Moving From an Implicit to an Explicit Approach of Life Skills Development and Transfer: The Case of Surfing in Schools

Fernando Santos, Corliss Bean, Nuno Azevedo, António Cardoso, Paulo Pereira, Hugo Cruz
2020 SAGE Open  
The purpose of this article is to provide insight on a partnership between Matosinhos City Hall that coordinates educational programs including physical education and the School of Higher Education of Porto. For the past 2 years, the institutions have worked together to develop a local curriculum for physical education teachers to foster life skills development and transfer in their students. In this article, we provide an overview about (a) how the partnership was developed, (b) how
more » ... g fundamental pedagogical components provided the platform for later explicit life skills teaching, (c) the facilitators and barriers that emerged from these efforts, and (d) plans to integrate an explicit approach to sport-based life skills development and transfer.
doi:10.1177/2158244020933316 doaj:8928c134b2014d34ad38516a614bea55 fatcat:bgpsccm5lzbo7kamzmi5tujx5q