Improving the physical literacy of pupils aged 10–11 on the basis of the Chinese Healthy Physical Education Curriculum Model

Аннотация

Objective of the study is to identify the effectiveness of the use of the means of wushu in the physical education of pupils aged 10-11.

Methods and structure of the study. The objects of the study were 90 pupils aged 10-11 from a primary school in the city of Zhengzhou, randomly divided into experimental group A, experimental group B and a control group. A programme for teaching wushu on the basis of the Chinese Healthy Physical Education Curriculum Model was developed. An educational experiment lasting 14 weeks was conducted using instruments for assessing physical literacy and a scale of children’s physical activity. An inter-group comparison was made of the indicators of the physical literacy of the pupils of the three groups after the experiment, and the average magnitude of the improvement of these indicators across all the dimensions was calculated.

Results and conclusions. In the dimensions of motivation and confidence, knowledge and understanding, daily behaviour and physical abilities, the gain in the indicators in experimental group A was significantly higher than in experimental group B and in the control group. For the majority of the indicators, no statistically significant differences were revealed between experimental group B and the control group. For the indicator of ‘physical activity over the last seven days’ no significant differences between the three groups were found; however, the maximum magnitude of the gain in results was observed in group A. On the whole, this testifies that the teaching of wushu on the basis of the Chinese Healthy Physical Education Curriculum Model makes it possible to raise the level of the physical literacy of pupils aged 10-11 more reliably and comprehensively, and that its effectiveness is clearly higher than that of the traditional teaching of wushu and of standard physical education lessons.