Sport Management Journal

A Study of the Amount of Attention to Sport and Olympic Education in Textbooks of Primary Schools

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

karim zohrevandian 1
Seyyed Nasrollah sajjadi 2
Esfanyar Khosravizadeh 3
fereshteh ebrahimi 4

1 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran

2 Professor of Sport Management, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran

4 MSc of Sport Management, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2018.25316.
Abstract
This study aimed at having a content analysis of textbooks in primary schools in order to assess attention to sport and Olympic education in these books. The statistical population included all textbooks of primary schools (N=36) in 5 grades and 4328 pages. This study was descriptive that used content analysis method. These books were analyzed page by page and word by word and determined variables were recorded in a researcher-prepared checklist. Excel software was used for charting. After data analysis, the results showed that sport was observed in all grades but not in a continuous and targeted way. In the fourth grade, sport received the most attention. But for Olympic education, no attention had been paid to the Olympics and its philosophy in first, second, third and fifth grades. Olympics and its principles were referred to in a pictorial or written form only in the fourth grade. Among all the books, Farsi book had the most references to sport and the Olympics.

Keywords

Olympic education
primary school
Sport
textbooks
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 10, Issue 1
Spring 2018
Pages 65-84

  • Receive Date 08 May 2013
  • Revise Date 26 June 2018
  • Accept Date 04 January 2016

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