A systematic review of school-based physical activity interventions on children’s wellbeing     

Ruth Rafferty  Gavin Breslin  Deirdre Brennan  David Hassan 《International review of sport and exercise psychology》2016,9(1):215-230

Purpose: The aim of this study was to review the effect of school-based physical activity interventions on children’s wellbeing.

Method: A systematic search of school-based physical activity studies was conducted using EBSCOhost PsycInfo, EBSCOhost Medline and Web of Science. Initially 995 studies were retrieved and, following the removal of duplicates, the titles and abstracts of 984 studies were screened. This screening identified 53 relevant studies from which 42 were excluded, resulting in 11 articles being reviewed.

Results: Three studies reported a positive increase in wellbeing; however, only one of those studies also significantly increased physical activity. It was apparent that the measurement of wellbeing and physical activity was inconsistent across studies, making conclusions difficult to draw. The wellbeing measures used neglected to account for the children’s perspectives of wellbeing.

Conclusions: The effect of a physical activity intervention on increasing wellbeing appears to be more complex than originally believed. The complexity may in part be due to methodological issues and the choice of wellbeing and physical activity measurement. We recommend that future physical activity interventions include a measure of wellbeing developed from the child’s perspective, and that future reviews narrow the search to only interventions that have had success at increasing physical activity before exploring effects on wellbeing.  相似文献   

What Lies Beneath Seemingly Positive Campus Climate Results: Institutional Sexism,Racism, and Male Hostility Toward Equity Initiatives and Liberal Bias     

Deirdre M. Kelly  Mary Brooks 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(2):202-216

This study investigates what preservice elementary school teachers assume about children's capacities to learn about equity issues and how teachers might translate teaching for social justice into actual classroom practices. Participants said they did not see the age of their students as a barrier to teaching for social justice, although their ways of conceptualizing this varied considerably, and those teaching grade 4–6 students were generally more risk-taking in the curricular and pedagogical choices they made. We found that the concepts of childhood innocence and developmental appropriateness mediated the topics and approach to topics that beginning teachers considered. Roughly half the participants believed that younger children are relatively uninterested in the events of the day, are incapable of forming nuanced opinions, and are unable to analyze political issues; while the other half disagreed. Participants concerned about engendering negative emotional responses from elementary students made more limited and generic responses to name-calling or teasing rather than naming specific forms of oppression or prompting students to reflect critically on hurtful language and behavior.  相似文献   

Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time     

Davies PT  Sturge-Apple ML  Winter MA  Cummings EM  Farrell D 《Child development》2006,77(1):218-233

This multi-method study sought to identify parameters of developmental change and stability of child reaction patterns to interparental conflict in the context of family relations in a sample of 223 6-year-old children and their parents followed over the course of one year. Consistent with the sensitization hypothesis, interparental withdrawal and hostility each consistently and uniquely predicted child distress reactions to conflict even after analytically controlling for parental warmth. Associations were found across multiple domains of child responding (i.e., overt negative affect, subjective negative affect, internal representations) and both concurrent and prospective, autoregressive analyses. Results of the autoregressive path analyses indicated moderate stability in each of the domains of conflict reactivity over the 1-year longitudinal period.  相似文献   

BOOK REVIEWS     

Brendan Carmody  Christopher Meehan  Gunther Dietz  John Keast  Deirdre Burke  Denise Cush 《British Journal of Religious Education》2008,30(3):259-272

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An exploration of young children’s ethnic identities as communities of practice     

Ian Barron 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2007,28(6):739-752

This study is concerned with experiences of ethnic identity amongst a group of three‐year‐old and four‐year‐old children, four‐fifths of whom are of Pakistani heritage and the remainder of white indigenous heritage. Focused on a nursery school in the United Kingdom, the study explores the relationship between the individual and the social and cultural, initially in the home and then as the children start nursery school. An ethnographic approach is used to record the children’s daily experiences and relationships as contexts where they reveal, shape and reshape who they are. Children’s ethnic identities are explored in relation to boundaries where different communities of practice collide, alongside other aspects such as gender and sexuality and under the influence of factors such as power and religion. What appears to emerge is a sense of ethnic identity as social practice and performance rather than as the result of maturation or of internal cognitive development.  相似文献   

The Opening of Higher Education to Women in Nineteenth Century England: ‘Unexpected Revolution’ or Inevitable Change?     

Deirdre Raftery 《Higher Education Quarterly》2002,56(4):331-346

The nineteenth century movement to open higher education to women in England has been the subject of much scholarship in the last two decades. Studies of individual colleges have added to the corpus of research on how women were provided with formal higher education at this time. However, scholars offer differing theories as to why radical changes in the higher education of women took place when they did. This paper offers a synthesis of these various theories, and challenges the general perception that the opening of higher education to women was an 'unexpected revolution' (Bryant, 1987).  相似文献   

'Do You Want to be in My Gang?': A Study of the Existence and Effects of Bullying in a Primary School Class     

Deirdre A. Torrance 《British Journal of Special Education》1997,24(4):158-162

The winner of the 1997 Stanley Segal Award, Deirdre A. Torrance, a learning support teacher in a special school for secondary pupils with identified social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, considers the existence and effects of bullying in an Edinburgh mainstream primary school.  相似文献   

Professional learning and development needs of women teachers in the Republic of Pakistan: a social realist perspective     

Marie Clarke  Margaret Liddy  Deirdre Raftery  Ruth Ferris  Seaneen Sloan 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2020,50(5):579-595

ABSTRACT

This article, emerging from a wider study on the professional development needs of women teachers working in Catholic convent schools in the Republic of Pakistan, explores the perspectives and experiences of school leaders and Principals who developed professional development programmes. This area, which has been under-researched in the professional development literature, addresses the complexities and contradictions that the glocalisation of professional development can create for women teachers in developing world contexts. A social realist approach, using Archer’s morphogenetic framework, was employed to facilitate an exploration of the varied responses that professional development needs produce. The responses of former Principals and school leaders and their efforts to provide professional development for women teachers was captured, and revealed different agential responses. These responses included an acceptance of the realities of the education system in Pakistan and the role of women in that context, a desire to follow the ethos of the Catholic religious Order which was at variance with accepted educational praxis, and the changing expectations of society within Pakistan with reference to education of children.  相似文献   

Developing a quality curriculum in a technological era     

Twining  Peter  Butler  Deirdre  Fisser  Petra  Leahy  Margaret  Shelton  Chris  Forget-Dubois  Nadine  Lacasse  Michel 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2021,69(4):2285-2308

Educational technology research and development - There is considerable rhetoric internationally around the need for national curricula to reflect the changes that are taking place in the world...  相似文献   

The effects of computer‐based marking on completion rates and student achievement for students taking a secondary‐level distance education course     

Terry A. Boucher  M. Helen Barron 《Distance Education》1986,7(2):275-280

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