Physical Illiteracy and Obesity Barrier: How Physical Education Can Overpass Potential Adverse Effects? A Narrative Review

Athos Trecroci, Pietro Luigi Invernizzi, Domenico Monacis and Dario Colella
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Athos Trecroci: Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, 20129 Milan, Italy
Pietro Luigi Invernizzi: Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, 20129 Milan, Italy
Domenico Monacis: Department of Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Education Sciences, University of Foggia, 71100 Foggia, Italy
Dario Colella: Department of Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Education Sciences, University of Foggia, 71100 Foggia, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Environments lacking in stimuli together with ineffective physical education programs can lead to motor illiteracy, causing several adverse effects that could be worsened by unhealthy weight conditions (e.g., obesity). Obesity can be seen as an actual barrier for children and adolescents, especially for affective, behavioral, physical, and cognitive domains. In this context, condensing what the literature proposes could be useful in order to improve the understanding of the best intervention strategies (i.e., proper physical education programs) to manage the adverse effects of motor illiteracy in relation to the obesity barrier. The purpose of this narrative review is to improve the understanding on how physical education programs can counteract the adverse effects of physical illiteracy and obesity barrier across childhood and adolescence. Proper physical education programs should develop motor competence by fostering an individual’s awareness, self-perception, autonomous motivation, and muscular fitness on a realistic scenario (functional task difficulty related to his/her possibilities) in the attempt to counteract the adverse effects of the obesity barrier. Such programs should be designed without overlooking a proper multi teaching style approach.

Keywords: motor development; motor literacy; teaching styles; muscular fitness; self-determination theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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