In the Master's thesis, we researched the opinions of second-year students about the content of dance in sport.
In the theoretical part, we defined the importance of movement in general and then focused on dance. We have mentioned the elements of dance and the technique of movement in dance. We also gave a brief history of dance. We focused on dance education in primary school. We describe the educational principles, aims, objectives, tasks, forms and content of dance education. We also explain the teacher's role in teaching dance, teaching methods and methods of dance education. Towards the end of the theoretical part, we focused on the child, explaining how dance affects children's holistic development, children and adolescents' attitudes towards movement and the importance of incentives in sport.
In this master thesis we investigated the problem of prejudice that some students have towards dance in the subject of sport. We used a quantitative research approach (survey questionnaire). The research is based on a caval non-experimental research method. The empirical work was carried out with 186 pupils in the 4th, 5th and 6th grade of primary school in Gorenjska region. We wanted to know if dance is popular with pupils in general, whether they do dance in their free time, whether dance is popular in sports, who teaches them sports, which forms of work pupils like when they do dance in sports and which they dislike. We also wanted to know how often they dance in sport, how they feel and what they would change in sport to make them like it more.
The results show that more than half of the students surveyed like dance in sport. As far as activities are concerned, students are most enthusiastic about dance games and least enthusiastic about pairs dancing.
Very few students take part in dance in their free time. Only a few percent attend a dance club or dance school. Within a family, several individuals dance.
As for feeling good in sport, when dancing is practiced, most students feel good. If students could change anything to make them like dancing more in sport, many students would not change anything. However, there are quite a few students who would change the type of dance or the music, add more dance games, and some who wouldn't dance at all.
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