Observing Preschool Physical Education Practices and Policies Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The covid-19 epidemic changed people live style and routines, schools and children were  effected by the covid-19 restrictions, this study was conducted during this pandemic.This study was conducted in the period of covid-19. In the months of April, and May 2022.  At the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021 there was no physical education classes they start to come back gradually on 2022.According to the new system, students must attend from one to three times a week to the school building, while maintaining an attendance rate of about 30% of the total number of students in the school per day, in order to attend some basic subject classes, conduct practical experiments in laboratories and take tests. (Gulf,2020).The participants where random schools in the state of Qatar 40 schools,  27 governmental schools and 13 international schools, 27 P.E   teachers  from  government schools  and 13 P.E teachers from independent schools.The questionnaire Go NAPP SAC (Ward. Et al, 2014) the questionnaire is built to assess children physical activity, from the University of North Carolina.The result was that the physical education was infected intensely in the period of the covid -19 pandemic, at the beginning of the pandemic period there were no physical education classes then slowly they started to come back the physical education  classes.

Keywords: Covid-19 Pandemic, Physical Education, Pre-school, School Family Relationship

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-4-06

Publication date: February 28^th 2023