Teaching Overweight Students in Physical Education: Comprehensive Strategies for Inclusion

by Weidong Li

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 include overweight students in physical education activities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138841358
• ISBN13: 9781138841352
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"