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Retrospectives of Physical Education Classes during COVID-19: Exploring Elementary School Students' Participation and Influencing Factors

  • Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching
  • Abbr : JSST
  • 2024, 9(1), pp.109-131
  • DOI : 10.23041/jsst.2024.9.1.005
  • Publisher : Education Research Institute at CNUE
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : January 1, 2024
  • Accepted : February 28, 2024
  • Published : February 28, 2024

Son, Hyukjun 1

1세종대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to look back at physical education classes during COVID-19 to explore elementary school students' participation in class and the factors that influence it. A quantitative survey was conducted among fourth graders (n=108), and focus group interviews were conducted with students who exhibited typical behavioral characteristics (n=10) and their homeroom teachers (n=5). The quantitative data collected were subjected to primary descriptive statistical analysis, and the qualitative data from the in-depth interviews were subjected to inductive category analysis. The results of the analysis showed that, first, students' class participation scale in physical education class had a low percentage of positive responses in all items of behavioral participation (13.6%), emotional participation (16.6%), cognitive participation (20.1%), and subject participation (21.9%). Second, the participation patterns of elementary school students in physical education classes during the COVID-19 period were categorized as 'learned lethargy, exhaustion and abandonment, intersection of expectation and anxiety, and healing through energy dissipation' according to personal and situational factors such as participation patterns, motivation to participate in class, expectations, and repetitive behavior patterns. The factors affecting this were analyzed by categorizing them into 'teacher-student relationship factors, classroom environment factors, and socio-cultural factors' and discussed to draw implications for effectively dealing with the new past when the epidemic arrives.

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