Should the Curricular Time Allocated to School Physical Education Be Increased? Insights From Participants in a Follow-Up of the Trois-Rivières Study (original) (raw)

The Physical Educator, 2015

Abstract

In this study, we explored the effects of exposure to an experimental program of daily physical education (PE) during primary school on adult attitudes toward school PE. In 2008, 86 original participants in the Trois-RiviA¨res study (44 women and 42 men aged 44.0 ± 1.2 years) underwent a semistructured interview in which their attitudes toward PE, the amount of curricular time that should be allocated to PE, and participants' recollections of their primary school PE program were examined. From 1970 to 1977, these individuals had been assigned to either an experimental program (5 hr of PE per week from Grade 1 to 6) or the standard curriculum (40 min of PE per week). Participants advocated increasing the time currently allocated to school PE, to an average of 3 hr 25 min/week (± 1 hr 9 min). Justifications for such an increase included the lack of other opportunities for physical activity (PA), enhanced academic achievement in active individuals, and the potential contribution of...

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