Promoting Physical Activity Education Through General Education: Looking Back and Moving Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Cardinal

Concerns about college and university student health date back to at least the mid-19th century. These concerns were addressed through the development and implementation of required, service-based physical activity education programs. In the 1920s–1930s, 97% of American colleges and universities offered such programs. Today less than 40% do. However, student health issues persist. This essay asserts that kinesiology departments are best suited to address these needs by delivering physical activity education courses through their institution’s general education curriculum. General education courses are those that every student must take in order to develop the competencies necessary for living a full and complete life and contributing to society. Given the growing costs of higher education, any such requirement must be justifiable. Therefore, implementing and sustaining a physical activity education general education requirement is not for the faint of heart; it requires effort, resources, support, and time. This essay explores these issues.

2021 ◽  
pp. 026461962110293
Author(s):  
Ying-Ting Chiu ◽  
Tiffany Wild

The Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) is a set of concepts and skills that are taught to students with visual impairments to support their learning that often occurs incidentally with vision. Students with visual impairments must learn both the ECC and content from the general education curriculum, including science. Thus, it is crucial to incorporate these two sets of curricula so that students with visual impairments can learn both sets of curricula more efficiently. This article presents an analysis of science curricula and lesson plans that support the Next Generation Science Standards while promoting teaching skills to students with visual impairments in the ECC. The results show that the ECC can be incorporated into science easily which will allow the ECC and science to be taught in one lesson.


Author(s):  
Nagul Cooharojananone ◽  
Jidapa Dilokpabhapbhat ◽  
Thanaporn Rimnong-ang ◽  
Manutsaya Choosuwan ◽  
Pattamon Bunram ◽  
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