1st Edition
Teaching Overweight Students in Physical Education Comprehensive Strategies for Inclusion
By Weidong Li
Copyright 2017
136 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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Overweight students often suffer negative consequences with regard to low physical ability, skills, and fitness; obesity-related health implications; teasing and exclusion from physical education by their peers; and psychosocial and emotional suffering as a result of weight stigma. Widespread obesity and its negative consequences have presented an unprecedented challenge for teachers, who must... Read more
1. Obesity and Obesity-Related Consequences 2. Weight Stigma and Obesity Bias 3. Teaching Students How to Cope with Obesity Bias 4. A Conceptual Framework for Inclusion: Social Ecological Constraint Model 5. Strategies for Inclusion in Physical Education: Applying the Social Ecological Constraint Model
Biography
Weidong Li is a Chu Tian Scholar at Yangtze University in China and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University. His areas of expertise are curriculum and student motivation, theory-based physical activity interventions, and weight-related teasing and coping.
