The Study of Influences on Somatic Fitness through Somatic Movement Education for Forth Grade Elementary School Students

• Main Authors: SU-KUO-CHENG, 蘇國正
• Other Authors: Lin-Dah-Feng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n8h2qx

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 體育教學碩士在職專班 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the improvement of the students’ somatic fitness after the somatic movement course, and to analyze their acceptances and learning reactions of this course. There were totally 55 fourth-grade students in researcher’s classes selected and divided into the experimental and control group. The former was engaged with the somatic movement course, which was 40-minutes-a-time, twice-a-week, and ten-week long. The latter, however, took the normal physical education course. All students had tests before and after the courses. Test items included flexibility (sit-and-reach), muscular endurance (60-seconds sit-ups), cardiorespiratory endurance (800m running), and coordination (distance of handball throwing). BAAI (Body Awareness Ability Inventory) was taken a week after the end of both courses, and then analyzed by using the t-test and one-way ANCOVA. The data with α greater than .05 was treated as the obvious result. Conclusions were listed below: 1. There were no evident differences in flexibility, strength, and muscular endurance between groups. However, the experimental group had a better result in cardiorespiratory endurance, while the control group performed better in coordination. It showed that the somatic movement education greatly increased the cardiorespiratory endurance. 2. The body awareness ability differed significantly between groups. The somatic movement course enhanced students’ perceptive abilities such as body control, unusual condition reaction, smoothness of breathing, muscle strength, and body usage. 3. Students prefered to the props-aided, self-expression activities and activities involving interactions with others. And nearly 80 percent of students learned well in the somatic movement course, however it was difficult for students to understand the explanation on human body and seldom used movements.