This dissertation is focused on understanding of the various elements and problems influencing on the practical condition of health education and behavioral pattern of middle and high school physical education teachers as well as on providing benefici...
This dissertation is focused on understanding of the various elements and problems influencing on the practical condition of health education and behavioral pattern of middle and high school physical education teachers as well as on providing beneficial materials for developing health education programs. for these purposes, from August 12th to September 12th in 1988, a survey was made by asking 173 middle and high school physical education teachers working at Taegu and Kyoungbuk area. The followings are the summary:
1. Of all the respondents, male teachers were 84.4%; 30 to 39 year-old teachers, 56.4%, more than a half of all respondents. 40.5% of them said they have no religions; 89.6%, not married; 50.0%, from small cities; 83.2%, in middle class 80.5% of them were from national teacher's schools; 63.0%, from others; 74.0%, working at national or public schools. 31.8% said they had been working for more than 6 to 10 years.
2. Of the respondents, 83.2% knew there are departments and graduate schools about health education in Korea and those who had the experience of having taken health education courses were 51.8%-94.4% took the course before 29 years old; 72.2%, before marriage; 80.0%, under 1 to 5-year-working experience as school teachers. The percentage of respondents who had never been trained about health education amounts to 74.6%, and their sources for gaining information and knowledge about it were newspapers(24.9%) or technical magazines(24.3%).
3. The survey showed that 97.7% of the teachers felt the necessity of health education, and 92.5% said it should be put into school curriculum. In that case, 53.2% said 1 to 5 classes of all should be assigned for health education. Appropriate ages of sex education, said 52.0%, should be in higher grades of elementary schools. 45.1% said the teacher fit for the health education is a nurse-teacher; 32.4%, a professional teacher; 22.5%, school physical education teacher. And the more teaching experience they had, the more necessities of health education teachers they were aware of.
4. Those who brush their teeth after each meal were 52.0%; who wash their hands after coming out of the toilet, 56.1%; who think of their own physical conditions as normal, 55.5% and as fat, 29.5%, as healthy, 56.6%; who were doing exercises, 84.4%; who were almost not doing exercises, among the female teachers, 55.6%; who had never been absent from schools for the disease for the past one year, 88.4%. And 49.7% of the males were smoking (female, 3.7%), a pack of cigarette a day, 33.5% and a half pack, 16.2%, 78.6% said they drink alcohol, and 36.4% of them drink once a week. 41.8% of male teachers drink once a week; 21.9% of females, once or twice a month.
5. Those who think there should be health-developing facilities at schools were 74.6%, and 43.9% thought it is necessary to have a room for exercise facilities in an appropriate size.
6. Most of the teachers thought the students were satisfied with their teaching, and 48.0% said the students were getting weak.
Judging from the facts above, as health education is not formal curriculum at school, it would be necessary to lead teacher's knowledge about it to a reasonable way through athletics classes closely related to health education. There should be a change of consciousness about health education by training teachers practically. Moreover, it would be beneficial for developing school education and students' health to have professional teachers in each school or to select health education in curriculum.