Carol Fuller, Viki Lloyd

Martial Arts and Well-being (eBook, ePUB)

Connecting communities and promoting health

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives.

This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being - regardless of whether these improvements are 'true' in a medical sense - this book offers an important and original window into the importance of beliefs to health and well-being as well as the value of thinking about education as a process of life-long learning.

This book will be of great interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in sports and exercise psychology, martial art studies and health and well-being. It should also be of interest to sociologists, social workers and martial arts practitioners.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315448084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315448060
• Artikelnr.: 58356343

Autorenporträt

Carol Fuller is a professor of education and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the Institute of Education, University of Reading, Reading, UK.



Viki Lloyd is the director of the Reading Acupuncture Clinic and the lead instructor of Sei Shin Kan School of Karate and Reading Chenjiagou Taijiquan GB, Reading, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part 1
Scope of the research and structure of the book
Part 2
Methods
Research design
Data collection
Sample
Survey
Interviews
Data analysis
Survey
Interviews
2 Theories of learning behaviour and reality construction - their value in
understanding health
and well-being
Introduction
Exploring individual attitudes and behaviour
Behaviourism
Social cognitive theory
Four main sources of self-efficacy
Self-efficacy and human health and well-being
Society and behaviour
Culture and group behaviour
Martial arts, health and well-being
Eastern philosophy and its relevance to martial arts
Chapter summary
3 Teachers of martial arts
Introduction
Sample
Motivations for taking up a martial art
Physical
Health
Well-being
General
Health and health awareness
Well-being
Additional benefits
Culture
Community
Inclusion
Challenges to teaching martial arts
Value of teaching
Access to martial arts
Chapter summary
4 Health and physical well-being and the teaching and learning of martial
arts
Introduction
Sample
Motivations for taking up a martial art
Health
General physical well-being
Support for health: awareness and benefits
Health awareness
Health benefits
Teaching and learning
Learning and the martial arts teacher
Qualities in the teacher
Challenges to learning
Being a martial artist
Chapter summary
5 Well-being
Introduction
Sample
Martial arts and well-being
Well-being and confidence
Intellectual
Learning
Culture and ethics
Social
Management of stress and the link to health and well-being
Chapter summary
6 Connecting communities and promoting health
Introduction
Motivations to learn
Perceived benefits of martial arts
Health benefits
Health awareness
Well-being
The social context of learning
The role of the teacher
Identity in martial arts
Connecting communities and promoting health
Chapter summary
7 Conclusion
Significance of the research
Recommendations for policy and practice
References
Index