Sport Philosoplical Study on Decreasing Tendency of High School Sport Club Participation

Abstract

Aim of This Study: There seems to be some important problems in high school sport club activities. This study surveyed these problems through a questionnaire destributed to 84 chief P. E. teachers of 84 high schools in Saitama-prefecture in Japan. The Aim of this study is to infer a common cause of problems from the survey.
The Survey: The results of survey were obtained from 12 questions. These were deviled in 4 groups: 1) the students' participation in school sport club; 2) consciousness of sports club students; 3) administrative measures taken by school authorities: 4) conditional problems to sport club activities.
The Results and Discussion; Number of students' participation are decreasing. The basic cause arizes from social change, i.e. from, so called, the information society. The mind of students is lacking virtues related to achieve their objectives. The administrative measures by high school authorities are increasing and conditional problems to sports club activities are short of (1) facilities and (2) coaches.
Inference; The cause of decreasing in the desire to participate and increasing in administrative measures by school authorities are infered to destructions of gang-age natural play groups in the communities. It means destruction of the basic experiences of informal group achievement and natural social adjustment. It has affected even in high school ages.