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The ICSSPE/IOC World-wide Survey on the state and
status of physical education in schools (Hardman & Marshall, 2000)
exposed a decline and/or marginalisation of this essential school curriculum
subject in many countries of the world. Deficiencies were apparent in:
curriculum time allocation, subject status, material, human and financial
resources, gender and disability issues and the quality of programme delivery.
These findings were reinforced in a subsequent Council of Europe Survey
administered in member states and reflected in Conclusions (adopted
as Recommendations by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers
on 30 April 2003) at the Informal Meeting of Ministers responsible for
Sport in Warsaw, Poland 12-13 September 2002. The ministerial Conclusions
acknowledged a serious decline in the quality and the time allocated for
teaching physical education and sport for children and young people in
schools as well as inadequate opportunities to participate in recreational
sport out of school.
It is imperative that monitoring of developments
in physical education across the world be maintained. The Council of Europe's
ministerial Conclusions and Recommendations, the UNESCO `Round Table'
Communiqué and the WHO Global Strategy have called for
monitoring systems to be put into place to regularly review the situation
of physical education in each country. Indeed, the Council of Europe referred
to the introduction of provision for a pan-European survey on physical
education policies and practices every five years as a priority!
Thus, a follow-up survey to the World-wide Survey on the State and
Status of
School Physical Education is being undertaken by Ken Hardman and Joe
Marshall on behalf of North Western Counties Physical Education Association
(NWCPEA)in the UK with the support of University College Worcester,
Liverpool Hope University and from the Council of Europe CDDS Unit,
and
approval of ICSSPE, UNESCO and WHO.
This follow-up survey intends to reveal whether the situation in school
physical education/sport has changed since the Berlin Physical Education
Summit of 1999. Specifically, the survey focuses on the following items.
Underpinning the survey will be a review of associated
recent literature.
Data evaluation will assist in the delineation of the nature of the
present
situation of, and related issues in, physical education/sport in schools.
It
is intended to disseminate the findings at the Second World Summit on
Physical Education, scheduled to take place in Magglingen, Switzerland
in
December 2005 and in a published Report.
Anyone requiring more information about the purposes of the research
as well
as information on the situation of school physical education/sport in
international dimension can visit the designated web-page on the University
College Worcester web-site, accessed at:
http://www.worc.ac.uk/worldpesurvey Please note the site also includes an electronic version of the survey
questionnaire (in English), which can be completed on-line and returned
over
the “net”. It is also possible that an e-mailed version
(in English or
French) can be sent on request to anyone wishing to participate in the
Survey. For the e-mail version please contact Ken Hardman at either: ken.hardman@tiscali.co.uk or k.hardman@worc.ac.uk
Dr Ken Hardman
Executive Board Member International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES) Manchester, UK Email: ken.hardman@tiscali.co.uk ![]() http://www.icsspe.org/portal/bulletin-may2005.htm |