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GUEST SPEAKER

Prof. Rakel Kavena Shalyefu

Associate Professor in Lifelong Learning and
Community Development
University of Namibia

GUEST SPEAKER

Assistant Professor Timothy M. Makubuya, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer & Director of Center for Sports
Research in Uganda
University Kampala, Uganda

TOPIC:
Re-Imagining Physical activity and Education Programs in Post COVID-19 Academic
Institutions

Prior to the 2019 global Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, the ability to engage and
participate in Physical activity (PA) and Physical education (PE) programs drastically
diminished with many children and youth receiving less than the recommended time for
PA and many academic institutions globally, having limited time for PE regardless of the
recommendations. However, after a couple of months into the global shut down in 2020, it
was not only evident that children and adults alike, needed to engage in various forms of
physical movements to enhance their cognition, and improve their emotional wellbeing.
More so, both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World
Health Organizations (WHO) issued vital recommended continued physical movements
within our stay-at-home confinements during the lockdowns. In both developing and
developed countries, COVID-19 provided an unintended consequence for parents and
teachers to have a firsthand glimpse of the dangers of physical immobility, inactivity,
and prolonged sedentariness. Moreover, physical inactivity has been widely reported to
negatively impact academic performance and student or learner’s outcomes. Based on
the Whole School Whole Community, whole Child Framework, this presentation provides
novel strategies for incorporating daily PA at all levels of education institutions and
recommending daily PE at all primary and secondary schools worldwide.