PedActa (Dec 2017)
Physical Education Teachers’ Views of Best Practice on Physical Education Teaching in Hungary in the Period of Introducing Daily Physical Education
Abstract
In Hungary, the Act CXC of 2011 on Public Education has drawn squarely. In primary and secondary schools five physical education classes per week were ordained compulsory in ascending system. Our questioning was oriented on identifying the factors of the best practice. In our cross-sectional study we have chosen stratified sampling. The number of the examined persons is 1,161. From the total number, 542 participants answered the open ended questions related to the best practice. These answers’ analysis gave the core material of this research. Data was acquired during the 2013/2014 school year. The instrument of our cross-sectional study was a questionnaire built by six question-groups. Answers, given to the question of best practice, have been interpreted as narratives, which were formed in definable context. According to the results of our research, we have specified the three most important factors determining supremely the best practice of physical education (School infrastructure, facilities and equipment, Space and location and its spaciousness, sports events and activities involving the whole school); statistic figures have proved the coherence and consciousness of the answers. Our research lightened those details of physical education that might play important role in the future methodological expansions and also in regulative decisions.
