Physical Education Theses and Dissertations

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    A Study of Physical Education Curriculum for Boys in the A-1 Senior High Schools in the State of Oregon
    (University of Oregon, 1955-06) Adams, Frederick C.
    As a secondary teacher in the state of Oregon, the writer had an opportunity to observe various secondary public school physical education programs in operation. This observation cover a period of five years, and during this period a number of variations in the physical education programs of the secondary schools were observed. Such variances posed the problem as to the adequacy and type of curricular offerings established to meet the intent of the existing laws governing the teaching of health and physical education in Oregon. From the standpoint of supervision, the State Department of Education was interested in knowing the status of curricular offerings provided to meet the growth and development needs of high school students. The Oregon Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation was vitally concerned with the quality of instruction in this field. For this reason, such factual information as might be provided by this study was not important. Such factual information placed in the hands of interested groups can be used for making intelligent curriculum and program decisions. This study had a potential of national interest because of its relation to a study conducted by a national committee under the chairmanship of K.W. Bookwalter, Professor of Physical Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This committee was making a national study of secondary school physical education programs.
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    A Survey of Community Recreation in Gresham, Oregon
    (University of Oregon, 1952-06) Adams, Frederick C.
    Leisure time for most people has increased tremendously in recent years. The whole economy of our life today has meant fewer hours at work and more leisure for all who toil. What is being done with this leisure time? We have been so busy increasing our technological efficiency that we, as people, do not know how to employ leisure time profitably. Not knowing how to play, we have substituted commercial amusement and entertainment for self-expression in recreational activities. Recreation authorities emphasize the idea that mere entertainment, while it has its place, cannot alone solve the problem of what to do during leisure. We must not spend all our leisure time being entertained. Real satisfaction and complete happiness come from doing, not watching. People need to do for themselves rather than having everything done for them, as is the case when they are merely spectators. Until a person has done something himself, with his head and hands, for the sheer love of doing, he has missed one of the most valuable experiences in life. To create and build is life, and this means self-expression.