Thomas Wandzilak

Values development through physical education and athletics.

The development of values through physical activity has been a longstanding objective of physical educators and coaches. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about values education through physical activity. This paper discusses the problems educators have encountered in values development in a sports setting and presents a model through which a more productive approach to teaching can be taken. The model suggests that educators must make a stronger commitment to values education by being better role models and that they actually teach toward learning through the affective domain. It also utilizes a structural-developmental approach from Kohlbergs concept of moral reasoning as its base.

Physical Education: A Professional Field.

Considerable effort has been expended toward the development of a discipline of physical education. The nature of physical education, however, reveals that it is more likely a professional field than a discipline. What is required is a means to draw from the several contributing disciplines and subdisciplines information needed to improve the practice of physical education. A model is described which centers on “disciplined study in physical education” in which the integration and synthesis work necessary to produce a theorypractice link is undertaken.

Teaching Values Through The Athletic Experience

Values education should be an essential part of the athletic expe rience, say these writers, who have developed a model for ac complishing that end. Key to that model is teaching in the affective domain.

Oriented to Learning Making Interscholastic Athletics a Winner

There are, say these writers, four principles that are crucial to the success of an educational athletic program. Those principles, and suggestions for implementing them, are outlined here.