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High school physical education: A place to compete not necessarily a place to learn
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sykes, Karen |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION: A PLACE TO COMPETE NOT NECESSARILY A PLACE TO LEARN FEBRUARY 1997 KAREN L. SYKES, B.S., THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Patt Dodds The purpose of this study was to examine how college freshmen make meaning of their secondary school physical education experiences. The study was also designed to explore the events, individuals or factors associated with their physical education experiences that influenced the ways in which students construct their meanings. Using concepts first identified in Kelly’s (1955) “personal construct psychology”, the study was designed to understand how college students describe their experiences in high school physical education and their current beliefs about the value and meaning of those experiences. A semi-structured, open-ended interview format was used to engage 27 college freshmen from a small private, two year college in New England in a discussion about their high school physical education experiences. This methodology allowed the students/participants to ascribe their own meaning to the experiences they had in physical education. Each audiotaped interview session lasted approximately sixty minutes and was later transcribed for analysis. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6313&context=dissertations_1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
