College Students' Perspectives, Goals, and Strategies in Sport Education

We examined the perspective, goals, and strategies of students enrolled in collegiate physical education courses. Our aim was to determine the extent to which a model developed by Allen (1986) describing student-social systems in high schools would approximate those in a collegiate setting. Forty-six students from two elective volleyball classes completed online surveys and participated in group interviews. It was determined that while specific parts of the original model were appropriate for describing college students' agendas for physical education, participation in the Sport Education model provided a more complimentary (in contrast to adversarial) link between the students' quest for good grades and their socializing strategies. A more appropriate model is presented.

Key words:

• ecology
• social system
• physical education

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Oleg A. Sinelnikov

Please address correspondence concerning this article to Oleg A. Sinelnikov, Department of Kinesiology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487