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Teaching of Physical Education during the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

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Abstract

The paper deals with the teaching of physical education in particular levels of school (mainly in primary and secondary school) within the emergency state which has been declared by the Government of the Czech Republic in spring and autumn 2020. Besides above mentioned facts the paper is also focused on issues of a preparation of future physical education teachers in university, especially in the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University.

The task of the paper was to analyse an effect of measures which has been adopted in connection with declaring of an emergency state (and de facto with the school lockdown) in spring and then also in autumn of the year 2020. Secondary tasks were to compare both of emergency states and their impact on teaching of physical education and to compare the activities of particular authorities which participate on the distance form of a teaching process of physical education (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic, Czech television, different vocational groups, web sites etc.).

The main goal of the paper was to find out how adopted measures influenced the teaching of physical education and how particular authorities dealed with this situaction. Methodological background of the paper is formed by the content analysis of relevant documents.

The text is processed by a diachronical as well as by a synchronous procedure. The results show that particular authorities were active and willing to deal with the situation.

This ascertainment is valid only for a spring. After the declaration of a second emergency state in autumn 2020, there is no evidence of an activity and invention of some cardinal participants.

For example, Czech television relied only on a rebroadcastig of the educational programme "UčíTelka" (so it means that in school we should teach the same things in spring and in autumn). Another finding is the fact that physical education is put into the broadcasting only marginally and web sites engaged in physical education are assured by organisations without a clear relationship to physical education (there are no visible proffesional teachers of Physical education in assessed portals).

Finally, we can mention that physical education is also titled by an improper way in all evaluated portals.