Sport for better success in school
Several studies showing the benefits of physical education on health and academic success, experts emphasize the need to increase the hours allocated to this course in elementary and secondary school.
The practice of physical activities also has effects on the capacities of attention and inhibition. We ignore a stimulus of something that could disturb us to stay focused on our task, ”explains Marie-Maude Dubuc. The young woman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Kino-Québec Research Chair on the adoption of a physically active lifestyle in a school context at the University of Sherbrooke.