A Study on Relation between Children’s Motor Abilities and Time Processing / Movement in Daily Life from the Viewpoint of Gender

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider the possibility of P.E. teaching to improve student’s motor abilities by researching whether there are any differences in factors which decide one’s motor abilities between male and female students. Movement and time processing in each student’s daily lives are focused on, and discussed how they affect one’s motor abilities. The object of this research is students of 342, age 6-12. Results of research about motor abilities and movement are as follows. 1) Motor abilities and movement in daily life are correlative. And students, both of male and female, make more variety of movement has higher motor abilities. 2) The factors which affect one’s motor abilities are different between male and female at age of 9-12. Results of research about motor abilities and time processing are as follows. 1) Students who spend for “playing inside” and “reading comics” have lower motor abilities in both male and female. 2) Male students who spend more “girlish time”, such as “house work”, have lower motor abilities. On the other hand, female students who spend more “boyish time”, such as “playing outside” have higher motor abilities. There is a difference between male and female in this point. Those results lead one direction of P.E. teaching. Students live and learn in today’s gender life and their motor abilities are affected by gender rules such as “boys play outside and girls play inside”, therefore, the necessity of gender free teaching has been insisted. However, more specific instruction is needed now, such as reacting and guiding their students by paying attention to their actual life styles to improve student’s motor abilities.