A comparative study of school sports in Finland, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Iran

Increasing opportunities for physical activity in schools is recognized as a global priority among school-age children and adolescents. Since the state of physical activity in some countries has not yet reached the recommended level of the World Health Organization, The purpose of this paper is to pay attention to the role of school in creating opportunities for physical activity and drawing a comparative framework of issues related to school sports, including assessing the quality of physical education (time, content and expertise of teachers), national strategies and extracurricular programs according to the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP). This study is a comparative study using the Bereday method. Explore in the methods of execution in the best educational systems of the world (Finland, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States) that have a CSPAP shows that many countries have designed and implemented physical activity initiatives that seek to increase the physical activity opportunities available to children before, during, and after school And It can also compensate for the lack of physical activity hours in the school's physical education lesson.