Sample
In the current study, the sample of teachers focusing on sports education and working in the university setting. The sample of teachers is expected to have experience working with students for whom sports education is an imperative aspect of learning. These educators are expected to address the educational challenges of health education and develop appropriate strategies for making sure that all people can be effective in learning. It is expected that the sample of teachers will be predominantly female (although male teachers will also be included), aged between 25 and 65, with several years of experience working in the educational field. In order to facilitate representativeness, a sample of 200 teachers will be selected from various educational facilities in Saudi Arabia that provide sports education
Obtaining the Sample
The sample of teachers will be chosen with the help of simple random sampling. This method of sampling implies that each member of the teacher population has equal chances of participating in research. The benefit of this sampling method is associated with the ease of forming representative groups from an overall population. To recruit the teachers, name lists of educators working in sports education at different facilities will be collected, including the University of Jeddah. Each teacher will be assigned a number that will be inserted in a randomization software that will provide random numbers corresponding to teachers.
In this way, any bias is eliminated because the choice of teachers will depend on software. The social context of the sample will play an essential role in the study because interactions between students and teachers imply a degree of socialization, as mentioned by Frank (1998).
The issue of gatekeeping plays an important role in the study because it is expected that leaders of educational facilities will facilitate interactions between the researcher and teachers to be participating in research. University managers can also have the power to grant the permission to access teachers when it comes to data collection. Therefore, in instances when facility managers prevent the researcher from contacting teachers, other educational facilities will be chosen for the study. This represents the key limitation in research since the involvement of professionals overseeing the work of teachers can be limiting in terms of data collection.
However, having a gatekeeper in the current study is important because the researcher does not have legitimate access to teachers’ data and thus will experience issues with gathering the necessary information for the study. The permission to access the sample and data will be collected from university managers as well as potential participants themselves. Therefore, another limitation is the absence of teachers’ support for the study and the lack of desire to participate in sampling.
Overview of Literature
The study is supported by previous research in the field of sports education. For example, Usher, Edwards, & de Meyrick (2015) provided a framework for effective educational approaches targeted at improving students’ capabilities in becoming healthier through sports activities. Al-Hashem (2016) had interesting findings in showing that health education was gaining increased importance in the Saudi Arabian context because students were showing an increased rate of disease occurrence. Araújo, Mesquita, Hastie, & Pereira (2016) were effective in illustrating the integration of sports education into the curriculum Therefore, the current study aims to research the attitudes of teachers toward sports education to discover methods that will benefit students’ learning and overall health.
Disease
The concept of disease is important to apply to the current study as the intervention is intended to reduce the occurrence of illnesses among the target population through physical education. Disease refers to a specific abnormal condition that adversely influences the structure or function of a part of organism, and that is not associated with external injury. Therefore, the improvement of environments that affect the shaping of health and well-being is important for reducing the occurrence of diseases among students.
References
Al-Hashem A. (2016). Health education in Saudi Arabia: Historical overview. Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 16(3), 286-292.
Araújo R., Mesquita I., Hastie P.A., Pereira C. (2016). Students’ game performance improvements during a hybrid sport education – step-game-approach volleyball unit. European Physical Education Review 22, 185-200.
Frank, K. (1998). Quantitative methods for studying social context in multilevel and through interpersonal relations. Review of Research in Education, 23(1), 171-216.
Usher, W., Edwards, A., & de Meyrick, B. (2015). Utilizing educational theoretical models to support effective physical education pedagogy. Cogent Education, 2(1), 1-10.