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Do We Need a New Concept of School
Physical Education?
Goran Šekeljić
University of Kragujevac
sekeljicgoran@gmail.com
Jovan Marković
University of Kragujevac
jovan.markovic@gmail.com
Numerous studies conducted in Serbia in the last half century point to the inef-
fectiveness and the problem of marginalization of school physical education.
The aim of the study was to investigate the level of basic motor skills in volley-
ball, basketball, and gymnastics among second-year students of both genders
at the Faculty of Education in Užice. In the period from 2015 to 2022, 7 gener-
ations of students were tested. The results of the study showed that female
students have significantly worse motor skills than male students. About 35
of female students did not even meet the minimum educational requirements,
and 10 of them did not even try to solve motor tasks. The results of this and
many other studies pointing to problems in teaching are such that one can
reasonably ask the question, do we need a new approach to school physical
education? Does physical education meet the specific aptitudes and needs of
students? Does the content of teaching correspond to the interests of young
people, and is it in line with their contemporary culture and social trends?
Keywords: physical education, effects, teaching, quality
Introduction
A large number of researches (Arunović 1990; Bokan, Radojević and Radis-
avljević 1990; Martinović 2003; Šekeljić, Marinković, and Stamatović 2013;
Šekeljić and Stamatović 2013) carried out in Serbia over the last half cen-
tury indicate the ineffectiveness of physical education teaching. The inef-
fectiveness is of such proportions that students of both genders, neither af-
ter finishing primary school (Martinović 2003), nor after finishing secondary
school (Šekeljić and Stamatović 2013), possess the motor skills that, accord-
ing to educational standards, they should have learned by the sixth grade.
It is an increasingly pronounced phenomenon that female students after
secondary school have worse motor skills and motor abilities than they had
during primary school (Šekeljić, Marinković, and Stamatović 2013). The prob-
Istenič, A., M. Gačnik, B. Horvat, M. Kukanja Gabrijelčič, V. R. Kiswarday, M. Lebeničnik, M. Mezgec in M. Volk, ur.
2023. Vzgoja in izobraževanje med preteklostjo in prihodnostjo. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem.
https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-255-8.365-377
Physical Education?
Goran Šekeljić
University of Kragujevac
sekeljicgoran@gmail.com
Jovan Marković
University of Kragujevac
jovan.markovic@gmail.com
Numerous studies conducted in Serbia in the last half century point to the inef-
fectiveness and the problem of marginalization of school physical education.
The aim of the study was to investigate the level of basic motor skills in volley-
ball, basketball, and gymnastics among second-year students of both genders
at the Faculty of Education in Užice. In the period from 2015 to 2022, 7 gener-
ations of students were tested. The results of the study showed that female
students have significantly worse motor skills than male students. About 35
of female students did not even meet the minimum educational requirements,
and 10 of them did not even try to solve motor tasks. The results of this and
many other studies pointing to problems in teaching are such that one can
reasonably ask the question, do we need a new approach to school physical
education? Does physical education meet the specific aptitudes and needs of
students? Does the content of teaching correspond to the interests of young
people, and is it in line with their contemporary culture and social trends?
Keywords: physical education, effects, teaching, quality
Introduction
A large number of researches (Arunović 1990; Bokan, Radojević and Radis-
avljević 1990; Martinović 2003; Šekeljić, Marinković, and Stamatović 2013;
Šekeljić and Stamatović 2013) carried out in Serbia over the last half cen-
tury indicate the ineffectiveness of physical education teaching. The inef-
fectiveness is of such proportions that students of both genders, neither af-
ter finishing primary school (Martinović 2003), nor after finishing secondary
school (Šekeljić and Stamatović 2013), possess the motor skills that, accord-
ing to educational standards, they should have learned by the sixth grade.
It is an increasingly pronounced phenomenon that female students after
secondary school have worse motor skills and motor abilities than they had
during primary school (Šekeljić, Marinković, and Stamatović 2013). The prob-
Istenič, A., M. Gačnik, B. Horvat, M. Kukanja Gabrijelčič, V. R. Kiswarday, M. Lebeničnik, M. Mezgec in M. Volk, ur.
2023. Vzgoja in izobraževanje med preteklostjo in prihodnostjo. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem.
https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-255-8.365-377
