A Study on Construction of Teachers Inquiry in Physical Education

Abstract

"Teachers Inquiry" which is called "HATSUMON" in Japanese is not simple question, but inquiry which arouses intellectual activities of children. It is the aim of the present paper to discuss how teachers inquiry in physical education should be constructed from two aspects, which are both logic of teaching materials and construction of classes situation. The discussion of this paper was summarized as follows. Teachers inquiry in physical education classes must be constructed as a series of inquiries. This series consists of a series based on logic of teaching materials and a series relevant to construction of classes situation. In case of the former, according to types of teaching materials and the object of classes, teachers inquiry is constructed from either viewpoint of "a series of motor skills - a hierarchy of motor learning" or "a structure of movement combination (Bewegungskombination: by G. Schnabel)" involving algorithm of movement. In case of the latter, it is considered that teachers inquiry evolves from inquiry about learning task to inquiry relevant to observation (inquiry about a point of view in the observation - inquiry about evaluation of the observation).