Preconditions of Young Learners’ Humanistic Education during Physical Education Lessons

Rolandas Jančiauskas

doi:10.33607/bjshs.v2i81.326

Abstract

Research background and hypothesis. Favourable conditions for children’s humanistic education will occur after the implementation of the programme of junior schoolchildren’s humanistic education in physical education lessons.Research aim was to analyze the background for junior schoolchildren’s humanistic education theoretically and to determine the tendencies of changes in the relationship between schoolchildren and teachers in physical education lessons.Research methods. Literature review and questionnaire survey.Research results. After the implementation of humanistic education program for junior schoolchildren in physical education lessons, their behavior became more humanistic, their relationship with classmates and teachers improved. Our ﬁ ndings coincided with those of the other authors. Junior schoolchildren’s relationship particularly lack sensitivity. The ﬁ ndings of Group E have shown that children of that age group can already understand moral concepts and base their behavior on them. The experimental program had an effect not only on the behavior of children in Group E, but also on their teachers’ behavior, which became more humanistic.Discussion and conclusions. Junior schoolchildren’s education in a humanistic, safe and functional environment which fosters sincere relationship changed the relationship between pupils and teachers, so it can be assumed that the experimental program has proved to be successful in pedagogical practice. The study shows the changes of behavior of Group E teachers who participated in the educational experiment.Keywords: humanistic education, physical education lesson, relationship among junior schoolchildren.

Highlights

All the world feels the recession of values, it is necessary to develop children’s humanism from the moment they start school
Group C children were educated during Physical Education lessons only according to General Programmes and Educational Standarts of Lithuania’s General School (2003).The research used a random sample, but both Group E and C were homogeneous: children from Group E and children from Group C participated in the first research of the educational experiment, relatively 80 children from Group E and 80 children from Group C – in the second research
As many as 22.5% of children from Group E and 3.6% from Group C always consoled their classmates during Physical Education lessons when they failed to perform a task or activity, which means that the children in Group E became more considerate towards their classmates in a year as they consoled their classmates more often than the children from Group C

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Introduction

All the world feels the recession of values, it is necessary to develop children’s humanism from the moment they start school. Gumuliauskienė (2001), the most important age for developing person’s humanistic values is young school age, as it is the period of intensive development of child’s personality, their self-awareness, and relations with themselves and the world (PileckaitėMarkovienė, 2005). D. Augienė (2002) points out that social knowledge at this age is related to the understanding of friendship and the development of the contemplations of ethics; a more purposeful ambition for self-help – situational self-control and correction of one’s behaviour – is noticed. Today’s school faces the requirement to organise the educational process by creating humanistic relationship based on humanistic values; the main purpose of the education of a young generation is, according to V. Today’s school faces the requirement to organise the educational process by creating humanistic relationship based on humanistic values; the main purpose of the education of a young generation is, according to V. Rajeckas (2001), the development

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