Growing Up Active: A Study Into Physical Activity in Long Day Care Centers

Preschool Movement Education in Turkey: Perceptions of Preschool Administrators and Parents

“…Similar findings were found in Cashmore and Jones (2008) study, in which school staff were interviewed through focus groups. The participants were reluctant to implement movement activities in their preschools, especially during the outdoor time.…”

Early Childhood Teachers' and Staff Members' Perceptions of Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices for Preschoolers

“…The workers saw significant value in physical activity play but were reluctant to implement structured sessions, an idea that is at odds with the role of formal child care to provide program time for preschoolers to participate in a combination of unstructured play and structured physical activity each day. It appears that child care workers need more resources that outline ideas for ageappropriate games and physical activities, and that these workers need professional development to learn more about how to support preschoolers' development of fundamental movement skills (Cashmore & Jones, 2008;Gallahue & Ozmun, 2005;Goodway, Crowe, & Ward, 2008;NASPE, 2002;Payne & Issacs, 2005).…”

“…In a recent study conducted in Australia, all 17 teachers and 22 parents of preschoolers participating in focus group discussions defined physical activity as body movements, including those beyond large body movements that were sporadic and for short duration, either fast or slow, and that did not involve sitting in front of the television (Dwyer, Higgs, Hardy, & Baur, 2008). In a different study conducted in Australia (Cashmore & Jones, 2008), the researchers interviewed, via focus groups, 20 child care workers who expressed a strong preference for child-directed Downloaded by [TOBB Ekonomi Ve Teknoloji] at 16:18 22 December 2014 physical activity, with adults only supporting it rather than controlling and imposing rules. The workers saw significant value in physical activity play but were reluctant to implement structured sessions, an idea that is at odds with the role of formal child care to provide program time for preschoolers to participate in a combination of unstructured play and structured physical activity each day.…”

“I Need to Move and So Do the Children”

“…Compared to teachers who did not value physical activity, those who did value it were more likely to encourage children to go outside and more likely to engage with them in active play (Brady et al 2008;Cashmore & Sandra, 2008). Recently, Copeland et al (2011) investigated the perceptions of teachers' in child-care centers in regard to the benefits of and barriers to children's physical activity.…”