne
A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world. The book includes 28 chapters with 21 national case studies of countries on every major continent, including Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK, the US and Zambia. Each chapter examines the...
A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people dev...
