Browsing by Subject "fyysinen passiivisuus"
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(2016)During the last 20 years obesity and musculoskeletal symptoms have increased in children and teenagers, and their physical condition has decreased. The promotion of exercise has a central role in a child’s healthy growth and development. Moving is one of a child’s charac-teristic ways of action, so enthusiasm towards it should come naturally. The purpose of this study is to find out how in a daycare center environment one can support/motivate children’s physical passive children to exercise. This thesis is a qualitative research study. The data was collected at a nature-orientated daycare center in Helsinki by doing a theme based group interview. The interview was structured around five themes. Four daycare personnel participated in the interview; each of whom had a different educational background. The result of the study is that the interviewees believe that a physically passive child needs more verbal support, encouragement and patience from an adult. Children’s movement in the gym should not be limited, and adults should create a variety of sporty challenges for children in the yard. The yard should be large and motivate children to move around. The daycare should have good supply of sport and exercise equipment indoors and outdoors. At the beginning of outdoor activities it would be good to have teacher-guided play and do weekly trips to nearby parks and forests. Exercise sessions should be planned and indi-vidualised according to the children’s skill levels. Parents should be reminded of the impor-tance of physical activity and exercising together in educational conversations, as well as in parents’ evenings.
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(2016)Objectives. A general concern about children’s physical inactivity, increased screen time and sedentary behaviour is strongly presented in today’s social debate. Many studies have reported that Finnish children aren’t physically active enough which has led child obesity to become a major public health issue. The aim of this study is to find out, based on previous studies, how much Finnish students engage in physical activity and compare the results to national and international recommendations for physical activity. In addition, the effects of physical activity on children’s health, mental health and academic achievement are discussed in this study. Methodology. This study is a descriptive review of the literature, which means that the research material consists of previous studies and literature. When analysing the amounts of physical activity, Finnish studies were utilised whereas with effects of physical activity the literature consisted of international peer-reviewed studies. Material was searched from Helda, Melinda, Proquest and Google Scholar article databases and books were searched from Helka-database of University of Helsinki. The amount of articles available was great so the studies that were included in my study were the ones with the most current and substantive results that answered the research questions of my study. Results and conclusions. The results of the study presented that most Finnish students do not engage in enough physical activity to maintain good health. Based on the recent studies the amounts of physical activity are however rising, which gives an indication that the efforts made to promote physical activity are working. The results also showed that successful interventions and reforming the school culture enables promoting physical activity among students. Related to the second research question, the benefits of physical activity on children’s health are undeniable. The effect of physical activity on children’s academic achievement and cognition is also positive but the results are still quite weak and more reliable studies are needed to draw more general conclusions.
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(2018)The objective of this study was to discover the thoughts of Finnish classroom teachers on promoting the physical activity of their students. The study examines teachers' attitudes towards promoting physical activity, the challenges they face in promoting physical activity and how they see their own readiness in promoting physical activity. In addition to attitudes and thoughts, the study wanted to analyse the concrete actions classroom teachers have taken to promote the physical activity of their students. Finally, the study also aims at exploring the factors that affect teachers' attitudes, readiness and the actions they take. This study is a mixed methods study with convergent parallel design strategy meaning it utilises both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The quantitative data was gathered with an electronic form managed by the University of Helsinki. The data consisted of 186 responses from Finnish classroom teachers and it was gathered between May and June 2017. The qualitative data, which was collected simultaneously with the quantitative data, consisted of eight theme interviews. The quantitative data was analysed with SPSS-program and the qualitative data was analysed with content analysis, quantification and by forming themes and types of the data. The study showed that teachers' attitudes towards promoting physical activity at school are very positive. However, the qualitative part of the study found four different dimensions inside the positive attitude which were general level, school level, teacher level and personal level. The challenges teachers face when promoting physical activity differed a lot between schools and some schools have less possibilities and much fewer resources than others. The readiness of the teacher was affected strongly by the teacher's own relationship towards exercise. If the teacher had studied physical education as a minor was also of great influence. The study also showed that there are room for improvement when it comes to teachers' actions towards promoting physical activity at school. Teachers concrete actions were strongly affected by their relationship towards exercise, attitude and readiness to promote physical activity.
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