댄스스포츠를 활용한 학교스포츠클럽활동이 중학생의 활동몰입 및 사회성에 미치는 영향

Abstract

School education in Korea has degenerated into playing field with educational pressures for children, focusing on college entrance until recently. As a result, children are becoming test score-oriented, competition-oriented and self-interested and opportunities for physical activities are decreasing. It makes children have lower physical strength and imbalances of their bodies and it leads to increasing obesity rate. In addition, an increase of bullying and school violence using SNS or messengers is becoming social issue due to the popularization of the Internet and smart media. To solve these problems, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources has been trying to strengthen physical activities of students through activating school sports club and "sports day on Saturday" by planning to nurture a "school sports club" in 2007 and introducing a five-day school week in 2012. School sports club activity performs roles and functions as a place of building up the students' physical strength, field trip of the developments of sports skills or sports culture, learning leadership or community and experiencing leisure culture through the vitalization of self-regulated physical activities. It intends to operate the existing sports club systematically which were disorganized before by activating them as "school sports club" to promote energetic school atmosphere. As a part of these sports activities, dance sports is a touching dance that a pair of men and women has to make harmony with their partner with a great leadership. Dance sports also has characteristics of sports, exercise function and recreation as well as arts. These characteristics of dance sports help adolescents have physical strength, cooperation mind, responsibility and good manners. Furthermore, they can learn how to respect other's character, keep their promise, tolerate and control themselves through dance sports. The purpose of this study is to provide the basis for activating "school sports club activities" by dance sports and to help students' understanding of dance sports and their healthcare by dividing participation flow and sociality of middle school students into sub-factors and analyzing its effects on sociality using dance sports as a part of school sports club activities. The method of this study works as follows.

First, analyze the difference of participation flow by demographic character. Second, analyze the difference of sociality by demographic character. Third, analyze the effects of sociality by participation flow.

The results from this study are as follows: First, clear objectives, immediate feedback, balance of personal ability and challenge and distorted sense of timing which are sub-factors of participation flow demonstrated average at the high level in a group of third grade and a focus on given assignment which is one of them demonstrated average at the high level in a group of second grade. Second, friendship, cooperation, responsibility which are sub-factors of sociality demonstrated average at the high level in a group of third grade and sociability which is also one of the sub-factors of sociality demonstrated high average in a group of first grade. Third, it was found that there was correlation between sociality and participation flow and it demonstrated high correlation between all factors.

From the results, "school sports club activity" using dance sports has a positive impact on middle school students to develop social skills as they have cooperative and competitive relationship with their friends through the physical activities. Consequently, schools and teachers have to make efforts in providing opportunities of participating school sports club using dance sports to make them experience dance sports naturally by "school sports club activities".