Views of Physical Education Teachers on Distance Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic Period: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to examine the opinions of physical education teachers about the remote (online) education of schools due to the Covid-19 epidemic in our country and in the world in recent years, and the remote teaching of physical education lessons in this process. Within the scope of this study, it was tried to determine the opinions of physical education teachers about the distance education process, the problems they encountered, the efficiency and adequacy of the lessons, the advantages and disadvantages of the process. The study was designed using a qualitative research method, and the study group was determined using the stratified sampling method. Study data were collected by the researcher by interview method. The analysis of the data was carried out using the content analysis method. According to the findings of the research, in the evaluations of the participants; It has been observed that the majority of them define distance education as virtual education, the majority of them express that it is important and necessary to teach physical education lessons in distance education, the biggest advantage in the process of teaching the lessons is the lack of time and space limit, and the disadvantage is that distance education cannot provide the same equality of opportunity for every student. At the end of the study, suggestions were given to make physical education lessons more efficient in the distance education process.

Teachers’ Perception During Pandemic Times: Challenges, Opportunities and Changes

“…Thematic categorization Nilsberth et al, 2021;Seabre et al, 2021;Trust and Whalen, 2021;Alakrash and Razak, 2021;Code, Ralph and Forde, 2022;DeCoito and Estaiteyeh, 2022;Ibrahim et al, 2022;Shamir-Inbal and Blau, 2021;Toquero, 2021;Panesi et al, 2021;Schuck and Lambert, 2020;Cooper, Timmons and MacGregor, 2021;Woltran et al, 2021 Content analysis Alghamdi and Al-Ghamdi , 2021;Batac et al, 2021;Kaya, 2021;Denardi et al, 2021 Statistical analysis Berdgahl andNouri, 2020;Giovanella et al, 2020;Kamal and Illyian, 2021 Collaborative data analysis Source: Elaborated for this study, 2022.…”

“…Of the selected articles, the researchers come from sixteen different countries (Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, USA, Slovakia, Philippines, Italy, Israel, Canada, Brunei, Brazil, India, South Africa, Turkey, Austria and Malaysia), and four different continents -which is relevant, as the pandemic did not impact all countries in the same way, considering geographic, cultural, political and economic differences, as well as the different views of these countries' governments on the pandemic. It is worth mentioning that six studies focus on the teaching of specific subjects, which are Physical Education (Kaya, 2021;Centeio et al, 2021), English as a second language (Ludovico et al, 2021;Denardi et al, 2021), STEM (DeCoito and Estaiteyeh, 2022) and technical subjects (Code, Ralph and Forde, 2022), and two others focus on the teaching of students with Special Educational Needs (Toquero, 2021;Schuck and Lambert, 2020;). There is also one study whose objective was to investigate the case of Natural-Science teachers of Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Learners (LDHH) (Adigun, 2022).…”

“…Cooper, Timmons and MacGregor (2021) aimed to identify the impacts of ERT in Ontario, as well as the factors which contributed to challenges and success of teachers and students. Finally, both Kaya (2021) and Centeio et al (2021) sought to analyze the views and perceptions of physical education teachers on distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic and explore their needs during this time.…”

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“…Pendidikan formal tentu saja dapat dibuktikan dengan ijazah sedangkan uji kelayakan dan kesetaraan diperoleh melalui serifikasi. Adapun Kualifikasi terdiri atas latar belakang pendidikan, usia dan pengalaman mengajar (Kaya, 2021).…”