Disability in Physical Education Textbooks: An Analysis of Image Content

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Inés Táboas-Pais ◽  
Ana Rey-Cao

The aim of this paper is to show how images of disability are portrayed in physical education textbooks for secondary schools in Spain. The sample was composed of 3,316 images published in 36 textbooks by 10 publishing houses. A content analysis was carried out using a coding scheme based on categories employed in other similar studies and adapted to the requirements of this study with additional categories. The variables were camera angle, gender, type of physical activity, field of practice, space, and level. Univariate and bivariate descriptive analyses were also carried out. The Pearson chi-square statistic was used to identify associations between the variables. Results showed a noticeable imbalance between people with disabilities and people without disabilities, and women with disabilities were less frequently represented than men with disabilities. People with disabilities were depicted as participating in a very limited variety of segregated, competitive, and elite sports activities.

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Magalhães ◽  
Elisabete Ramos ◽  
Maria Fátima Pina

Background:Proximity to urban green spaces (UGS) and open sports spaces (OSS) benefits health, promotes physical activity (PA) and sports practice (SP).Objective:Analyze the association between PA or SP according to distances between UGS or OSS and teenagers’ residences or schools.Methods:We evaluated 1333 (53.9% girls) teenagers (13 years old) living and studying in Porto, Portugal (EPITeen cohort). PA was classified as light or moderate/vigorous. Distances were the shortest routes from residences or schools to UGS/OSS, and classified in ≤250 m; >250 m to ≤500 m; >500 m to ≤750 m; >750 m. Chi-square test and chi-square for trends were used to compare proportions; associations were measured using logistic regression, through odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting to BMI and parental education.Results:Regarding vicinity’ of schools, the prevalence of moderate/vigorous PA among boys, decreases as distances to OSS increases. For girls, the prevalence of sports decreases as distances to UGS increase. For boys, we found an association between moderate/vigorous PA and proximity to OSS in the vicinity of schools: considering ≤250 m as reference, the odds of moderate/vigorous PA is 0.20 (0.06–0.63) for >250 m to ≤500 m; 0.21 (0.07–0.61) for >500 m to ≤750 m and 0.19 (0.06–0.58) for >750 m.Conclusion:Vicinities of schools seem to influence teenagers to be more physically active and increase sports participation.


Author(s):  
Юлия Филиппова ◽  
Yuliya Filippova

Educational manual is devoted to the organization of physical education with students of part-time Department. The manual provides brief information on human anatomy, physiology, theory and methodology of physical education, provides material for independent practical work aimed at mastering the methods and means of physical culture and sports activities and self-control, for the acquisition of personal experience in the use of physical culture and sports, the formation of professional and life skills. Physical culture is the key to active professional activity. It is the result of education and training in relation to a person's health, physical abilities and abilities, in the way of life and the construction of the necessary socio-cultural comfortable environment. Within the framework of classical University education, physical culture and sports are activities aimed at achieving personal maturity. The Olympic Charter says: "Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a harmonious whole dignity of the body, will and mind." The student after mastering the program of this discipline in accordance with the GEF VPO should: know: the basics of physical culture and a healthy lifestyle; be able to: apply methods and means of knowledge, learning and self-control to maintain their health, moral and physical self-improvement; methodically it is correct to use means and methods of physical education, health promotion for achievement of the due level of physical readiness providing full-fledged social and professional activity. Own: a system of practical skills that ensure the preservation and strengthening of health, development and improvement of psychophysical abilities and qualities (with the implementation of the established standards for General physical and sports and technical training); personal experience in the use of physical and sports activities to improve their functional and motor capabilities, to achieve personal life and professional goals. It is important to distinguish between sports activities that are built around officially organized competitive interactions of individuals and physical activity, which is based on the deliberate use of physical exercise (physical activity) to achieve certain goals (health promotion, recreation, rehabilitation, etc.) and which is also often organized in the form of competitions. Mastering this subject should change and make people's lives better.


KINESTETIK ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
Rohmad Apriyanto ◽  
Adi S

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of learning and physical activity in Physical Education with online media during the covid 19. Pandemic is a descriptive quantitative research about learning conditions using online learning. The population in this study SMA Plus Alfatimah students who carry out online learning. The samples in this study were Class X, XI and XII sample using total sampling. There are 346 respondes. The data collection instrument used online learning questionnaire used google form. Data analysis used descriptive statistics. The study showed that, students assessed physical education learning with online learning is very effective (8.3%) effective (36.9%) normal (40.2%) although there are also students who think ineffective online learning (11.6) very ineffective (2.9%). Result research on physical activity during the covid pandemic 19 (4.6) students do very high physical activity, (19.9%) in the high category. (69.7%) medium category and (5.8%) in low category. Types of sports activities that are conducted by students (65.1 °%) health sports, (23.2%) recreational sports, (9.1%) sports education, (2.6%) accomplishment sports. The habits of students has changes because this pandemic. Students are more often help parents activities at home. Habit changes due to during the pandemic, students do not live in school dormitories but in school respective homes. During online activities most of the students do not experienced significant impacts both physically and psychologically. Learners tend to be more interested in a mix of learning both online and offline. Students also have a deep level of interest use of certain online media used by educators. Learners also have an interest in the approach to using online learning methods.


Retos ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 295-299
Author(s):  
Irene Moya Mata ◽  
Inmaculada Ros Ros ◽  
José Peirats Chacón

Este estudio analiza la imagen del cuerpo representado en las portadas de los libros de texto de Educación Física vinculado a un tipo de actividad física, para comprobar si se ajustan a las directrices que marca la legislación actual con respecto a los materiales curriculares. El estudio es de tipo empírico, descriptivo y comparativo entre los libros de texto analizados. La muestra estuvo constituida por 12 portadas de dos editoriales, publicadas bajo la Ley Orgánica 8/2013 para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa (LOMCE). La técnica de investigación fue el análisis de contenido a través de la herramienta SAIMEF (Sistema de Análisis de Imágenes en Educación Física). Se realizó un análisis descriptivo de los datos donde se utilizaron tablas de contingencia y se aplicó la prueba Chi-cuadrado de Pearson (x2), para contrastar la significatividad de la variable sexo y la variable deporte. Los resultados mostraron portadas fotográficas y en color, siendo los protagonistas de la actividad física los hombres, pertenecientes a la etapa de la niñez, de raza blanca, somatotipo ectomorfo y realizando deporte, en ausencia de discapacidad; vinculando el deporte individual con las mujeres y el colectivo y de adversario con los hombres. Estos resultados están muy alejados de las orientaciones que marca la legislación española con respecto a los materiales curriculares, y concretamente en los libros de texto de Educación Física. No cabe duda de que es necesaria una reflexión sobre los materiales curriculares, pues los contenidos ofrecidos a través de las imágenes, son fuente de asentamiento de valores y potenciación de actitudes, y se ha de trasmitir una sociedad sin discriminación para seguir avanzando hacia la igualdad.Abstract. This study analyzes the image of the body represented on the covers of textbooks of Physical Education linked to a type of physical activity, to check if they conform to the guidelines set by the current legislation regarding curricular materials. The study is empirical, descriptive and comparative among the textbooks analyzed. The sample consisted of 12 covers of two editorials, published under the Organic Law 8/2013 for the Improvement of Educational Quality (LOMCE). The research technique was content analysis through the SAIMEF (System of Analysis of Images in Physical Education) tool. We performed a descriptive analysis of the data where contingency tables were used and the Chi-square Pearson test (x2), was applied, to contrast the significance of the variable sex and the variable sport. The results showed covers with photograph and color image format, being the protagonists of the physical activity the men, pertaining to the childhood, of white race, ectomorphic somatotype and realizing sport, in absence of disability; linking individual sport with women and the collective and adversary with men. These results are very far from the guidelines set by Spanish legislation regarding curricular materials, and specifically in physical education textbooks. There is no doubt that a reflection on the curricular materials is necessary, since the contents offered through the images are a source of values settlement and empowerment of attitudes, and a society without discrimination must be transmitted to continue advancing towards equality.


2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Valjent ◽  
Libor Flemr

The implementation of regular physical activity and sport of youth depends on genetic predisposition infl uenced by many factors. Th e study examines on sample of 1221 students of ČVUT, including 947 boys and 274 girls in age 20-28 years. Th e results confi rm that the selected indicators are involved in education of youth within the meaning of positive infl uence to sports activities by diff erent degrees. Friends and schoolmates do one’s best (average of 7-point Likert scale 5,37) about it at boys, closely watched by family (5,15) and teachers of physical education at university (4,79). Th e family of girls have the largest positive infl uence (5,34), friends and schoolmates (5,26) and also their boyfriends (5,16). Teachers of physical education from high schools have the least infl uence (4,31 at boys, respectively 4,04 at girls), our national representative sport teams (4,30, respectively 4,21) and teachers of physical education at elementary schools (4,10, respectively even 3,90 at girls – the only negative value of all indicators).


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-355
Author(s):  
Mehmet YILDIRIM

The aim of this research is to determine the physical activity levels of physical education and sports school students and to examine the physical activity levels according to some demographic characteristics. The objective of the research is composed of 480 students who are studying different programs in Bozok University Physical Education and Sports School in 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the research is composed of 300 students’ determined random sampling method among the students studying in Bozok University Physical Education and Sports School in 2017-2018 academic year. Demographic information about the students in the survey was obtained with the personal information form and information about the level of participation in physical activity by the International Physical Activity Scale (Short form). Frequency, percentage, cross tables, Chi-Square and ANOVA tests were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the analyzes; statistically significant differences were found between physical activity levels according to gender, body mass index, education department, sports branch and cigarette use variables (p<.05).


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
А. Орехов ◽  
A. Orehov ◽  
Л. Демченская ◽  
L. Demchenskaya

The article focuses on the issue of physical activity of children and young people with special attention to students in foreign schools for which this problem has become urgent in recent decades. The authors consider the projects devoted to the development of new courses and their introduction into school educational programs as well as into teacher training abroad. These projects promote physical education and sports activity widely recognized as priority guidelines for future generation development. The paper includes the analysis of positive experience on the organization of physical culture lessons and extra-curricular sports activities in some European and Asian countries. The authors also discuss the work of international institutions on promoting schoolchildren’s physical activity in the context of international programs and projects. The research vector of the present study is directed towards the familiarization of Russian professionals with foreign investigations and practice in the fi eld of physical education and sport to enable possible comparison of their own experience with the experience existing in other countries according to chosen discourse. The article is based on authentic scientifi c materials from foreign sources, contains up-to-date statistics and presents research techniques which might broaden scientifi c and practical horizons of researchers and teachers in Russia.


2021 ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
V. FAZAN

Adaptive physical culture and adaptive sports are the sphere of life in which the most successful is the socialization of disabled people and people with disabilities, their integration into society, the development of rehabilitation potential - as a set of biological capabilities of social abilities and psychological aspirations, improving the quality of life (Evseev, & Shapkova, 2000). Given the opportunities available in sports for social rehabilitation and integration of people with disabilities, in recent years, almost all over the world are developing active efforts to organize and develop adaptive sports among people with disabilities (Evseev, & Shapkova, 2000). In many developed countries, comprehensive programs of physical culture and sports work among the disabled, including children (Dmitriev, 2002).Comprehensive rehabilitation - as a process of ensuring the readiness of a person with health and disability to implement a lifestyle that would not contradict the lifestyle of healthy (normally developing) people requires the mandatory use of exercise adapted to a specific disease or defect of motor activity. Physical rehabilitation is the basis, the basis of any type of rehabilitation (social-labor, social-domestic, socio-cultural, etc.). This is due to the fact that man is indivisible biological, psychological and social, which are in the closest relationship and interaction. Human motor activity is embedded in genes and is associated with a fundamental property of a living organism - biological adaptation to living conditions and living conditions. However, modern living and working conditions have reduced to almost zero all human physical activity, created a situation of unclaimed physical condition.Hypodynamia and hypokinesia are indispensable attributes of modern civilized life have become one of the main factors causing the deterioration of public health. Reducing the volume and intensity of physical activity, low costs of muscular work, simplification and impoverishment of human motor activity leads to negative results in the functioning of both internal organs and systems of man and his psyche. And if a healthy person reduces his physical activity to an unacceptable level, then only he is to blame.The responsibility for forced hypodynamics and hypokinesia of children with disabilities, whose natural physical activity is limited and they need targeted assistance and special conditions, rests entirely with parents, doctors and other professionals, including adaptive physical education. The problem here is that in the mass consciousness and even among specialists (physicians, psychologists, representatives of traditional physical culture, etc.) the idea of the need for mandatory restriction of movement, motor activity in almost any disease, stereotypes of faith only in pharmacological and other medical means and methods of treatment and prevention, in omnipotent additives, stimulants, activators, fat burners, etc. This is due, on the one hand, the insufficient level of culture of society and the individual in the field of anthropology, its physicality and psyche, and on the other - the massive advertising campaigns of manufacturers of these goods.The scientific and medical literature examines in detail the other negative changes that occur in the human body due to hypodynamics and hypokinesia, from the cellular to the body level, describes in detail the so-called motorvisceral reflexes and other mechanisms of disease, the main cause of which there is immobility.Being one of the most important factors of the educational and cultural process, adaptive physical culture is a universal means of humanization, as it realizes the reproduction of human personality as a whole in its physical and spiritual unity. In the process of adaptive physical culture a person not only socializes and is formed (strengthens and improves residual health, corrects its defects, develops compensation mechanisms, learns certain social roles, functions, etc.), but also “forms and creates the world”, forms and “conquers” the social space - first self-determined, creates its own understanding, vision, sense of the world, designs and builds its own activities, social environment. Thus, adaptive physical culture and, especially adaptive sports, are important factors in the socialization of people with disabilities and people with disabilities, their integration into society. However, these factors, which are always realized, their use lags behind both the needs and the possibilities of today.


Author(s):  
Josiene de Oliveira Couto ◽  
Raphael Henrique Oliveira Araujo ◽  
Ellen Caroline Mendes da Silva ◽  
Nara Michelle Moura Soares ◽  
Antonio Evaldo dos Santos ◽  
...  

Abstract The present study aimed to verify the contribution of different physical activity domains to “total physical activity” in Brazilian adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study using secondary data from the third edition of the National School Health Survey - PeNSE, 2015. The sample consisted of 100,497 adolescents of both sexes enrolled in the 9th grade of elementary schools. A linear regression model was used to verify how much each domain contributed to total physical activity, considering gender, type of municipality and region. The domain with the largest contribution to “total physical activity” regardless of sociodemographic and environmental variables was “extra-school physical activity” (R2 = 0.60), followed by “active commuting” (R2 = 0.34), and finally “Physical Education classes” (R2 = 0.23). The contribution of the different domains varied by gender, type of municipality and region, and it was concluded that “extra-school physical activity” make the greatest contribution to “total physical activity”, followed by “active commuting” and “Physical Education classes”. In addition, variation was observed in the contribution of domains by gender, type of municipality and region.


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