Contemporary School Playground Strategies for Healthy Students

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hyndman, Brendon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Early Childhood Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Learning & Instruction.

This book is a research guide for implementing contemporary playground strategies to promote active, healthy students. A number of school playground strategies have succeeded in reducing the decline in students’ activity levels by introducing equipment and policies that encourage further engagement....

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 The importance of school playground for active, healthy students
• Chapter 2 School playgrounds as a place of learning
• Chapter 3 The state of playgrounds in Australian schools
• Chapter 4 Adult decisions on students' play within primary school playgrounds
• Chapter 5 Individual influences on students within school playgrounds
• Chapter 6 Social environmental influences on students within school playgrounds
• Chapter 7 Physical environmental influences on students within school playgrounds
• Chapter 8 Policy influences on students within school playgrounds
• Chapter 9 Measurement of students' playground activity levels
• Chapter 10 What students want within school playground to to be active and healthy
• Chapter 11 What students want and need within school playgrounds for play
• Chapter 12 Students' enjoyment of school playground activities
• Chapter 13 School playground strategies to promote structured activities
• Chapter 14 School playground strategies to promote unstructured activities
• Chapter 15 Evaluating the translatability of school playground strategies
• Chapter 16 Recommendations for future school playground strategy research.