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School Health Program: Impacting Physical Activity Behaviors Among Disadvantaged Students, Chia-Liang Dai
School Health Program: Impacting Physical Activity Behaviors Among Disadvantaged Students, Chia-Liang Dai
Teaching and Learning Faculty Research
BACKGROUND: Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more apt to experience lower availability of nutritious foods, lack opportunities to exercise, and lack access to recreational facilities, and thus, are more likely to be obese and at greater risk for developing chronic diseases. We review school health education programs' impact on physical activity behaviors among disadvantaged students. METHODS: The inclusion criteria of the study were articles: published in English with full text between 2011 and 2017; focused on school health education programs for disadvantaged school‐aged students; assessed programs including a physical activity component; examined school‐aged children and adolescents' physical activity behaviors; and …
What Are Funds Of Knowledge? A Collaborative Approach To Education, Janna M. Bernstein
What Are Funds Of Knowledge? A Collaborative Approach To Education, Janna M. Bernstein
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
It is important as educators to have a holistic understanding of students’ identities as these experiences influence classroom dynamics. As noted by Dugan (2017), “…identity, knowledge, and power are influenced profoundly by ideology and hegemony and in turn play a role in shaping people’s stocks of knowledge” (p. 40). “Stocks of knowledge” are characterized by five principles: they are familiar, serve to help navigate the world, “shaped by lived experience, altered only through novel situations, and socially constructed based on identity” (Dugan, 2017, p. 34). These “stocks of knowledge” are also known as “funds of knowledge” by multicultural educators.