Sport psychology. Sport psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from many related fields including biomechanics, physiology, kinesiology and psychology. It involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors.
Home education is increasingly popular in the UK. Known as âhomeschoolingâ in the United States, it simply means that parents take responsibility for their childrenâs education rather than delegating it to a school.ccording to the 1996 education act in England and Wales, it is parents (not the state) who are responsible for providing their childrenâs education âin school or otherwiseâ. Their education must be suitable for the age, ability and aptitude of each child.
A recent letter signed by around 130 early childhood education experts, including myself, published in the Daily Telegraph (11 Sept 2013) advocated an extension of informal, play-based pre-school provision and a delay to the start of formal âschoolingâ in England from the current effective start until the age of seven (in line with a number of other European countries who currently have higher levels of academic achievement and child well-being).