Promoting schoolchildren’s self-esteem in physical education: testing the effectiveness of a five-month teacher training     

Benjamin Rubeli  Esther Oswald  Achim Conzelmann  Jürg Schmid  Stefan Valkanover 《Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy》2020,25(4):346-360

ABSTRACT

Background: Schoolchildren’s personality development is considered a central goal of physical education (PE). With regard to the relationship between psychological well-being and global self-esteem over the life course, the promotion of positive self-esteem is an issue of particular significance. Past research revealed that PE taught with an individualized teacher frame of reference (iTFR) and a reflexive teaching style is associated with positive effects on facets of children’s perceived sports competence. However, it remains an open question whether this teaching styles has the potential to promote positive self-esteem.

Purpose: The present study investigated whether a five-month teacher training, aimed to enhance the teachers’ iTFR and their reflexive teaching style in PE, has a positive effect on students’ perceived sports competence and their global self-esteem. To analyse the implementation quality, changes in students’ perceived iTFR and perceived reflexive teaching style were investigated.

Method: A total of 21 teachers were assigned to either an intervention group (n?=?13), receiving the five-month teacher training, or a control group (n?=?8) consisting of regular teaching without teacher training. The teacher training encompassed five three-hour consecutive sessions during which the teachers acquired theoretical and practical knowledge about the promotion of competence perceptions in PE with a reflexive teaching style and an iTFR. Between the sessions, the teachers were instructed to implement an iTFR and a reflexive teaching style into their own PE classes. To evaluate the effects of the teacher training, their students’ (N?=?315, 53.7% girls, M_age?=?13.2 y, SD_age?=?1.3 y) perceived teaching style (iTFR and reflexive teaching), perceived sports competence and global self-esteem were measured with paper-pencil questionnaires at three measurement points (pre, post and follow-up).

Findings: Linear mixed effect models showed that students of the intervention group reported an increase in their teachers’ reflexive teaching style, but there were no changes with regard to iTFR. With regard to students’ perceived sports competence and global self-esteem, there were significant interaction effects between time and group over a period of eight months (from pre-test to follow-up), indicating positive effects on these self-concept dimensions due to the teacher training.

Conclusion: The present study indicates that a long-term teacher training supports PE teachers to implement teaching styles with the aim to promote students’ self-concept. Furthermore, the findings lead to the assumption that a more pronounced iTFR in combination with an enhanced reflexive teaching style has the potential to positively influence schoolchildren’s perceived sports competence and global self-esteem.  相似文献   

Responses to oral glucose challenge differ by physical activity volume and intensity: A pilot study     

Trevor N. Simper  Cecile Morris  Anthony Lynn  Ciara O'Hagan  Karen Kilner 《运动与健康科学(英文)》2020,9(6):645-650

BackgroundOne-hour postprandial hyperglycemia is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity (PA) has short-term beneficial effects on post-meal glucose response. This study compared the oral glucose tolerance test results of 3 groups of people with habitually different levels of PA.MethodsThirty-one adults without diabetes (age 25.9 ± 6.6 years; body mass index 23.8 ± 3.8 kg/m²; mean ± SD) were recruited and divided into 3 groups based on self-reported PA volume and intensity: low activity < 30 min/day of moderate-intensity activity (n = 11), moderately active ≥ 30 min/day of moderate-intensity PA (n = 10), and very active ≥ 60 min/day of PA at high intensity (n = 10). Participants completed an oral glucose tolerance test (50 g glucose) with capillary blood samples obtained at baseline, 15 min, 30 min, 45 min, 60 min, 90 min, and 120 min post-ingestion.ResultsThere were no significant differences between groups for age or body fat percentage or glycated hemoglobin (p > 0.05). The groups were significantly different in terms of baseline glucose level (p = 0.003) and, marginally, for gender (p = 0.053) and BMI (p = 0.050). There was a statistically significant effect of PA on the 1-h postprandial glucose results (p = 0.029), with differences between very active and low activity groups (p = 0.008) but not between the moderately active and low activity groups (p = 0.360), even when baseline glucose level and gender differences were accounted for. For incremental area under the curve there was no significant effect of activity group once gender and body fat percentage had been accounted for (p = 0.401). Those in the low activity group took 15 min longer to reach peak glucose level than those in the very active group (p = 0.012).ConclusionThe results suggest that high levels of PA have a beneficial effect on postprandial blood glucose profiles when compared to low and moderate levels of activity.  相似文献   

中美竞技体育国际竞争力比较研究     

朱玉霞 《河北体育学院学报》2020,34(1):37-42

运用双框架模型对中美竞技体育国际竞争力进行比较研究。认为:①从显现性框架分析,美国竞技体育国际竞争力一直稳定处于高位,而中国则呈现以2008年为峰顶的倒“U”型发展特征,且与美国还存在一定差距;②从解释性框架分析,美国竞技体育国际竞争力已趋于顶峰,而中国稳步提升;③中国竞技体育发展潜力巨大,但短时间内难以赶超美国;④“举国体制”有利于中国竞技体育显现性竞争力的提升,但与美国社会办竞技体育的发展模式相比,市场、社会在竞技体育发展中的作用发挥不足,不利于高经济性项目、高欣赏性项目的发展;⑤坚持“举国体制”、承办2022年冬奥会有利于中国竞技体育显现性竞争力的提升和冬季项目的发展,但同样存在竞技体育项目布局转型的困难和群众体育基础薄弱的困境。  相似文献   

区域性国际体育组织及“一带一路”沿线国家和地区体育组织构建     

马家鑫  王子朴 《中国体育科技》2020,(6):83-90

区域性国际体育组织以其多样性和复杂性的存在,成为了国际体育活动乃至社会经济文化活动中的重要组成部分。结合区域性国际体育组织的发展历史经验和启示,对比归纳出影响此类体育组织发展的8方面因素,以此衡量构建"一带一路"沿线国家和地区体育组织的利弊条件。"一带一路"沿线国家和地区体育组织联盟的构想已具备现实基础,需要消除意识形态壁垒,打造以"一带一路"倡议为纽带的体育联盟,以由局部到整体的模式构建起"一带一路"沿线国家和地区体育组织。  相似文献   

第三帝国时期的德国体育及其语言     

郑峻 《体育科技文献通报》2020,(1):54-54,76

纳粹统治时期种族主义盛行,体育运动也未能自外其中,沦为国家政治的工具。而体育术语本土化的规范,似是黑暗政治中的一道学术微光。本文采用文献分析法,以1936年柏林奥运会及《奥林匹克手册》为例,对该时期的德国体育战略及体育语言工作进行分析。  相似文献   

Social support and cultural distance: Sojourners’ experience in China     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2021

Previous research has pinpointed that social support from host, co-national, and other international friends plays a pivotal role in successful adaptation to a new culture, yet research on this topic pertaining to China is inadequate. As such, using a cross-sectional sample of sojourners (N = 199) in major Chinese cities, the current study examines the relationship between sojourners’ self-reports of social support from the three sources and two psychological adaptation variables (i.e., anxiety and well-being) as well as the moderating effect of objective cultural distance. Regression analysis indicates that perceptions of host and international support are significant negative predictors of anxiety and positive predictors of psychological well-being. In addition, cultural distance moderated these predictive associations: host support and international support had a stronger negative association with anxiety and host support had a stronger positive association with well-being for participants whose cultural distance to China was lower compared to those whose cultural distance was higher. This study enhances our understanding of the dynamic interplay between social support and cultural distance in cross-cultural adaptation research within a Chinese cultural context.  相似文献   

Assessing Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use of Institutional Repositories by Lecturers in Nigerian Universities     

Alice A. Bamigbola  Airen E. Adetimirin 《International Information and Library Review》2020,52(2):95-107

Abstract

Institutional repositories (IRs) present platform to disseminate research findings to complement the traditional scholarly communication model. The use of IRs is beneficial to authors, host institutions, libraries and society at large. Despite the numerous benefits of IRs, there is low deposit of scholarly works by lecturers and the investment on IRs seems to be a waste. This study examined determinants of perceived ease of use (PEOU) of IRs by lecturers in Nigerian universities. A survey of lecturers received 857 respondents. Awareness, anchor and adjustment factors were found to be determinants of PEOU of Institutional repositories by lecturers in Nigerian Universities.  相似文献   

区域体育产业发展与健康中国建设耦合协调度研究——以我国东部地区11个省市为例     

叶宋忠 《武汉体育学院学报》2020,54(5):31-40

为探讨区域体育产业发展与健康中国建设耦合协调度及未来前景,在分析体育产业与健康中国耦合作用机理的基础上,构建体育产业与健康中国耦合协调发展评价体系,运用熵值法、耦合协调模型和修正GM(1.1)预测法对我国东部地区11省市2013—2017年两大系统耦合协调关系进行实证分析,并预测未来10年两大系统的耦合协调关系。研究发现(1)区域体育产业发展与健康中国建设之间存在明显的相互影响、相互作用关系,耦合协调发展特征显著。(2)东部地区11省市两大系统发展水平总体呈上升态势,且二者具有较高的关联性;体育产业系统发展水平比健康中国系统波动性更强,体育产业成为缩小区域发展差异的有效路径依赖;体育产业发展对健康中国建设的驱动作用较弱,而健康中国建设对体育产业发展促进作用较大。(3)东部地区11省市两大系统耦合协调性在逐年稳步上升,但演进与提升速度较缓慢,协调关系始终处在勉强协调阶段,且耦合协调度存在较大的空间差异,从北向南的空间格局大体上呈现“高—较高—高—较高—高—低”,预测结果显示未来10年耦合协调水平演进与提升速度明显加快,但仍存在显著的空间差异。并提出建议,以期服务实践。  相似文献   

Problems and Perspectives of a Theory of Transformational Processes of Bildung     

Hans-Christoph Koller 《Educational theory》2020,70(5):633-651

In this essay, Hans-Christoph Koller presents a concept of transformational processes of Bildung in an attempt to redefine the German notion of Bildung referring to actual social conditions of educational processes. According to this conception, Bildung is a transformation of world- and self-relations that can come about when subjects are confronted with problems for which they have no established routines of engagement. With reference to theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Bernhard Waldenfels, and Ulrich Oevermann, Koller looks for answers to three questions: (1) Which concepts and theories are able to adequately grasp the world- and self-relations of subjects going through processes of Bildung? (2) How can the problems that trigger processes of Bildung and that challenge subjects to transform be determined more precisely? (3) How exactly does the emergence of new figures of world- and self-relations take place when we “successfully” complete a process of Bildung? Finally, the essay concludes with an attempt to clarify the normative implications of this theory.  相似文献   

“一带一路”战略下广西-东盟武术文化场域建设的思考     

唐露铭 《中华武术(研究)》2020,(2):97-98,103

为进一步促进武术通过广西向东南亚的发展,本文基于布迪厄“场域理论”,提出建设中国武术文化场域,提升中国武术的符号价值。在充分认识和理解东盟各国的文化、历史、宗教信仰以及本土武术文化基础之上,通过加强武术词汇翻译,提升武术传播者的东盟语言能力;充分利用“儒家文化圈”文化共通之处,发挥中国武术文化内涵之用;激发武术文化场域各要素间的有机配合,推进官方及民间武术传播的“走出去”。  相似文献