出版社:Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences
摘要:This paper is based on the present investigator's individual study for M.S. Degree presented to the Faculty of the Department of Physical Education, University of California, Los Angeles in June, 1967. The purpose of this study was to systematically organize a theoretical framework of the methodology of comparative physical education. The bibliographical method was used and the source materials were mainly sought in the field of comparative education. In this paper the purposes of comparative physical education, categories and specific items to be compared, data collecting methods, and treatment of the results were discussed. Four purposes, five general categories and each respective specific items, five specific data collecting methods, and four stages of the treatment of data were presented. Comparative physical education is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and holistic study of national systems of physical education; it has a great merit in itself ; and to realize its whole potentiality it must be conducted co-operatively by individual investigators and national and international organizations.