International Journal of Physical Education, Fitness and Sports
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Connecting Theory to Practice – Effective Ways of Teaching Motor Learning Course for Undergraduate Physical Education Students
Full text linkMotor learning is an important subject and is a required course for undergraduate students who major in health and physical education according to NASPE standards two. The objective of motor learning courses at the undergraduate level is to prepare our students to be competent to teach motor skills in the future. However, teaching the motor learning course effectively at this level is truly challenging due to the abstractness of the motor learning theories which are largely based on laboratory experiments. Many times students? motivation of learning could be compromised due to a potential disconnect between theory and practice of motor learning course in general. Thus, the purpose of this paper is two-fold: (a) to illustrate the obstacles of teaching motor learning courses, and (b) to introduce the effective ways of connecting theory to practice for teaching motor learning at the undergraduate level
Relationship of Attitude with Socio-Economic Status
Full text linkEvery sportsperson has its own unique attitude that he learnt from family, schooldays, experiences and shows by his behavior when he reacts to certain events in his surroundings. As India is a developing country with more unemployment, tough completion and fewer facilities, it is obligatory to control and develop a right kind of attitude among players so that they think positively and explore the opportunities optimistically to shun depressions and unsocial habits. Thus it is necessary to study the attitude and certain variables in the society, the relationship of these variables in context with socio-economic status of sportsman. Attitude as suggested by the experts has six sub variables: Social Change, Social Distance, Liberalism, Nationalism, Social Revolutionism and Untouchability, out of which this paper concentrates on Social Change, Social Distance and Liberalism, their relationship with the socio-economic status of judokas