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Walking School, a Sustainable Movement Education Initiative in Sweden – Exploring Sustainable Movement
Get PDFPurpose: Despite global efforts to increase physical activity among children and adolescents, initiatives for physical activity in schools rarely have sustained impact. Interventions have been criticised for seeking to increase levels of physical activity by focusing on individual behaviour rather than considering the context and social structures in which individuals live their lives. This study examines whether and how the Walking School initiative promotes sustainable movement by integrating physical activity as a routine of the school day rather than adding physical activity.
Methods: A mixed-methods participatory design was used, involving 14 pupils (six intervention and eight control classes) in lower-secondary school (12–16 years old) in Sweden. The intervention consisted of curriculum-based walking lessons held weekly for one semester, developed collaboratively by researchers, teachers, and students. Data sources included student surveys (pre-, mid-, and post-intervention), GPS tracking of lessons, researcher observations, and interviews with students and teachers. Quantitative data were analysed using Friedman, Wilcoxon, and Mann–Whitney U tests. Qualitative data underwent content analysis.
Results: GPS data confirmed consistent walking activity during, on average, one lesson per week of 1.7 kilometres of walking at 3.4 kilometres per hour. A significant difference was found in students’ self-reported physical activity during school breaks where students in the intervention group perceived themselves as more physically active (p = .003). Surprisingly, no significant self-reported differences were found during lesson time. Qualitative data suggest that physical activity was positively perceived but seldom mentioned. The initiative was not experienced as physically demanding or intimidating. Students appreciated the opportunity to move, but it did not seem to be a primary focus for the students.
Conclusion: The Walking School initiative illustrates how physical activity can be integrated into teaching practices in a way not perceived as disruptive or strenuous by students, which therefore has the potential to become a routine. These findings provide valuable insights into how health-enhancing physical activity can be fostered within the educational system.
Support/Funding Source: This study was supported by the Swedish Research Council’s PhD programme “Sustainable Movement Education” through a PhD grant to the first author, Grant Number 2021-03830
Allergy - a reminder of our origins : a quantitative survey on the prevalence of allergies among students at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
No full textAim - To investigate the prevalence of allergies among students at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH) in Stockholm and relate it to factors that previous research in this area found to influence the risk of developing allergic diseases. - Can Hygiene Hypothesis or more specifically the relationships of family structure, socioeconomic status and the degree of overcrowding explain the existence of allergies among students at GIH? - Can the prevalence of allergies among students at GIH be explained by any of the known relationship for the prevalence of allergic diseases this study has taken into account? Method - Quantitative survey of students at GIH in the fall of 2013. Results - 214 students from The Swedish School of Sport and Health Science participated in the study, with representation from the first - and last - year students of all educational programs. More than twice the proportion of those diagnosed respondents said that their mother smoked during pregnancy or while they were breast-fed compared with the same group of respondents with no allergic diagnosis. The correlation is not statistically significant (p -value: 0.054). The majority of respondents with an allergic diagnosis indicated that their home mopped once a week or more for most of their childhood, while the majority of respondents with no allergic diagnosis stated that their home mopped less often. The correlation is not statistically significant (p -value: 0.055). Almost twice the proportion of respondents with an allergic diagnosis indicated that they spent most of their childhood in a major city. Similarly, nearly double the proportion of respondents with no allergic diagnosis indicated that they spent most of their childhood in the country (p -value: 0.06). The majority of respondents with an allergic diagnosis had a younger mother at birth in comparison with respondents without any allergic diagnosis. The mean maternal age at birth was 28.3 years for respondents with an allergic diagnosis and 29.9 years for respondents with no diagnosis. Difference in mean age between the two groups is statistically significant (p-value: 0.038). Conclusions - None of the related factors the study took into account, for which earlier studies in the area shown to affect the incidence of allergic diseases could provide a convincing explanation for the prevalence of allergies among students at The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences. The resulting trend for the majority of the studied factors are in line with previous research. An elderly mother was found to be significantly associated with a decreased risk of having an allergic diagnosis. The result finds no support in previous research and should be investigated more thoroughly.Syfte - Att undersöka förekomsten av allergier bland studenterna på Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan i Stockholm och relatera det till faktorer som tidigare forskning på området visat påverka risken att utveckla allergiska sjukdomar. Frågeställningar - Kan hygienhypotesen eller närmare bestämt sambanden för familjestrukturen, den socioekonomiska statusen och graden av trångboddhet förklara förekomsten av allergier bland studenterna på Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan? - Kan förekomsten av allergier bland studenterna på Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan förklaras utifrån något av de tidigare kända sambanden för förekomsten av allergiska sjukdomar denna studie tagit i beaktande? Metod - Kvantitativ enkätundersökning av studenterna på Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan under hösten 2013. Resultat – 214 studenter från Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan deltog i studien med representation från första- och sista års- elever från samtliga utbildningsprogram. Mer än dubbelt så stor andel av de diagnosticerade respondenterna svarade att deras mor rökte under graviditeten eller under tiden de ammades i jämförelse med motsvarande grupp respondenter utan någon allergisk diagnos. Sam-bandet är inte statistiskt säkerställt (p-värde: 0,054). Majoriteten av respondenterna med en allergisk diagnos angav att deras hem våttorkades en gång i veckan eller oftare under större delen av deras barndom medan majoriteten av respondenterna utan någon allergisk diagnos uppgav att deras hem våttorkades mer sällan. Sambandet är inte statistiskt säkerställt (p-värde: 0,055). Nästan dubbelt så stor andel av respondenterna med en allergisk diagnos har angett att de spenderat större delen av sin barndom i en större stad. På motsvarande sätt har närmare den dubbla andelen av respondenterna utan någon allergisk diagnos uppgett att de spenderat merparten av sin barndom på landet (p-värde: 0,06). Majoriteten av respondenterna med en allergisk diagnos hade en yngre mor då de föddes i jämförelsen med respondenterna utan någon allergisk diagnos. Medelvärdet för mödrarnas ålder vid födseln var 28,3 år för respondenterna med en allergisk diagnos respektive 29,9 år för responden-terna utan någon diagnos. Skillnad i medelålder mellan de båda grupperna är signifikant (p-värde: 0,038). Slutsats – Inget av de samband studien tagit i beaktande för vilka tidigare studier på området visat sig påverka förekomsten av allergiska sjukdomar kunde ge en övertygande förklaring till förekomsten av allergier bland studenterna på Gymnastik & idrottshögskolan. Den resultatmässiga trenden för merparten av de studerade sambanden är dock i linje med tidigare forskning. En äldre mor visade sig vara signifikant associerad med en minskad risk att ha en allergisk diagnos. Resultatet finner inget stöd i tidigare forskning och bör utredas mer grundligt
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Health promotion meets sustainable movement-based education in school - a "walking school" initiative in Sweden
No full textThe World Health Organization states that physical activity has the potential to influence physical, mental, and social dimensions of health in a powerful way. However, in modern society, physical activity is increasingly becoming an active choice, rather than a part of everyday life. Schools have been identified as key settings for health promotion, but physical activity initiatives in schools have rarely had a sustained impact. Interventions have been criticized for seeking to increase levels of physical activity by focusing on individual behaviors rather than considering the contexts and social structures in which individuals live their lives. With a theoretical foundation in settings-based health promotion, this article proposes an alternative initiative for sustainable movement-based education called Walking School. Walking School defines sustainable movement as the movement that is an integral part of the school day and school culture. Walking School, or outdoor teaching while walking, has the potential to (i) be inclusive of both teachers and students, (ii) extend the classroom and make physical activity a collective responsibility of all teachers, not just physical education teachers, (iii) reduce sedentary time and increase physical activity without losing instructional time, (iv) stimulate physical activity and create conditions conducive to the development of new habits by using the outdoor environment as a teaching space, and (5) become part of the school's core business of education, and ultimately a part of the school culture.</p
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