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Article: Positive psychology and quality physical education: help students lead the pleasant life, the engaged life, and the meaningful life through physical education.
- Article from:
- JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The use of best practices to motivate and inspire students intrinsically is critical to quality physical education and lifelong physical activity (Butler & Anderson, 2002; National Association for Sport and Physical Education [NASPE], 2003), Moreover, Lee (2004) recommended that quality physical education in schools create "an environment where students choose to participate in physical activity with confidence, enthusiasm, and a desire to learn" (p. 24). Consistent with quality physical education and inherent to positive psychology is the assumption that schools play a key role in the promotion of positive human development (Clonan, Chafouleas, McDougal, & Riley-Tillman, ...