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Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge 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.Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge 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.Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge A Manual of Physical and Heath Education for the Rural Schools of Oregon(University of Oregon, 1936-07) Quinn, Ernest RobertThe 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.Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge An Historical and Sociopsychological Analysis of the Running Tradition in Eugene, Oregon(University of Oregon, 1978-03) Tricker, RaymondThe study was designed to analyze the historical significance of the University of Oregon upon the development of a running tradition in Eugene, Oregon and to measure the attitudes of male and female competitive and non-competitive runners using the Gerald S. Kenyon Attitude Toward Physical Activity Scale. The results of the attitude inventory were analyzed using a three way analysis of variance with repeated measures. The historical analysis related Smolicz's humanistic perspectives of tradition to the leadership contributions of significant public figures, coaches, and track and field athletes. From the results of the study it was concluded that: 1. The University of Oregon has made a significant contribution toward the development of a running tradition in Eugene. 2. There were no significant differences between the Male and Female and Competitive and Non-Competitive groups of runners in their attitude toward physical activity as measured by the Kenyon Scale.