International Award for FEDU Professor
Date / Time: 9 June 2016
University of Waikato’s Professor Claire McLachlan (left) and her research collaborator Sophie Foster have received an international award from the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) for their research into children’s physical education.
The global project aims to increase children's physical abilities and resilience in physical challenges and play, and is aimed at children and teachers. The New Zealand researchers studied more than 200 children across four early childhood centres, and Professor McLachlan says the project is unique because there are few large intervention studies on physical activity in under-fives. She says the research threw up some useful local approaches to supporting physical activity in the early childhood education environment and she’s hopeful that the benefits seen in the project will be long lasting.The pair will give a short presentation of their project next month at the 2016 OMEP World Conference in Seoul, Korea, along with six other award winners from across the globe.
Contact Professor Claire McLachlan, 0800 924 5286 ext 9452, or [email protected]