Introduction: Dragon parade is one of the traditional and historical activities in Chinese culture. Students can potentially develop how to be responsible persons through learning in dragon parade. A high school physical education teacher, as a researcher, intended to develop a Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility(TPSR) program (Hellison, 2011) for student development in first four levels of TPSR. The ultimate goal is to help students develop themselves as positive models of others and physically active life-long learners. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore high school students’ attitude pertaining to respect, self-motivation, self-direction, and caring while teaching in dragon parade.
Methods: An action research as a qualitative research method intends to solve problems through cyclical process of thinking, acting, data collection and reflection (Savin-Baden & Major, 2013). Participants were 26 high school students: 19 males and 7 females. Data sources included: teacher journals and unit plans, teaching artifacts, semi-structured interviews, videotaping, and questionnaires. Trustworthiness was established through data triangulation, peer review, and member checks.
Results: The implementation of TPSR model in dragon parade classes seemed positively impact students’ learning in relation to respect, self-motivation, self-direction, and caring for others. Through considerable planning, teaching, and reflection, the physical education teacher acquired practical experience to enhancing students’ learning efficacy, refining TPSR program design as well as developing an interactive teaching and learning environment.
Conclusions: Results implied that physical education teachers should maintain favorable and positive attitudes in teaching and learning setting. In addition, being relational with students in class should be practicing through the use of TPSR model (Hellison, 2011). In general, it begs the questions as to the assessment for student learning of how they transfer learning to impacting others in the community.
Keywords: Action Research, TPSR, Dragon parade, Teaching of physical education
• Transformative learning and teaching in physical education and sports pedagogy
