Analyzing Purpose Concepts among Students and Teachers in an Existing Curriculum of Physical Education at Secondary Schools

Abstract

The main purpose of the current physical education program is to promote a desirable attitude as well as to improve the good health of the students. Consequently, school programs are designed to help students develop this desirable attitude all throughout their lives, and to function as a mediating stages to obtain this goal. It is true that school programs have not fulfilled such social and educational functions and have thereby been criticized. The cirticism is that physical education classes were degraded because of the irregular curriculum, the overemphasis of entrance examinations, the lack of facilities and equipment. the financial deficit, the insufficient quality of teachers, and the school administators' biased view towards physical education.