The purpose of this study is to find out what changes there were in students' perception of the subject and their participation attitude by applying a Hanaro teaching model to elementary schools, and to offer basic data that may be utilized in the fie...
The purpose of this study is to find out what changes there were in students' perception of the subject and their participation attitude by applying a Hanaro teaching model to elementary schools, and to offer basic data that may be utilized in the field of physical education in elementary schools.
Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of this study, the researcher selected as participants 30 sixth grade boy and girl students in one class in D Elementary School located in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, and conducted research with ethnography based on qualitative research methodology. For a total of 11 weeks, 41 sessions (18 sessions in connection with another curriculum) from March to May 2009, the study was applied to the class and data collected through participant observation, an in-depth interview, the preparation of questionnaires, and products from the activity. The study analyzed the collected data through an inductive category analysis. In order to ensure the truthfulness of the analyzed data, the study confirmed the results as follows through a member review, peer discussions, and triangulation.
First, the physical education class applied with the Hanaro teaching model changed the elementary school students' perception about the subject positively. Through various activities in the Hanaro teaching, students who even hated physical education began to have an interest in physical education and to perceive physical education to be an interesting class. Also, students who considered physical education only for the enhancement of motor functions and something to be made only with the body came to believe physical education as being necessary for both the mind and the body while experiencing indirect experiential activities along with direct experiential activities. Moreover, they performed diverse physical activities even in their ordinary lives through the physical education class given in school and continuous related activities, and subsequently they felt the physical education class as being one with ordinary life.
Second, the physical education class applied changed the elementary school students' participation attitudes positively. Passive students who experienced only a function-oriented physical education class showed active participation attitudes during participation in a variety of activities such as seeing, listening, reading, writing, and drawing. Also, they were able to approach physical education more in comfort through a humanitarian activity in which they were interested, and this made them gradually have self-confidence. Furthermore, the self-confidence gained from the physical education class affected even their daily lives. In addition, they were able to cultivate a sense of consideration that thinks of others first before me in the course of mutually conflicting with and understanding each other in the team activity in which they acted together with others.
As such, the research results concluded that the Hanaro teaching model is sufficiently valuable as an integrative physical education teaching method for whole person education. Students came to think of physical education as being more interesting through the Hanaro teaching model, and to experience and understand diverse activities of physical education. Plus, the positive change in participation attitude affected deep into ordinary life, and accordingly became an opportunity for the students to develop as a whole person. Hence, follow-up research should demand continued studies for delivering a broad spectrum of programs so that the Hanaro teaching model may be applied.
Lastly, it is hoped that this study will be basic data that is utilized practically in seeking educational activities for an integrative physical education class in the field of elementary school education as well as in confirming the effect of the Hanaro teaching model for achieving the goal of physical education, which is whole person education in the psychomotor, affective, and cognitive domains.