Movement and Health: Holistic Development to Support Long-Term Active Lifestyle
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 85
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sport pedagogy; physical fitness; assessment; performance analisys
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scientific literature frequently emphasizes the urgent need to address the gradual decline in motor competence and health-related fitness levels during childhood and adolescence, often associated with low physical activity levels. To challenge this situation, national/international guidelines (e.g., WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity) underline the need to improve the amount of physical activity during childhood and adolescence. However, only increasing the quantity of physical activity may not be the best solution. Therefore, effective educational strategies to foster holistic learning and development in multiple domains to support long-term active lifestyles are also essential. It is well known, however, that for any intervention to be effective, it must be supported by appropriate evaluation processes.
This Special Issue aims to gather studies that could help to supplement the existing literature in the fields of motor development and physical fitness, and their relation with the psychological, social–emotional, and cognitive behaviour of individuals.
Specifically, studies that examine the impact of interventions to support holistic development processes in children and adolescents require assessment. However, holistic assessment practises are limited. Further, assessment in physical education in many countries around the world is lacking due to multiple factors, including assessment time feasibility, cost, and necessary assessment training. Thus, research on methods of assessing holistic development, the barriers and facilitators of assessments, and systematic literature reviews are accepted. The keywords associated with this call are useful for contextualizing the focus of this Special Issue.
Dr. Francesco Sgrò
Prof. Dr. David Stodden
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- physical fitness
- motor competence
- physical education
- physical literacy
- holistic development
- assessment
- cognitive
- psychological
- social–emotional
