Negotiating adolescents' physically active life during the school day.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

School contexts are addressed as important for encouraging adolescents' physically active lives, where whole-school approaches have emerged as globally recognized strategies. Recent research emphasizes the need to further understand the contexts relating to physical activity (PA) and strategies to enhance students' and staff's agency in relation to PA opportunities. In the current study, we explore early adolescent students' daily PA from an ecological perspective, examining the negotiated opportunities and barriers to PA within differing school contexts and how individual agency is expressed in relation to PA.

Methods

This ethnographic collective case study was conducted in four Swedish middle schools that varied in size, resource denseness, and whether they we

SUBMITTER: Hoy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11925886 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature