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Angie Kolen

Angie Kolen is a Professor in Human Kinetics at St. Francis Xavier University. Angie’s passion for teaching is obvious in her highly interactive classes and when she engages with her students in service learning promoting physical activity to children and toddlers in the programs she created, Fit 4 Life and Fit 4 Tots. She was awarded StFX’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2006, the Atlantic Association of Universities Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008 and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 2010.

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Enhancing Confidence and Competence to Promote Physical Activity and Health in Children
[ Research ] Service learning can facilitate learning how to promote physical activity and health to children. Mixed methods examined students’ perceived awareness, knowledge, confidence, attitude, and control in promoting physical activity and health to children in an after-school program, Fit 4 Life. This paper shares results from three interrelated studies related to university student learning about physical activity and health promotion with children.
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