Student interest in activities in a secondary physical education curiculum: an analysis of student subjectivity
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ABSTRACT:
Situational interest is defined as a student's perception of interest inherent in an activity. Holding interest is conceptualized as a specific situational interest perceived by a student based on his or her subjective understanding of the activity's meaningfulness. It motivates the student to coninuously participate in that activity. This research was designed to examine the patterns of holding interest for physical activities in a state physical education curriculum for secondary schools. A group of college students (N = 35) who completed their entire secondary education in the state was invited to construct their perceptions of interest in the activities selected from their secondary physical education curriculum. Q methodology was used to determine and analyze patterns of the interest. Four patterns of holding interest were determined: fitness, socialization, activity variation, and self-expression. Specific activites associated with each pattern were identifed, and relationships among the four patterns were described. Findings (a) support the notion that holding interest is based on students' subjective understanding and valuing of the unique meanings in physial activities and (b) suggest that holding interest in person- and activity-specific, implying that physical educators should focus on student-activity matching when making curricular decisons.
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