Date of Award:

5-1954

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Kinesiology and Health Science

Department name when degree awarded

Physical Education

Committee Chair(s)

H. B. Hunsaker

Committee

H. B. Hunsaker

Committee

E. A. Jacobsen

Committee

David R. Stone

Committee

Lois Downs

Abstract

Each person in education from the Commissioner of Education down to the classroom teacher is concerned with administration. Each has administrative duties. The way these duties are conducted and carried out will have a direct influence on the outcome of any physical education program and each child within this program.

Through the Tenth Amendment responsibility for the administration of education has been turned over to the various states. Most of the states through their constitutions place the responsibility upon the legislature to provide for organization and maintenance of public school systems. This body then draws up the statutory laws and provisions to which the state, district and local boards must conform. The state and local boards make additional rules and regulations with which each district and school must abide.

These things taken into consideration, the principals or administrators of the various schools then make their own additions and draw up the policies and procedures which are to be followed in their particular schools. The physical education teachers then add to these their objectives and methods and from the total the policies and procedures for women's physical education in each school are formed.

Education is essential to democracy. To serve democracy education must be democratic in its organization and procedure. Educational organization must be the servant of the educative process in providing services and conditions which facilitate teaching and learning (8, p. 224).

The administrative principles must be such as to provide ample time, personnel and facilities to do whatever has to be done to achieve the purpose (22, p. 348).

Administration is not an end in itself but is a means to the end that the most effective teaching and learning possible will take place in the school (3, p. 2).

As administrative rules and regulations are so vital and affect the outcome of any program, they must be ever changing, adjustable and progressive.

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