Essay On Physical Education

The modern Olympic movement was shaped through the soaring advocation of women’s rights (2, 8). An anonymous photographer (#2), in the 1908 Olympic games held in Great Britain where only 2 percent of women participated in the games, presents a photograph of Sybil Newall, a female British competitor at the games, and advocates women participating in the games. This photographer might have this view because he or she is a feminist that took place in the women suffrage movement and is baffled that solely two percent of athletes were women, and is urging the Olympics to make a great change. Hassiva Boulmerka (#8), an Algerian competitor that engaged in the 1992 games held in Spain where 29 percent of the athletes were women, believes that every woman has the ability of becoming an athlete, and must strengthen their mind and conscious, not just their body, to overcome these social challenges. Boulmerka, as a woman participant, may have this belief because she has underwent these obstacles as well, and wishes to motivate women in Spain to have the will and determination to overcome them and become a female athlete like herself. A good additional document that would better our understanding of how this social

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Dr. Sandra Nelson is an Associate Professor of Physical Education in the Spadoni College of Education at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Nelson is seeking continuation of her status as an Associate Professor with tenure at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Nelson received tenure in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. As the Chair of the Department of Graduate and Specialty Studies in the Spadoni College of Education, I have completed my evaluation of Dr. Nelson’s dossier for post tenure review as an Associate Professor, in accordance with the University’s 2013-2014 Faculty Manual Promotion and Tenure Guidelines and the Spadoni College of Education Promotion and Tenure Performance Expectations Elaborations document. Also, the

After a series of announcements about cardiac screenings and where to buy gym clothes, the Instructional Coordinator finally projected the three offerings for the students not signed up for one of the new specialized P.E. courses.The first choice was out immediately because there was no way I would pay to golf off-campus. One of the two remaining choices looked identical to a girls-only course I had taken my junior year, although this year all P.E. classes were officially coed. The group fitness unit offered would be less torturous than rotating between the cardio room and the weight room that catered to football players and wrestlers, not petite out-of-shape non-athletes, but I’d have to repeat hip-hop dance.

The sports world has been a new area where women are recognized. In previous times women’s sports were almost non-existent. In schools many girl teams did not receive adequate funds for uniforms and equipment. Boys sports were much more popular, such as football or basketball. If a girl wanted to play a guy sport she would be labeled as a

Pedersen 1996:183 back in the 1970s, scholarly works about women’s participation is limited and under developed. The situation slightly improved in the in the 1980s by CAAWS which produced a lot of information through articles on the history and sociology of sport. This trend continued through the 1990s where there was an improved amount of information on the history of Canadian women in sport mostly published in international anthropologie and also in the sports history journal. Pedersen 1996:183.

NEWARK—John Wescott, one of four physical health educators at North 13th Street Tech, is stuck in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to his school’s physical education customs.

In postwar America, according to Vignola, “These women were re-entering a society that had never truly seen a viable, successful female athletes. Few people understood their accomplishments.” Now in 2012 many people realize that these women paved the way for many female athletes of today. It wasn’t until 1971 that women were allowed in the pits, garage area, or the press box at the Indianapolis 500 for any reason at all. Finally in 1983 that marathon runner Kathrine Switer was allowed to have women’s marathon declared a sport in the Olympic games, Women’s Professional Football League wasn’t established until 1999. Women have come a long way in sports, and society, to get where they are today and still women are sexualized rather than praised for their achievements.

Hall uses the story of Alexandrine Gibb to illustrate the early years of 1920s and 1930s organized women sports in Canada. Prior to the first world war women's sport was not the control of women themselves. Participation in private sport clubs increased as well in the competitive nature. Women started to become ore involved with their activated and take hands on organizational responsibility for the clubs. In relation to this Alexandrine effectively became and active member of the sporting world of women. The authors argument centres around how despite the extradorinaiy effort put forth by Gibb she was easily forgotten for her significant contributions. The structure of Halls argument allows the article to be easy to follow. The author starts

Fritz Duras, and Rosalie Virtue had a great and lasting impact on physical activity and education in the next century, to revolutionise physical education into the subject taught and studied in Victoria

In the PBS video “A Physical Education in Naperville”, talks about the lack of physical education in are schools. What shocked me in this video is how low physical education is in are schools and how some schools don’t even have physical education as major priority. In the 1960’s President Kennedy made it a national priority, that physical education be part of every day school life. But in today’s world there “obesity rates today are for times higher than it used to be 1960s” (PBS).

Women’s participation in sports has changed over the centuries. In ancient times, men dominated societies. Women were viewed as the caretaker, a provider for life. Women who did participate were criticized and were thought of as threatening. In 18th century America, women were considered inferior to men because of the belief that women are the weaker sex. A woman’s purpose in life was to take care of the house, children, and husband. When they did want to participate in recreational sport, they need to be able to negotiate with men and with other women because societies did not make it easy for women to participate. For example, there was a

Dionigi, R, Litchfield, C and Murphy, B 2014, Physical education and female participation: A case study of teachers’ perspectives ad strategies, Issues in Educational Research

Christina shared the last article that we will look at and it was called “Elementary-Aged Students’ Perceptions Regarding Appropriate Instructional Practices in Physical Education.” With PE being looked at as “glorified recess or playtime,” by not only parents, but the public as a whole; it is easy to understand why people don’t see a benefit in offering students PE as a class (Barney, 2014). Therefore, it is important to point out the benefits of PE to help reassure those who are skeptical about it. This article explains the importance of teaching in a way that allows students to grow, to learn and to understand underlining goals, especially at a young age. 2,479 elementary students 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders (1,277 males and 1,202 females)

ending on the season and weather. She works with a team. There are other coaches that she works with and she interacts with other staff members. There are many positive aspects and job challenges in the physical education field.