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Health And Physical: World War II brought a renewed focus on the role of the school in promoting good health and physical. The traditional equating of health and physical with physical fitness, and health and physical education with physical education, was further perpetuated during this period. During the 1960's this concept was replaced by the identification of health and physical education as a discipline separate from physical education. The School health and physical Education Study, initiated with private funds in 1961, had the most significant impact in establishing health and physical education as a separate discipline.
About 70 colleges and universities offer programs to train health and physical education teachers, and the profession is growing. Members of the profession feel strongly that health and physical education should not be considered a part of physical education and that physical education should not be a branch of health and physical education. Some high schools now give a half year to physical education and a half year to health and physical instruction.
At the elementary school level health and physical instruction is organized and conducted by the classroom teacher. In secondary schools it has been traditional to assign the responsibility for health and physical education to physical education teachers. A pattern frequently observed had one man functioning as teacher for physical and health and physical education classes and coach for athletics. In the 1960's a trend developed to make health and physical education a separate course, taught by a specially trained teacher. |
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