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To learn more about this program, I interviewed Gijs van der Scheer, director of the Dutch Bridge Federation, who is an enthusiastic promoter of playing bridge as a way to improve social cohesion and activity in neighborhoods. “This gave us the possibility to formulate a project using playing bridge as a way to reach inactive people,” says van der Scheer. No special messages about health or physical activity are given, although, says van der Scheer, “Sometimes, the local alderman is ...
Research on the social class of football hooligans in Scotland (Harper 1990), Belgium (Van Limbergen, Colaers, and Walgrave 1987), the Netherlands (Van der Brug 1986), and Italy (Roversi 1994) suggests that hooligans in other countries tend to come from social backgrounds similar to those of their English counterparts. Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be ...
To develop effective older adult physical activity interventions, it is important to understand factors that predict participation and adherence. Because the majority of older adults clearly can engage in physical activity safely, a growing body of research has been conducted to identify effective programs for increasing physical activity in this population (Brawley, Rejeski, & King, 2003; Taylor et al. For typical home-based interventions, the physical activity occurs at the older adult’s ...
Developmentally appropriate tasks motivate students because the tasks are challenging and not too easy or too difficult. In this situation, to motivate students to stay on task and keep learning, you should have a conversation with the individual student or small group and change the task as needed for them while the other students continue to practice the original task. Present Tasks That Have Meaning and Contribute Toward Learning Objectives Students should find learning tasks meaningful, ...
