TITLE:
Teaching Physical Education and Sports during Covid-19: A Community Case
AUTHORS:
Souleymane Diallo
KEYWORDS:
Physical and Sports Education, College, Covid-19, Community Cases, Physical Distancing, Barrier Measures
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
18,
2022
ABSTRACT: Teaching
skills depend to a large extent on their “didactization” characterized, in the
case of physical and sports education, erected in law and compulsory at school,
by a body practice often favoring contacts in extramural. In the context of the
Covid-19 pandemic marked by the cessation then the resumption of classes,
physical distancing injunctions and the use of detergent products, masks, etc.
it seems logical to question the positions of the actors, the feasibility of
the Physical Education and Sports (P.E.S.) and the controversies generated by
community particularly in the colleges of the Pikine-Guédiawaye Academy
Inspectorate and apprehended thanks to mixed methods. In fact, we used
participant observation, semi-structured interviews with administrative,
pedagogical and community actors and the questionnaire survey addressed to a
sample of 115 students drawn according to the quota technique. The objective
was to understand the contradictions of the actors concerned. They were
manifested by the practice of physical and sports activities at the beach
instead of the forbidden Physical Education and Sports (P.E.S.) like all other
school subjects, by the exclusion and then the reintegration of the subject
with controversies relating to interests different from the administrative and
PEPS, by the difficult acceptance of health measures and physical distancing
variously manifested, by the question of the adaptation of P.E.S. to the
realities of the numbers and spaces leading to lessons at several speeds, by the
demotivation of middle school students who no longer experience hedonism in the
field and finally by the diversity of the objectives of the authorities who
want to save the year, teachers defending their discipline, students deprived
of their agitation moments and parents skeptical and fearful of these moments
who can expose their children to the disease.