Abstract
The aim of this paper was to gain and understand of the views of a group of parents, school administrators, preschool teachers and sports educators on the physical activity level in early childhood in five Europe countries. Structured individual interview was carried out with 80 participants. Participants were the parents, preschool or nursery school administrators, pre-school and nursery teachers and sport educators of children enrolled in government nursery and preschools in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovakia and Turkey. In this study interviews had planned out with 4 school administrators, 4 parents, 4 preschool teachers, 4 preschool sports educators 5 from each country school. The common opinion of the partner countries for fifth question is as follows: Building more play areas for the physical characteristics of children, enriching the preschool programs in physical activity, designing the equipment and play tools for children, building the activity areas for after-school playing groups, developing programs or projects to increase the physical activity levels of children through further cooperation between sports clubs and schools. According to the results of this study, it is revealed that there is a need for physical activity programs to be applied in childhood period. This study was supported by the EU project '590769-EPP-1-2017-1-TR-SPO-SSCP, Development of Preschool Physical Activity, Sports and Game Program for Strengthening of Grassroots Sports in EU.