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The dangers of high-impact sport aren’t contentious. Medical professionals agree that sport-induced brain trauma leads to degenerative brain disease – so why are we still allowing children to play?
Children with DCD often avoid the tasks they struggle with, meaning their issues may become invisible.
We can build on the tournament to raise the profile of women’s sport.
Lower participation and poorer performance in cross-country running by students at low-SES schools is troubling, because physical activity and fitness are closely tied to health and well-being.
The benefits of sport for young people include not only health and enjoyment, but also an appreciation of many of the civic values and ethics that make our democracy work.
School sport should prioritise development of the person, not the athlete. A new TV deal has some worried there hasn’t been enough debate as to how this will impact the culture of school sport.
For athletes, COVID-19 means more than cancelled competitions. Having their athletic goals put on hold and their training routines disrupted can take a toll on athletes’ mental health.
Amid plans to create special sports divisions for high-poverty schools, coaches at such schools explain how they produce championship-winning teams despite having fewer resources.
We need to keep active and exercise to stay healthy. So why not teach school kids some of the activities they’d go on to enjoy later in life?
Sport is only one way of being active and it’s usually done at particular times and on particular days. Teens should get physical activity throughout the day, every day.
Specialist teachers and hours of compulsory physical education a week are keeping Nordic school children moving. When it comes to physical activity, Australia could do better.
The White House proposed these cuts for three years in a row. That clashes with longstanding bipartisan leadership regarding rights for all people with disabilities.
Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
Try thinking of exercise as fun and something to enjoy with friends.
The first step in reviving a lost sporting culture is to involve young Australians in working out why sport has lost its appeal and how to reverse the decline in youth participation.
The relationship between commercialised sport and junior sport has largely been left to the periphery of Australian sporting analyses.
There is much work to do if Australia is to eradicate various barriers to participation in sport.
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Program Director – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Physical Education and Sport, Flinders University
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adj.), Charles Sturt University
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Professor, University of Sydney and Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, University of Sydney
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Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow Implementation Science, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Skill Acquisition and Motor Control, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University
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Reader in Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
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Professor of Public Health, Assistant Deputy Vice-chancellor Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
