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Basically says that team sports are bad for the health of the wider population of children because they don't promote aerobics and personal exercise regimes.
So its not kids stuffing their faces with crisps and leading sedentary lifestyles. It's football that's to blame! :huh:
BBC NEWS | Education | Team sports blamed for health gap
An over-emphasis on competitive team sports in schools is being blamed for "marginalising" the wider efforts to promote physical exercise.
Research from Loughborough University suggests that healthy individual exercise is losing out because PE teachers want to focus on team games.
This means that pupils are not learning about personal exercises such as aerobics and pilates, say researchers.
Male teachers in particular want to promote team sports, say researchers.
The study, being presented to the British Education Research Association's annual conference in Edinburgh, has been based on interviews with 112 PE teachers in a range of local authorities in England.
Obesity
The research has found that it will be difficult to promote the idea of individual health-promoting exercise when lessons are likely to be dominated by teachers' personal interest in team sports.
"A teacher who has experienced lifelong success in sport is likely to want to focus upon competitive team games within lesson," says researcher Laura Ward.
"This then presents us with a persistent cycle whereby sport is privileged within PE and health-related exercise is marginalised."
School sport has been seen as an important part of efforts to tackle the problem of childhood obesity.
The government says a target to get 85% of youngsters in England doing two hours of sport a week has been met - and it wants that to be increased to five hours per week by 2012.
Last year the former education secretary Alan Johnson attacked those who argued against competitive team sports in schools.
"It was an absurd and perverse political correctness which caused competitive sports to be banned in some schools and I hope we never see a return to such nonsense," Mr Johnson said.
So its not kids stuffing their faces with crisps and leading sedentary lifestyles. It's football that's to blame! :huh:
BBC NEWS | Education | Team sports blamed for health gap
An over-emphasis on competitive team sports in schools is being blamed for "marginalising" the wider efforts to promote physical exercise.
Research from Loughborough University suggests that healthy individual exercise is losing out because PE teachers want to focus on team games.
This means that pupils are not learning about personal exercises such as aerobics and pilates, say researchers.
Male teachers in particular want to promote team sports, say researchers.
The study, being presented to the British Education Research Association's annual conference in Edinburgh, has been based on interviews with 112 PE teachers in a range of local authorities in England.
Obesity
The research has found that it will be difficult to promote the idea of individual health-promoting exercise when lessons are likely to be dominated by teachers' personal interest in team sports.
"A teacher who has experienced lifelong success in sport is likely to want to focus upon competitive team games within lesson," says researcher Laura Ward.
"This then presents us with a persistent cycle whereby sport is privileged within PE and health-related exercise is marginalised."
School sport has been seen as an important part of efforts to tackle the problem of childhood obesity.
The government says a target to get 85% of youngsters in England doing two hours of sport a week has been met - and it wants that to be increased to five hours per week by 2012.
Last year the former education secretary Alan Johnson attacked those who argued against competitive team sports in schools.
"It was an absurd and perverse political correctness which caused competitive sports to be banned in some schools and I hope we never see a return to such nonsense," Mr Johnson said.
funny enough when I spent hours in the school swimming baths doing miles of swimming I was told it was good for me:huh:
