The Analysis of Editors’ Attitudes towards Physical Activities in Farsi Textbooks of the First, Second and Third Grades of Primary Schools

Kephart, Delackato and Heb theories show the importance of physical activities in cognitive and mental growth. Physical activities prepare one's physical and mental systems to learn. It seems that these theories can be used to publish textbooks (Farsi) for students, considering educational principles and the physical activity status. This study aimed to describe and analyze editors’ attitudes towards physical education in Farsi textbooks of the first, second and third grades of primary schools. The statistical samples of the textbooks were “Bekhanim” and “Benevisim” for each grade including six textbooks, totally 132 subjects, and 860 pages. The books were surveyed word to word, line to line and picture to picture by the researcher-made check lists. ?2 non-parametric statistic was used to analyze the data. Results showed that editors had more positive attitudes towards physical activities in all three grades and the positive attitudes increased from the first to the third grade. Sport variables and their different kinds in third-grade books and movement pictures in the second- and third-grade books met 100% positive attitudes. The variables were given consideration in all books, but consistency and increase were not observed.