Secondary School Students’ Opinions about Physical Education Course

Authors : Mustafa Aydın Başar, Ali Coşkun

Pages : 263-273

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Publication Date : 2017-12-17

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Physical education and sports lessons, as well as all the courses in the curriculum, should be accepted as equally important. This course has an important place in the development of cognitive, emotional and social skills as psychomotor in the second childhood and adolescence period which corresponds to secondary school level. Students who take the course will make the best assessments about the quality of the course applications. In this study, it was tried to reveal the views of secondary school students about the applications of physical education and sports lessons. For this purpose, the interest and love of female and male students to physical education; views which report via drawing and slogan expressions about the lesson applications have been examined. The study is a semi-qualitative research based on drawing and slogan analysis. The findings show that students' love and interest in physical education classes is high; their lessons are mainly taught playing football. Playing volleyball and basketball follows this.
Keywords : Physical education, course activities, sports at school