Opportunities For Guidance In Secondary School Physical Education

OPPORTUNITIES FOR GUIDANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION A Project Presented to the Faculty of the School of Education University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Degree Master of Science in Education by Jack Gerald O'Brien June 1950 UMI Number: EP46499 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI EP46499 Published by ProQuest LLC (2014). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 106-1346 Pi- lsf ^ / 3 77m project report, written under the direction of the candidate’s adviser and approved hy him, has been presented to and accepted by the Faculty of the School of Education in partial fulfillm ent of the requirements fo r the degree of Master of Science in Education. Adviser Dean TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE INTRODUCTION .................................. The purpose and nature of the study 1 . . . . 1 Importance of the p r o b l e m ................. 2 The problem of juvenile delinquency ... 2 The changing concepts of the task of e d u c a t i o n ................ 5 The changing philosophy of physical .............................. 7 Review of the literature ................... 9 Method of p r o c e d u r e ....................... 14 education Source of d a t a ................... 14 Treatment of d a t a ....................... 15 Weaknesses and limitations ............... 15 Definition of t e r m s ....................... 16 G u i d a n c e ................... 16 N e e d s .................................... 16 Secondary school physical education program II. ..................... . . . . . 17 Organization of the s t u d y ................. 17 PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL YOUTH IN TERMS OF BASIC N E E D S ...................................... 19 Introduction ................................ 19 ill CHAPTER PAGE Characteristics of the junior high school b o y ........................................ 19 Characteristics of the senior high school b o y ........................................ 23 Adolescent problems and needs ............... 26 Chapter summary .............................. 32 III. SELECTED PROBLEM CASES OF ADOLESCENT BOYS . . . 33 ....................... 33 ...................................... 33 Introduction Case I Case d a t a ............ 33 Analysis of c a s e .......................... 31*- Solution of c a s e .......................... 3^ Case I I ...................................... 35 Case d a t a .................................. 35 Analysis of c a s e .......................... 36 Solution of c a s e .......................... 36 Case III.. .............. Case d a t a .......... .