Browsing by Subject "fysisk aktivitet"

The aim of this study is to gain insight into how preschool teachers in the field think about the physical activity in preschool; how they plan physical activity, the opportunities and challenges they face in making the child involved and how they organize physical activity from a child's perspective. The study highlights what preschool teachers value in the planning stages and during the actual moment of physical activity. The research questions for this study are "What does the preschool teacher highlight in the planning of physical activity and during the moment of physical education?” and " What opportunities and challenges are there for the preschool teacher to make the child involved in the moment of physical activity? The theoretical part deals with how physical activity looks like at the preschools’, what the child's perspective and participation means, and how the preschool teachers and the preschools approach to physical activity affect the physical education. The research was carried out by using a qualitative research method and the data collection was done by interviewing three preschool teachers. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The results suggest that teachers attach importance to versatility, variety, effectiveness and joy of movement in the planning phase of the physical education. The physical education class structure has to be the same, a clear introduction, a main part and a conclusion. During the physical education, teachers’ value that all children are active, try out new things, get challenged and deal with different equipment. The original plan doesn’t need to hold and the preschool teacher must be flexible, be able to read into the group of children and be also manage to take the child's perspective. In order to make the child involved it is necessary to listen to the children's wishes. The concepts of the child’s perspective and the child’s participation are familiar to the preschool teachers, but there are variations in how they are perceived. The challenge is how to take the child's perspective and how to make the child involved and thus needs to be emphasized in the policy documents, staff meetings and training courses.

The national programme “Skolan i rörelse” aims at increasing the students’ physical activity and decreasing the sitting during the school day. The programme started in 2010 as a pilot project. The national Move! measurements in 2020 show that children’s and adolescent’s physical endurance has deteriorated. The aim of this dissertation was to chart how the target school has experienced the “Skolan i rörelse” programme. The aim was also to chart how the school is going to utilize the experiences and results of the programme. The research questions were: 1. Why the school wanted to participate in the “Skolan i rörelse” programme? 2. Which circumstances at school facilitated the “Skolan i rörelse” programme? 3. Which circumstances at school obstructed the “Skolan i rörelse” programme? The dissertation was made with a qualitative study and the collection of the material was made with semi-structured interviews. Three teachers participated in the interviews. A descriptive thematic analyses was used for analysing the responses. Factors that facilitate the implementation of the “Skolan i rörelse” programme are the dynamic operational culture, the facilities inside and outside together with the local environment of the target school. The experiences of the programme are positive and the school is going to con-tinue the activity. One thing that has made the implementation of the “Skolan i rörelse” pro-gramme more difficult, is the limited information about the programme in the target school. The entire staff is not familiar with the programme and the different teachers are unfamiliar about their role in the programme. Also the fact that the school has not fully succeeded in mo-tivating the ninth graders to participate in the activities has aggravated the implementation of the programme. A third factor that has complicated realizing the programme is the COVID-19 pandemic. The information about the “Skolan i rörelse” programme has to reach everybody at school in a systematic manner, this includes the whole staff including the school health care, students and moreover homes. When the school is recruiting new personnel or employing sub teachers, they must also get informed of this programme. Thus the target school will ensure that the “Skolan i rörelse” programme will be familiar for everybody.

Mål. Syftet med studien är att beskriva och analysera aktuella studier om sambandet mellan fysisk aktivitet och lärande samt skolframgång inom åldersgruppen 7–16. Min hypotes är att fysisk aktivitet har en positiv inverkan på både lärande och skolframgång. Eftersom temat är aktuellt, publiceras nya studier frekvent, och det är viktigt att analysera dem för att ha den mest precisa informationen om ämnet. I Finland har kopplingen mellan fysisk aktivitet lärande och skolframgång undersökts av Syväoja (2013; 2014); Kantomaa (2013) och Huotilainen (2017) som alla har påvisat ett positivt samband mellan faktorerna. Metoder. Metoden för studien var en beskrivande litteraturöversikt. Jag har analyserat tolv studier som undersökte om fysisk aktivitet har en inverkan på lärande och skolframgång. Resultat och slutsatser. Studien visade ett positivt samband mellan fysisk aktivitet och lärande samt fysisk aktivitet och skolframgång. Av de analyserade tolv studierna visade elva att fysisk aktivitet har en positiv inverkan på antingen skolframgång eller lärande. Särskilt aerobisk motion hade ett positivt samband med faktorerna. Denna kunskap är värdefull för lärare och skolor som kan använda informationen för att främja elevernas möjligheter till effektivt lärande och god skolframgång samt även goda motionsvanor.

The purpose of this study is to examine the view that kindergarten teachers have on the planned exercise activities for children in day-care. The research will thus not include spon-taneous movement and activities that might occur, for instance outside during play, but in-stead the scheduled activities. I aim to find out what kindergarten teachers think of the planned activities, and how well-planned the activities are. I am also curious to find out what impact the teachers backgrounds and experiences might have on the activities and what dif-ference they make. The method used in this study was qualitative interviews. Three kindergarten teachers from a smaller municipality were interviewed, and these interviews were recorded with a mobile phone. Later the interviews were transcribed and analysed. The results I got of this study were that all three of the kindergarten teachers were positively inclined to plan exercise activities with children, as they see them as an important aspect of the children’s development. In all three places the activities were planned, taking the envi-ronment into consideration. Thus the kindergarten with a useful environment around them, such as forests, could utilise these environments more than the kindergarten located in an environment that was not as useful.

The aim of the study is to explore the influence that physical education as well as physical activity has on the academic achievement of schoolchildren. Earlier studies show a link between physical activity, physical condition and academic achievement. The study is a review of the literature and past studies on the subject. The material gathered is composed of 8 studies on the subject. The results show that children with higher participation rate in physical education and/or with higher physical activity overall perform better in school and thus achieve greater academic performance. Results also point towards the conclusion that more time spent in physical education could improve the children's health.