Factors affecting the creation of a new ecology in a boys-only physical education class at a military school.
This study describes the changes which occurred in the instructional ecology of a boys' physical education class with a change of teacher. Moreover, it examines the critical incidences which promoted and inhibited that teacher's attempts to change the accountability system of the class from one of attendance and minimal participation to one of performance quality. Twenty-two eighth and ninth grade boys participated in a 6-week program of physical activity with the researcher as the new teacher. Through an action research methodology, using the teacher's reflective accounts of lessons together with formal and informal interviews with the students, it was determined that three factors were critical in the change process: the students' previous history with the subject, the nature of the set tasks, and the emotional climate of the class.
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Department of Health and Human Performance, Auburn University, USA. hastipe@mail.auburn.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D010806:Physical Education and Training / Q000379:methods*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D012574:Schools; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*