Improvement in the teaching method of Judo in school physical education

-The experimental research on the effective use of the small group-

Abstract

We investigated the conditions in which we could use the small groups effectively to attain educational objectives of Judo both in technical and attitudinal domain simultaneously in school physical education. Following two variables were examined.1) Reorganization versus fixation of the small group throughout the lessons in one learning unit.2) Degree of the permission for autonomous activities in intra-group interaction under the condition of some learning tasks obviously presented.
Subjects were 119 senior high school students. The teaching material of the lessons was the review of Newaza and the inter-group match games. Three times of 50 minutes lessons were the period of this experiment.
Results were as follows.1) More progress in technical domain was found in the condition of reorganization. On the other hand, higher attainment of attitudinal objectives was found in the condition of fixation. But when the degree of the permission for autonomous activities in the small group was higher, it was found that more progress in technical domain was possible even in the fixed group condition.2) In the condition of higher degree of permission for autonomous activities in the small group, more progress in technical domain was found. On the other hand, in the condition of lower degree of permission, the attainment of the attitudinal objectives was more progressive. It was supposed that the result of the latter was induced by lack of the subjects' experiences of the group management under such more autonomous learning condition.
At the end of the examination, the significance and the orientation of the positive study in school education was discussed.