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- Title
La Educación Física: ¿Una oportunidad para la promoción de la actividad física?
- Authors
Abarca-Sos, Alberto; Pardo, Berta Murillo; Julián Clemente, José Antonio; Zaragoza Casterad, Javier; Generelo Lanaspa, Eduardo
- Abstract
Although physical inactivity is recognized as an important factor contributing to rising levels of obesity and other health problems, the majority of children and adolescents in Western societies do not get enough physical activity to generate health benefits. The school setting represents an opportunity to promote physical activity, because children spend much of their time in it. For many students, the Physical Education lessons represent the only time during the week in which they perform physical activity. It has traditionally been considered that physical education as a privileged area for the promotion of physical activity, in a direct way, contributing to the daily accumulation of physical activity recommended, and indirectly, promoting physical activity outside school, through the development of attitudes and skills which can help incorporate physical activity behavior in the lifestyle of the individual. This article is a reflection on the relationship between physical education and the promotion of physical activity, analyzing, first, the role to be played by our field that may need to be more concerned with addressing those motivational aspects that promote adherence to physical activity in the present and the future, and secondly, the role of the physical education teacher, as facilitator and promoter of an active, healthy lifestyle, consistent with the pedagogical model of Physical Education and health.
- Publication
Retos: Nuevas Perspectivas de Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 2015, Vol 28, p155
- ISSN
1579-1726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47197/retos.v0i28.34946