본 연구는 최근 초등학교 여교사 비율이 80%대를 육박하며 체육교육에 있어 적지 않은 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 선행 연구결과를 근거로 현재 교육대학교 여학생의 체육실기 기피현상을 살펴보고 해법을 탐색하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 혼합연구방법을 활용하여 양적 자료수집을 위해 100명의 교대 여학생에 대해 설문조사를 실시하고 빈도분석을 실시하였다. 질적 자료수집을 위해 11명의 교대 여학생과 개방적-반구조적 면담을 실시하였으며 이를 질문분석법을 활용하여 분석하였다. 연구결과 70%의 설문대상 여학생과 면담에 참여한 11명 중 8명의 여학생이 체육활동을 싫어한다고 보고하였다. 체육실기를 기피하는 정도의 순위로서 타 교과와 비교할 때 1-5위 내로 선정한 여학생의 비율이 70%로 나타났으며, 기피 원인으로는 운동을 못해서, 부상이 두려워서, 평가가 부담돼서, 수업이 무의미해서, 움직이는 연습이 싫어서 등의 이유가 제시되었다. 대신 초등학생에게 체육활동이 중요하다는 데에는 대부분이 인식하고 있었으며, 자신이 향후 체육수업을 지도하는 것에 대해서는 매우 낮은 자신감을 보였다. 본 연구에서는 여학생 체육 실기 기피현상의 원인으로 체육현장에 잔존하고 있는 ‘아나공’ 수업 등과 같은 불성실한 수업내용에 주목하며 현장 체육교사들의 반성과 성찰이 필요함을 역설하였다. 이어 체육실기 기피현상에 대한 해법으로 여학생의 정서를 이해하고 반영한 교과구성, 여자 스포츠 강사의 확대 배치, 여학생 친화적 체육 프로그램 개발 및 보급, 즐기는 수업으로의 패러다임 전환, 체육교육자의 깊은 반성과 실천적 의지를 제시하였다.
Assuming that recent dramatic increase of female teachers in elementary schools caused several side-effects, such as feminization of male elementary students, this study attempted to explore status-que of female students’ hatred over physical activities in educational university. This study also tried to generate solutions that promote female students’ participation in physical activities. Data collection was two folds; 1) to collect quantitative data, a total of 100 female students attending an educational university was selected as survey subjects, being asked their general tendency on physical activities, teaching confidence on physical education, and so forth, 2) to collect qualitative data, 11 female students attending an educational university were selected as research participants and were participated in open-ended and semi-structured interviews. To analyze the data, frequency analysis for quantitative data and question analysis for qualitative data were utilized. As the results, 70% survey participants hated physical activity while 8 out of 11 interviewees hated physical activity. 70% of survey participants designated physical activity classes as one of top five classes they hate. The reasons for the hatred over physical activities turned out to be 1) poor exercise skills, 2) fear of injury, 3) burden over evaluation, 4) meaninglessness of physical education, and 5) hatred over movement. The female students believed that physical activities are important for elementary school students, but paradoxically they have been neglected in participating in physical activities, which they need to teach after becoming elementary school teacher. Meanwhile, 80% of survey participants were lack of confidence in teaching physical activity classes. This study highlighted faithless and poor physical education in elementary, middle, and high schools as one of pivotal reasons of the hatred of female students, and self-reflection and introspection should be taken place by physical educators. In order to minimize the hatred over physical activity of female students, we propose the following solutions; 1) designing curriculums reflecting female students’ emotional traits, 2) expanding employment of female sports instructors in educational environment, 3) development and dissemination of female students-friendly physical education programs, 4) change of paradigm of physical education in which female students can enjoy physical education rather than being a subject of evaluation, and 5) in-depth self-reflection and introspection by physical educators should firstly be taken place.