10 research outputs found
Do pedometers motivate people to walk more?
Physical activity confers many important health benefits. The 'active living message' recommends that adults should accumulate 30 ruin of moderate-intensity physical activity (e.g. brisk walking) on most--preferably all--days of the week, but the populations of most developed countries are not meeting this target. Walking is one mode of activity that most people can do without skills, equipment, facilities or extra expense and walking has less bias in terms of age, sex and social class than facility-based exercise. Thus we need to investigate interventions that promote walking
Hermeneutic Phenomenology meets Transformative Learning
The research methods that have been employed in the latest studies on transformative
learning are several. This diversity can be considered as a strength insofar as
each method, with its underlying philosophy of research, has contributed to the
enhancement of transformative learning, namely disclosing new insight