The adoption of a healthy lifestyle (such as high physical activity, low sedentary behavior, optimal sleep duration, good eating patterns, etc.) has been associated with physical, social, mental, and cognitive benefits in children and adolescents. However, most children and adolescents do not meet the recommendations for these habits. School, and in particular physical education, is considered an ideal environment to promote healthy lifestyles. Physical education classes contribute to the promotion of these behaviors by increasing the level of physical activity and reducing sedentary time (i.e., directly), and can also provide health-related skills and knowledge that empower young people to be healthy outside school (i.e., indirectly).
Taking into account the relevance of promoting healthy habits in Physical Education classes, we are launching a Research Topic aimed at gathering original research papers and review articles focused on physical activity and physical education in children and adolescents.
Although studies related to the promotion of healthy habits within physical education are welcome, consideration will also be given to the following topics that need further research within physical education:
1) school-based interventions based on motivational theories to promote physical activity inside or outside physical education classes
2) consequences associated with the use of different pedagogical models and formative assessment in physical education
3) new methodologies used in the context of physical education
The adoption of a healthy lifestyle (such as high physical activity, low sedentary behavior, optimal sleep duration, good eating patterns, etc.) has been associated with physical, social, mental, and cognitive benefits in children and adolescents. However, most children and adolescents do not meet the recommendations for these habits. School, and in particular physical education, is considered an ideal environment to promote healthy lifestyles. Physical education classes contribute to the promotion of these behaviors by increasing the level of physical activity and reducing sedentary time (i.e., directly), and can also provide health-related skills and knowledge that empower young people to be healthy outside school (i.e., indirectly).
Taking into account the relevance of promoting healthy habits in Physical Education classes, we are launching a Research Topic aimed at gathering original research papers and review articles focused on physical activity and physical education in children and adolescents.
Although studies related to the promotion of healthy habits within physical education are welcome, consideration will also be given to the following topics that need further research within physical education:
1) school-based interventions based on motivational theories to promote physical activity inside or outside physical education classes
2) consequences associated with the use of different pedagogical models and formative assessment in physical education
3) new methodologies used in the context of physical education
