Numerous studies today warn of the ambivalent impact of social networks and mobile phone displays on teen agers behaviours. Their possibly educational and relational dimensions can quickly be swept away by their negative effects on the physical and mental health of young people: sedentary lifestyle, addictive nature of their uses, “obligation of permanent connection contributing to stress”.

Main challenges of SONETTE are focused on the (i) exploration of the place of body awareness in physical education (PE) in countries Japan and France where educational systems and sporting cultures are issued from deeply different concepts. (ii) On the exploration and search for greater body ownership and well-being, as a method to mitigate the instrumentalization imposed by modern society (Rosa and Wallenhorst, 2022).

SONETTE puts together French and Japanese teams to investigate major international concerns of teen-agers well-being and more specifically the combination of mental health and physical well-being.

SONETTE challenges of this project are threefold:

CHAL-1– scientific: comparative approach to sensory education processes in different cultures (structures, purposes, professional practices and learning) – This approach must in particular provide a corpus of positive or negative approaches and tools, which will be brought together in the activity report at the end of the project.

CHAL-2 – professional: effective professional practices will be highlighted – they will then be disseminated within university and educational establishments via professional networks such as AEEPS in France for example.

CHAL-3 – societal: achieving the two previous objectives will contribute to the physical and mental well-being of adolescents which will be evaluated and will be the subject of oral communications to the general public.

SONETTE

SOcial NETworks and TEenagers stress: Interoceptive awareness in Physical Education for improved mental peace (a project of the “Exploration JAPON” programme of the French Embassy in Tokyo)

Project leader: Pr. Mary SCHIRRER – Ph-D

Associate Professor – Sociology, Physical Education and Sports University of Lorraine: Faculty of Sports Sciences and LISEC (UR 2310) 30 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54600 Villers-Lès-Nancy, France
0033 +6 03 50 93 90
mary.schirrer@univ-lorraine.fr
https://staps-nancy.univ-lorraine.fr/
http://www.lisec-recherche.eu/
https://www.univ-lorraine.fr/

Learn more about SONETTE project here.