The sportization of the physical education national curriculum in the pictures of secondary school textbooks

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to know the physical activity that are showed in the pictures of textbooks about Physical Education for the Secondary Obligatory Education and to set up if there is a vision sport curriculum in the images. It is carried out a fundamentally descriptive study that uses the content analysis as the central technique of this investigation. The sample is formed by a total of 242 pictures (99 published in the book of text of Physical Education of Secundary Obligatory Education from “Paidotribo” Editorial and the other 143 pictures come from “Anaya” Editorial). Firstly, an analysis instrument is developed for the images that are object of this study, whose construction process consists of two show tests, two consultations to some experts and the triangulation with three observers. The results show that sports enjoy preferential treatment compared to other physical activity. Competition, sports sites and high performance are amply represented. However, the physical activities tailored to the people with “special educational needs” appear very little.