This study is a narrative inquiry on university life of a pre-service primary school teacher in P.E. who dislikes physical activities. It analyzed the life through the P.E. major course using an autobiography, analytical methods and procedures. I have...
This study is a narrative inquiry on university life of a pre-service primary school teacher in P.E. who dislikes physical activities. It analyzed the life through the P.E. major course using an autobiography, analytical methods and procedures. I have done extracurricular activities and backpacking trips instead of physical activities. The reasons why I rarely do physical activities are lack of understanding for practice, insufficient of basal physical fitness, fear, and bad P.E. major course human relations. Since the backpacking trip that was my dream, I gradually begun to find my identity as an elementary school teacher. In addition, regarding the physical activities that I could find hope, there were discovering the possibilities through hard training, cooperative learning which is reflecting my improvement and those I overcame by praise and self-confidence. As a P.E. major course a senior, I would like to provide a piece of advice ‘nevertheless, don’t give up!’ for P.E. major students who are not good at and thus have a dislike to physical activities. Finally, it would be better to encourage self-esteem and motivation of the students who don’t like physical activities by giving more weight to ‘processes’ and ‘instructional methods’ than to ‘results’ and ‘functions’ in evaluating.