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Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on Global Issues in Next-Generation Teacher Education
Refers to facilitators and barriers that influence behavior. They may be biologically determined, or may exist in the physical or the social environment that they live. They are characterized as facilitators and barriers ( Fahey, Instel, & Roth 2002 ).
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Promoting Culturally Sensitive Strategies to Enhance Physical Education among Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Jerono P. Rotich (North Carolina A&T State University, USA) and Tiffany Fuller (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9948-9.ch020
Abstract
Given the prevalence of overweight and obesity among immigrant and refugee children and youth in America, there is a growing need for physical education, physical activity and sports professionals to incorporate culturally and socially responsive strategies into their programs and activities According to Ike-Chinaka (2013), obesity has been identified as a chronic disease that emerges among immigrant populations after they settled in the United States of America. This chapter will focus on the challenges of newly arrived immigrants and refugee youth, and determinants of participation in physical activity and sports. Additionally, the chapter offers some culturally and socially sensitive tips and strategies that professionals in physical education, physical activity and sports can incorporate into their programs and activities so as to increase the participation among newly arrived immigrants and refugee youth.
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Chapter 21
Corporate Online Reporting and Their Determinants in Indian Services Sector
Determinant is defined as a factor which decisively affects the nature or outcome of something.
Published in Chapter: Corporate Online Reporting and Their Determinants in Indian Services Sector; From: Handbook of Research on Promotional Strategies and Consumer Influence in the Service Sector
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The Making of the Information Society: Taxonomy of Concepts, Determinants, and Implications
If agriculture and manufacturing determined the making of the earlier two societies, a composition of different spheres of activities—technological, economic, occupational, spatial, and cultural—determined the creation of the Information Society.
Published in Chapter: The Making of the Information Society: Taxonomy of Concepts, Determinants, and Implications; From: Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society
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