Ergonomics for children

Currently, health promotion in schools is growing ever more important. In this context, the students’ “work place” has to receive much more attention in terms of a better inclusion of ergonomic seating and working conditions which has been the centre of public debate. Not only do adults spend an increasing amount of their time sitting, but students as well.

Traditional furniture encourages children to sit up straight and still. We think this should be a thing of the past. Health, well being and learning depend on movement, even when students are sitting.

"If you observe children while they are sitting, you will very quickly notice how ergonomic chairs should be designed" (Breithecker).

                    Video: Life is movement

Article:

13.11.2012

Bodies in Motion, by Dr. Dieter Breithecker

"Ergonomics enters classroom" an ergo-dynamic concept for holistic learning and human development.

Downloads:

Downloads:

• Exercise is not just exercise [PDF | 152 KB]
   
• Bodies in motion  [PDF | 1.36 MB]

• Development and learning needs movement [PDF | 1.2 MB]
   
• "particulary beneficial to development advancement" [PDF | 3.1 MB]
   
• Ergonomics - a subject for the school as a place of work? [PDF | 983 KB]

• Students, furniture and what moves them [PDF | 101 KB]

• More health and well being in the "school as a place of work" - a project report [PDF | 303 KB]

• Physically active school children - alert heads [PDF | 288 KB]

• What the classroom of the future will look like - a project report [PDF | 1.4 MB]

• Learning and moving in an "active school" (Project Hannover, Germany) [PDF | 399 KB]

• The important play of children in testing their limits [PDF | 2.0 MB]
   

Interviews:

 

      A moverse en el salón para aprender mejor



Dr. Dieter Breithecker in an interview with Ty Goddard. Ty is the Director of the British Council for School Environments (BCSE), an organisation that strives to improve the quality of learning environments to the long-term benefit of young people, staff and communities.


 Dr. Dieter Breithecker in an interview with the Colorado NBC Channel during his stay in the States



 

Further Information:

Dr. Dieter Breithecker
breithecker@haltungbewegung.de

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