A Manual of Physical and Heath Education for the Rural Schools of Oregon
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Date
1936-07
Authors
Quinn, Ernest Robert
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
The purpose of this Manual of Physical and Health Education for the Rural Schools of Oregon is to lay before the rural teachers and their school boards suggestions on organization and instruction in physical and health education in their schools. Those teachers whose training in the field of physical education has been limited will find in this manual, in convenient form for their guidance, valuable helps, suggestions and directions. Those teachers who have had adequate training in the field of physical education will find here supplementary material for their program of activities.
A manual of physical education for the elementary schools or Oregon prepared by the State Department of Public Instruction is now available, but like most other state manuals it has given more attention to the larger problem of the elementary schools as a whole in the state without giving special consideration to the many perplexing problems of the one-room rural teacher. According to the latest figures available from the State Department of Public Instruction, there are in Oregon approximately 1150 rural one-room elementary schools with an enrollment of 19,700 pupils.
Special consideration is given throughout this manual to the many duties of the rural teacher and the already crowded curriculum. It is not the purpose to place additional burden upon the teacher, or to ask for more time than is already allotted to physical education, but to place in her hands the materials and methods which will enable her to utilize the time devoted to this part of the school program in a more efficient manner. Thus we hope that physical and health education will be better able to play their significant part in helping the child to develop to the maximum degree his capacity to function successfully in the environment in which he lives.
Description
177 pages
Keywords
rural Oregon schools, elementary education, physical and health education, physical education legislation, one-room schools