Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.020102.boisestate
Niu Jianzhuang, N. Zhen, R. Xiangyu, Yue Xuemei, Gao Nina, Shao Nina, Zhang Chengyi
With the increase of aging population, accompanied by a series of aging problems, the study showed that the probability of chronic disease in the elderly population is 92.1%, and further research shows that the probability of having two or more chronic diseases is 70.0%. Therefore, understanding of the distribution and spatial-temporal variation trend of risk factors related to chronic diseases can provide scientific basis for the formulation of policies and intervention strategies for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. It is of urgent practical significance to improve the quality of life of the elderly and reduce the social medical burden. Analysis of the data indicated that after 1 year of continuous exercise intervention, the experimental group’s blood pressure was controlled at a normal level in nearly 2 months [90 ~ 140mmHg/100 ~ 160mmHg(SBP/DBP)]. The results showed that moderate physical activity can reduce stress and help control blood pressure in patients with high blood pressure. After 1 year of targeted exercise intervention, the experimental group significantly improved fasting blood glucose (controlled under 7.2mmol/liter) in nearly 2 months after the second questionnaire survey. After the exercise, the blood glucose was controlled within the normal range and gradually increased. After one year of exercise intervention, the blood lipid index of the experimental group was significantly different from that of the control group, indicating that physical exercise has a positive effect on the elderly with hyperlipemia.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.020114.boisestate
Jiale Peng, Hong Ren
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by repeated episodes of apnea and hypopnea during sleep. Snoring and daytime sleepiness are the most common manifestations of OSA. Patients with OSA are considered to have poor cardiopulmonary function. Exercise has been proposed as a treatment for OSA that could lower apnea hypopnea indices (AHI) and improve sleep quality. Study shows that constantly aerobic exercise improved cardiopulmonary function in patients with chronic heart failure. However, whether exercise training will benefit cardiopulmonary functioning in patients with OSA is still in doubt. The purpose of this review is to investigate the effect of exercise on cardiopulmonary functioning in adults with OSA by summarizing the results of clinical trials. A systematic review of the PubMed, Web of science, Wan Fang and CNKI databases was conducted for randomized controlled trials (up to October, 2021; language in English or Chinese) comparing exercise treatments to no exercise treatments for patients with OSA. Focused outcomes included AHI, VO2peak, mean oxygen saturations (SaO2mean%), lowest oxygen saturations (SaO2min%), sleep quality (PSQI scale), and quality of life (ESS scale). Pooled data were assessed by using random-effects. This study adhered to the PRISMA guidelines. Of 262 identified studies, 12 were eligible and included in final analysis (N = 530 adult participants). Compared to no exercise treatment, exercise yielded an improved mean reduction in AHI of 6.69 [95%CI: -8.50 to -4.87], an improved mean increases in VO2peak of 0.98 [95%CI: 0.39, 1.57], besides, PSQI and ESS scores decreased by 2.1 [95%CI: -3.95 to 0.24] and 6.69 [95%CI: -8.50 to 4.87], respectively. Although SaO2min% and SaO2mean% were improved by exercise, the improvement was clinically small. Exercise can improve multiple aspects of functioning in patients with OSA, including AHI, sleep quality, quality of life, and cardiopulmonary functions. Exercise is thus recommended as a potential therapeutic strategy to improve conditions of patients with OSA.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.18.boisestate
Yuchen Huang
This study analyzed the performance of gender differences in value orientation of physical education teachers in junior and senior high schools. Researcher selected 16 middle school PE teachers(8 males and 8 females) in China under the premise of controlling the environment(all objects work in first-tier urbans), education background (same degree and graduated from same university) and working years(3 years). Participants’ value orientation was assessed with the value orientation scale and individual interviews. The results illustrated that female teachers rated the self-actualization index and social responsibility index the highest, while male counterparts were more likely to orient teaching towards disciplinary mastery and learning process. Interview data further confirmed the assertion. Compared to females, male teachers were more masculine- and authoritative- oriented, more likely to be dominant in terms of skill acquisition and sports development based on students’ interests. However, female teachers were better at carry out teaching through praise, encouragement and patient communication. A systematic analysis of the gender difference in value orientation and underneath reasons leading to the difference is needed to enhance teaching and cultivate talents in physical education.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.9.boisestate
Tongtong Guo, Jian Yang
Inhibitory function is the core sub-function of executive function, which is mainly aimed at inhibiting the current dominant response in the cognitive process. It is embodied in the control of preventing the activation of irrelevant information, disturbing the irrelevant information, and the dominant reaction in the process. However, little research has examined the impact of Tai Chi on inhibitory function among native African students. The major purpose of this study was to conduct an experimental study on the inhibitory function of African college students through Tai Chi intervention, and to explore the non-Tai Chi local country students’ changes in the inhibitory function under the intervention of Tai Chi. Participants were18 male students from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, who were randomly selected from the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group was provided for an 8-week Tai Chi intervention, and the control group did not have Tai Chi program. The Inhibitory function was respectively measured by the Flanker task. A 2 x 2 repeated measures MANOVA was employed to examine the effect of exercise intervention (non-Tai Chi, Tai Chi) and time (pre-test, post-test) on the inhibition function among native African students. Before the study, an equal-pair matching design was used. The One-Way ANOVA to matching and screening the subject for exercise habits, BMI values, and age. The homogeneity of different groups' inhibition functions before the study was ensured. From the inhibition function, the time effect in the subject F=251.43, P=0.00 Conclusions: Tai Chi intervention has a positive impact on the inhibition function of male African college students.
{"title":"The Influence of Tai Chi Intervention on Inhibitory Function of African College Students","authors":"Tongtong Guo, Jian Yang","doi":"10.18122/ijpah.1.2.9.boisestate","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18122/ijpah.1.2.9.boisestate","url":null,"abstract":"Inhibitory function is the core sub-function of executive function, which is mainly aimed at inhibiting the current dominant response in the cognitive process. It is embodied in the control of preventing the activation of irrelevant information, disturbing the irrelevant information, and the dominant reaction in the process. However, little research has examined the impact of Tai Chi on inhibitory function among native African students. The major purpose of this study was to conduct an experimental study on the inhibitory function of African college students through Tai Chi intervention, and to explore the non-Tai Chi local country students’ changes in the inhibitory function under the intervention of Tai Chi. Participants were18 male students from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, who were randomly selected from the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group was provided for an 8-week Tai Chi intervention, and the control group did not have Tai Chi program. The Inhibitory function was respectively measured by the Flanker task. A 2 x 2 repeated measures MANOVA was employed to examine the effect of exercise intervention (non-Tai Chi, Tai Chi) and time (pre-test, post-test) on the inhibition function among native African students. Before the study, an equal-pair matching design was used. The One-Way ANOVA to matching and screening the subject for exercise habits, BMI values, and age. The homogeneity of different groups' inhibition functions before the study was ensured. From the inhibition function, the time effect in the subject F=251.43, P=0.00 Conclusions: Tai Chi intervention has a positive impact on the inhibition function of male African college students.","PeriodicalId":73469,"journal":{"name":"International journal of physical activity and health","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67684054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.32.boisestate
Ruili Chen
Nowadays, the gap between urban and rural physical education (PE) in China is gradually widening. It is mainly manifested in the loss of PE teachers in rural areas. It is important to understand and solve the problem of the loss of rural PE teachers. The purpose of this paper is to explore this problem and propose some strategies to solve this problem. This study mainly used the following methods—literature review, logical analysis, and expert interview. In this study, we found the following reason of the loss of rural PE teachers: The salary and benefit package received by rural PE teachers tend to be low comparing with the rural teacher of other subject matters (e.g., Chinese, Mathematics). This is one major reason that results in the major loss of PE teachers in rural schools of China. Teachers’ living and working conditions in rural schools tend to be low comparing with the conditions in urban schools. PE teachers in rural schools tend to be assigned more responsibilities/work to do (e.g., teaching other classes like math, Chinese in addition to PE) comparing with urban teachers. The marginalization of PE in Chinese school system is another reason for the loss of PE teachers. PE teachers are more likely to be marginalized in rural schools, which greatly reduces PE teacher’s enthusiasm on their teaching career. Here are some strategies that we think can help solve, at least alleviate, the PE teacher loss problem: The government needs to enact national policies regarding to improving the salary and benefit package of teachers, especially PE teachers, in rural school; universities need to increase their enrollment of students majoring in PE, which tends to be able to increase the number of PE teachers; national policies are needed to address the unequal treatments of teachers in school, so that PE teachers can have the same benefits and responsibilities with teachers of other subject matters; more professional development opportunities should be provided for in-service teachers, so that PE teachers can further pursuit their teaching career and maintain their teaching enthusiasm; necessary facilities and equipment need to be provided for PE teachers to effectively teach PE class and annual fund should be provided to support the renew of equipment and teaching; schools should develop fair, effective, and reasonable teacher assessment system. Unqualified/ineffective teachers should be laid off, so that effective and enthusiastic teacher can have opportunities to be hired.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.6.boisestate
Xia Zhao, Shuai Wang
The Chinese students' physical fitness was weakening from 1985 to 2005. Since 1995, almost all the physical fitness indicators have showed substantial decline over times. This study took this issue as the breakthrough point to examine how the physical education (PE) curriculum reform affected the students’ physical fitness in China. The primary and secondary school physical fitness literature has been reviewed. This study summarized the change of PE reform theory and practice during this period. Using the descriptive statistics, the proportions of physical activity in the PE curriculum of Chinese primary and secondary schools were analyzed. In the reform process of school PE in China from single dimension to multi-dimension, the generalization of PE function has blurred the essential function of physical fitness. The PE curriculum of 1992 in Chinese mandatory education was implemented for ten years. During this period, the economy has developed rapidly, and the curriculum showed a relatively weaken trend. Compared with the past curriculum, the PE curriculum of 1997 in Chinese high school has reduced the requirement of physical activity portion in PE classes. Furthermore, the physical activity and physical fitness evaluation were not paid enough attention in school evaluation and assessment. Due to insufficient course consciousness and ability, PE teachers have weakened the effectiveness of physical activity in PE teaching practice. Compared with the social, economic, and cultural development of China during this period, the reform of PE curriculum showed the weakening trend, which coincided with the tendency of students' physical fitness decline. Physical activity and fitness are the foundations to reach school PE goals. The weakening of physical activity and fitness would lead to the difficulty for students to achieve the objectives of strengthening students' health, cultivating interests and habits, mastering techniques, and improving motor ability in school PE. It is recommended to examine the tendency of continuous weakening of physical fitness in the current reform of PE in China, and take effective measures to improve the impact of insufficient physical activities on students’ physical health.
{"title":"A Study on the Weakening of Physical Fitness in Physical Education Reform of China","authors":"Xia Zhao, Shuai Wang","doi":"10.18122/ijpah.1.2.6.boisestate","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18122/ijpah.1.2.6.boisestate","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese students' physical fitness was weakening from 1985 to 2005. Since 1995, almost all the physical fitness indicators have showed substantial decline over times. This study took this issue as the breakthrough point to examine how the physical education (PE) curriculum reform affected the students’ physical fitness in China. The primary and secondary school physical fitness literature has been reviewed. This study summarized the change of PE reform theory and practice during this period. Using the descriptive statistics, the proportions of physical activity in the PE curriculum of Chinese primary and secondary schools were analyzed. In the reform process of school PE in China from single dimension to multi-dimension, the generalization of PE function has blurred the essential function of physical fitness. The PE curriculum of 1992 in Chinese mandatory education was implemented for ten years. During this period, the economy has developed rapidly, and the curriculum showed a relatively weaken trend. Compared with the past curriculum, the PE curriculum of 1997 in Chinese high school has reduced the requirement of physical activity portion in PE classes. Furthermore, the physical activity and physical fitness evaluation were not paid enough attention in school evaluation and assessment. Due to insufficient course consciousness and ability, PE teachers have weakened the effectiveness of physical activity in PE teaching practice. Compared with the social, economic, and cultural development of China during this period, the reform of PE curriculum showed the weakening trend, which coincided with the tendency of students' physical fitness decline. Physical activity and fitness are the foundations to reach school PE goals. The weakening of physical activity and fitness would lead to the difficulty for students to achieve the objectives of strengthening students' health, cultivating interests and habits, mastering techniques, and improving motor ability in school PE. It is recommended to examine the tendency of continuous weakening of physical fitness in the current reform of PE in China, and take effective measures to improve the impact of insufficient physical activities on students’ physical health.","PeriodicalId":73469,"journal":{"name":"International journal of physical activity and health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67684439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.10.boisestate
Ming-Xia Wu, Jian Yang, Yu-Yu Yuan, Yuan Zhang
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of time management disposition on mobile phone addiction, explore the mediating role of self-esteem, and examine the differences between active and inactive college students in this mediating role. 887 college students participated in this study with valid measures. According to physical activity rating scale (PARS-3), students who met the recommendations of the World Health Organization's Global recommendations on physical activity for health were categorized into active groups while the others were inactive group. The data was subjected to mediation model testing and multi-group comparison using Amos 21.0. The proportion of physical inactivity of college students was as high as 66.76%, there were significant differences between active and inactive college student in time monitoring concept, time efficacy, self-esteem, withdrawal symptoms, prominent behavior, social comfort and mood change. Each dimension of time management disposition was significantly negatively correlated with each dimension of mobile phone addiction, and was significantly positively correlated with self-esteem. Self-esteem was significantly negatively correlated with all dimensions of mobile phone addiction. According to the model test, the data fitted the hypothesized model well. In the whole sample model and active group model, self-esteem played a partial mediating role. In the inactive college student group, the exercise value cognition played a part of mediating role. Multi-group analysis found that the moderating effect of active or not was not significant. Self-esteem played a part of mediating role in the influence of time management disposition on mobile phone addiction. The findings suggest that persistent participation in physical activity help students to improve time management ability and reduce mobile phone dependence and even addiction. Future research needs to explore more influential factors for promoting college students' physical and mental health.
{"title":"College Students’ Time Management Disposition, Self-Esteem and Mobile Phone Addiction","authors":"Ming-Xia Wu, Jian Yang, Yu-Yu Yuan, Yuan Zhang","doi":"10.18122/ijpah.1.2.10.boisestate","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18122/ijpah.1.2.10.boisestate","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of time management disposition on mobile phone addiction, explore the mediating role of self-esteem, and examine the differences between active and inactive college students in this mediating role. 887 college students participated in this study with valid measures. According to physical activity rating scale (PARS-3), students who met the recommendations of the World Health Organization's Global recommendations on physical activity for health were categorized into active groups while the others were inactive group. The data was subjected to mediation model testing and multi-group comparison using Amos 21.0. The proportion of physical inactivity of college students was as high as 66.76%, there were significant differences between active and inactive college student in time monitoring concept, time efficacy, self-esteem, withdrawal symptoms, prominent behavior, social comfort and mood change. Each dimension of time management disposition was significantly negatively correlated with each dimension of mobile phone addiction, and was significantly positively correlated with self-esteem. Self-esteem was significantly negatively correlated with all dimensions of mobile phone addiction. According to the model test, the data fitted the hypothesized model well. In the whole sample model and active group model, self-esteem played a partial mediating role. In the inactive college student group, the exercise value cognition played a part of mediating role. Multi-group analysis found that the moderating effect of active or not was not significant. Self-esteem played a part of mediating role in the influence of time management disposition on mobile phone addiction. The findings suggest that persistent participation in physical activity help students to improve time management ability and reduce mobile phone dependence and even addiction. Future research needs to explore more influential factors for promoting college students' physical and mental health.","PeriodicalId":73469,"journal":{"name":"International journal of physical activity and health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67682856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.28.boisestate
Fan Wenrui, Wang Xiaozan, Guo Mingming
Physical and Health Education Curriculum (KDL) is a curriculum based on China's Sports and Health Curriculum Standards and China's Health Sports Curriculum Model. This study aims to explore the influence of KDL on primary school students' physical fitness. A total of 91 primary school students participated in this study, including 47 in the experimental group and 44 in the control group. The experiment lasted for 18 weeks. During the experiment, the PE teacher of experimental group used KDL to teach, with specific requirements: (1) The activity time of each class was more than 75%, and the intensity, measured with average heart rates, was above 140-160 beats/min; (2) Each class had about 10 minutes of physical exercise; and (3) each class focused on activities and competitions. The control group was given routine physical education lessons without intervention. Before and after the experiment, both groups participated in physical fitness tests, including 50-meter running, vital capacity, seat forward flexion, and 1-minute rope jumping. SPSS was used to analyze the physical fitness of both groups. Before the experiment, there was no significant difference in physical fitness between the two groups. After the experiment, the experiment group outperformed the control group in the 1-minute rope skipping (t = 10.77, p < 0.05) and exceled in the vital capacity (t = 0.04, p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in other physical fitness tests between the two groups. This study shows that KDL curriculum has a significant positive impact on physical fitness of primary school students, mainly reflected in vital capacity and 1-minute rope skipping. The effect may be related to the high time on task and appropriate intensity advocated by KDL curriculum. We recommend KDL physical curriculum to be promoted in primary and secondary schools.
体育与健康教育课程(KDL)是基于中国体育与健康课程标准和中国健康体育课程模式的课程。本研究旨在探讨KDL对小学生体质的影响。共有91名小学生参与本研究,其中实验组47名,对照组44名。试验期18周。实验过程中,实验组体育老师采用KDL授课,具体要求:(1)每节课的活动时间在75%以上,以平均心率测量强度在140-160次/分以上;(2)每节课约10分钟的体育锻炼;(3)每个班级都注重活动和比赛。对照组给予常规体育课,不加干预。实验前后,两组均进行体能测试,包括50米跑、肺活量、座椅前屈、1分钟跳绳。采用SPSS统计软件对两组的体质进行分析。实验前,两组学生的体能水平无显著差异。实验结束后,实验组跳绳1分钟成绩优于对照组(t = 10.77, p < 0.05),肺活量优于对照组(t = 0.04, p < 0.05)。两组在其他体能测试方面无显著差异。本研究发现,KDL课程对小学生体能有显著的正向影响,主要体现在肺活量和1分钟跳绳两个方面。这种效果可能与KDL课程所提倡的高任务时间和适当的强度有关。我们建议在小学和中学推广KDL体育课程。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.42.boisestate
Guyue Zhang, Z. Yin
With the increasing world multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversity and social informatization, all countries in the world have adopted key competencies as an important part of education research. As a programmatic document of physical education in the new century, physical education and health curriculum standards play an important role in the demonstration and promotion of quality education. The purpose of this study was to compare the Chinese and United States (US) high school physical education and health curriculum standards from the perspective of key competencies. Using literature review, this study compared the high school physical education and health curriculum standards between China and US with five aspects: curriculum nature and concept, curriculum objectives, curriculum content, academic quality, and learning evaluation. The key competencies connotation of physical education and health curriculum standards in China and US are relatively consistent, both of which centered on improving and maintaining students' health and well-being, and were multidimensional including aspects of sports ability, sports cognition, healthy life, social behavior, emotional attitude and values; The standards structure of physical education and health curriculum in China appeared to be more complete (with specific focus on sports skills), the content scope was more detailed, the learning objectives needed to be more specific, the learning requirements were clear, but the learning evaluation still needed to be further enriched; The structure of the US physical education curriculum standards was relatively loose, had clear and multi-level learning goals, high learning requirements, operable evaluation content, with curriculum content focus on cultivating students' lifelong sports habits. We should firmly implement the guiding ideology of health first, adhere to the core quality of physical education, and emphasize the parallel relationship among sports ability, healthy behavior and physical education morality. However, we should not blindly pursue the average development in the specific teaching process. China should pay attention to the evaluation of physical education learning, further enrich its content, especially the evaluation methods and means of students' internal performance. We should correctly grasp the principle of "tightening" and "relaxing" when dealing with the key competencies, and attach importance to the on-the-job training of front-line physical education teachers.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.18122/ijpah.1.2.43.boisestate
Yue Xu, Z. Yin
In recent years, social media has played an important role in the professional development(PD)of physical education (PE) teachers (Jeffrey P. Carpenter & Stephen Harvey, 2020). There is a wealth of research on the professional development of PE teachers, but few relevant studies examined social media-based PDs. The purpose of this study was to specifically explore the research interests and changes in the PD of PE teachers in social media, and to explore the potential research space in this field. In this literature review, we followed three steps to conduct literature search. We used the following keywords: “social media”, OR “Wechat/Weibo”, AND “physical educators” or “PE teachers”, AND/OR “professional development” or “PD” for the literature search via the libraries resources of a large university in Shanghai, China. The search was limited to scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Then we cross-checked the bibliographies of the articles identified through direct library search to locate any missed articles. We next conducted direct searches in PubMed, Scilit, and ResearchGate with the same keywords. Inclusion criteria included: (a) the study must be from the perspective of social media; (b) the main results must involve teachers’ PD or related variables. A total of 56 highly relevant articles were retrieved and then saved to a data processing computer. The research team summarized and reported below several thematic findings. The main aspects of researches for social-media related PD of PE teachers were summarized including relevant concepts, connotation characteristics, theoretical basis, current development status, relevant factors, existing problems and corresponding strategies. The efficient communication and interaction as an important function of social media has attracted extensive attention and induced discussion in academic circles, where the topics mainly focus on the construction of identity, knowledge sharing, etc. Many related studies have continued examining the PD of individual teachers but are not specific to the reality of PE teacher groups, so the combination with the specific implementation of relevant theories on PE teacher groups needs more attention in related work. Social media can fill some of the gaps in PE teachers’ traditional PD community. It is necessary to conduct more comprehensive theoretical and empirical studies on social media-based PDs for PE teachers. The findings from this literature review shed light on the integration of resources needed to promote and thrive social media-based PD opportunities for PE teachers.
近年来,社交媒体在体育教师专业发展(PD)中发挥了重要作用(Jeffrey P. Carpenter & Stephen Harvey, 2020)。关于体育教师专业发展的研究非常丰富,但对基于社交媒体的体育教师专业发展的相关研究却很少。本研究的目的是专门探讨社交媒体下体育教师PD的研究兴趣和变化,并探索该领域潜在的研究空间。在本次文献综述中,我们按照三个步骤进行文献检索。我们使用以下关键词:“社交媒体”,或“b微信/微博”,和“体育教育工作者”或“体育教师”,和/或“专业发展”或“PD”通过中国上海一所大型大学的图书馆资源进行文献检索。研究仅限于同行评议的学术期刊。然后,我们通过直接图书馆检索来交叉核对文章的参考书目,以找到任何遗漏的文章。接下来,我们用相同的关键词在PubMed、sciilit和ResearchGate进行直接搜索。纳入标准包括:(a)研究必须来自社交媒体的视角;(b)主要结果必须包含教师的PD或相关变量。总共检索了56篇高度相关的文章,然后保存到数据处理计算机中。研究小组总结并报告了以下几项专题调查结果。总结了体育教师社交媒体相关PD研究的相关概念、内涵特征、理论基础、发展现状、相关因素、存在问题及对策等主要方面。作为社交媒体的一项重要功能,高效的沟通和互动引起了学术界的广泛关注和讨论,话题主要集中在身份建构、知识共享等方面。许多相关研究对教师个体PD进行了持续的考察,但并没有针对体育教师群体的实际情况,因此结合相关理论对体育教师群体的具体实施,需要在相关工作中给予更多的关注。社交媒体可以填补体育教师传统PD社区的一些空白。有必要对体育教师基于社交媒体的pd进行更全面的理论和实证研究。本文献综述的发现揭示了促进和繁荣体育教师基于社交媒体的PD机会所需的资源整合。
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