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This study explores male students’ experiences in physical education in an urban secondary high school in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of body habitus, social, and physical capital, the purpose of this qualitative case study is to develop a better understanding of Saudi youth body dispositions that influence their experiences in physical education. The paper reports upon data generated by semi-structured interviews with 27 male students between the ages of 15 and 20, all of whom attended one public secondary school in Makkah during the fall of 2012. The PE teacher and the school director were also interviewed. The study emphasizes that the early childhood experiences in particular the socialization process within the family and among neighbourhood friends is important in shaping their body habitus. The study reveals that students coming to the PE class embodied different social practices and attitudes that reflect their family’s social and material conditions. In addition, family and peers influences on students’ PE participation intersected with other conditions such as institutional barriers (i.e. lack of funding, PE equipment, changing and showering rooms) and the PE teacher’s pedagogical approach. The study indicates that the more initial support students receive from their social networks in physical activity, the more they actively participate in the PE class. Students with high physical body skills have a high level of participation in PE while those with low physical body skills have a low level of participation, some then being marginalized. Hygiene is another issue that concerns some students in ways that prevents them from participation in PE. Surprisingly, the Saudi adult masculine identity associated with traditional clothing (thawb) is also a condition that influences student PE participation.

The purpose of the study was: 1) To describe the similarities and differences in aims of detached work approaches between Vancouver and other major North American centres. 2) To analyze the attempted fulfillment of the goals of the detached work program of the Boys Clubs of Vancouver. 3) To suggest the formulation of data gathering tools that would provide the Boys Clubs of Vancouver with more accurate and researchable information for future inquiries. Questionnaires were formulated for: 1) The organization administrators in the areas where detached work was initiated 2) The youths with whom the detached worker made contact. 3) Data was provided by the Boys Club describing the pre- and post-orientation program which they offered to their line detached workers. A third set of data regarding line worker perceptions of their training and role was obtained by us in February 1967 using the same tool as the. Boys Club for their documentation. We used the above data tools to attempt to determine the following: 1) The influence of the detached worker on delinquency rates, family situations educational factors, peer group and.authority relationships and leisure time activities. 2) The amount of neighbourhood organization involvement in the detached work program. 3) The workers perception of their role and any discrepancies from the prescribed role formulated by the sponsoring agency. Provisional findings are as follows: 1) More youths increased their delinquent activities than decreased their delin- quent activities while associating with the detached worker. 2) No work was done with the families of the involved teens. 3) Patterns of leisure-time activities were significantly influenced by the detached worker's presence. 4) The number of referrals that agencies stated they wanted from the detached work program was significantly higher (50% yes 25% no) than actually handled (6% yes 75% no). There was a similar trend in the number of referrals wanted and handled by the detached work program (36% wanted referrals 19% actual referrals). 5) 50% of the organizations contacted stated they could take a more active role in the detached work program largely in the area of use of facilities. 6) Observations and conclusions in the area of the workers' perception of his role (#3 page 2) were totally subjective and largely without statistical reliability. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

M.Ed. (Psychology of Education) / Because of its prevalence, depression has been described as a common cold in communities all over the world. Thus, the primary purpose of this research study was to provide guidelines and support to help late adolescent boys suffering from non-clinical depression. The objective of this research had been successfully achieved. The late adolescent boys who were interviewed were identified by their educators and their peers as non-clinical depressed. The data were collected by means of observation and phenomenological interviews. The researcher followed a qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual method. In the second chapter the researcher describes the research design and method of the research. The approach to data collection, analysis and report writing to achieve the goal of this research study are also indicated. The third chapter deals with the phenomenological interviews that were conducted and the central themes that have been identified and categorised. The fourth chapter indicates guidelines to help and support late adolescent boys suffering from non-clinical depression. The research ensured trustworthiness to the participants during the research process. The researcher gained the confidence of the participants by spending time with them informally. The researcher ensured credibility of the research study by audio-taping the interviews conducted with the participants. Thereafter, the independent coder was given the transcribed interviews. Thereafter a consensus discussion was held with the independent coder. The researcher ensured that the research study was credible, transferable, dependable and confirmable. Ethical measures were also applied throughout the research. The researcher ensured that the participants would not be harmed, either physical or emotionally. The researcher ensured the participants of their anonymity. He did this by giving the participants pseudonyms and he made sure that the setting was not identifiable. Ethical measures were also applied throughout the research. The researcher ensured that the participants would not be harmed, either physical or emotionally. The researcher ensured the participants of their anonymity. He did this by giving the participants pseudonyms and he made sure that the setting was not identifiable. The participants were also informed about the advantages and disadvantages of participating in the research. The researcher received informed consent from the parents of the participants and from the principals of the schools where some of the interviews were conducted. He also obtained assent from the participants. All participants were informed about their privacy, benefits, withdrawal and the procedure to be followed. The researcher found late adolescent boys experience positive and negative challenges concerning non-clinical depression. They also experience role conflict related to their home circumstances and that conversation with others help keep depression at bay. The researcher found that the causes of nonclinical depression of late adolescent boys are poor family relationships and dysfunctional families. Guidelines were deducted from these results.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intramural sports program at Schreiner Institute, Kerrville, Texas, for the school year, 1947-48, to determine its adequacy in meeting the aims and objectives of a reorganized program of intramural sports set up in the school at the beginning of the year, 1947-48. Attention was directed to the special need for the program, to its aims and objectives, to its plan of procedure, and to the outcomes at the end of the year.

The problem of this study is to determine if there are fictional books usable by teachers in helping preadolescent boys solve their problems of adjustment. The problem involves the analyses of twenty-five fiction books taken from those books listed by Virginia Bryson Blair in her study, "Directed Reading through the Library for Improving the Social Adjustment of Older Children."

Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) ---University of Limpopo, 2017 / The aim of this study was to determine the notions of manhood by adolescent African boys in Ngove Village, Limpopo Province. The study sought to describe what it means to be a man according to African boys in a rural community. The study also described critical routes through which African boys transit from boyhood to manhood. The qualitative method was used. The sample consisted of 10 participants from Ngove Village, and was selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected through individual semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Data was analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). Common themes around what it means to be a man were clearly delineated. Findings of this study suggest that manhood is a status that is earned when a male person possesses specific qualities that one’s community and culture consider to be in keeping with being a man. The findings of this study further suggested that from early childhood, African boys experience social pressure that compels them into channeling their behaviours into standards set by the community. Meanwhile it is maintained that the male gender is the primary element of manhood, it is strongly emphasised that the male person will need to display his manhood behaviourally.

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of the use of the vertical peg board on the performance of the pull-ups by boys in grades five and six in an elementary school in the North Texas area.

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LEGIO ANGELICA - HISTORY AND INSPIRATION FOR EDUCATION OF ALTAR BOYS. Main focus of this master thesis is on altar boys education in Legio Angelica. This association was founded in 1929 by a Benedictine priest Method Klement (1889-1979). It existed until 1948 and gave a number of personalities to the Church in Czechoslovakia. First the thesis briefly describes liturgical and scout movement, which had a significant impact on the organization. Furthermore it presents: the history of Legio Angelica with regard to the life stories of its directors, the functioning of the association, the magazine Legio Angelica (which is the main source of the work) and other themes from the associations history. The principal part of the thesis are the third chapter which reflects the educational objectives in Legio Angelica and the fourth chapter that deals with the particular tools of this education. Eventually the author returns to the scouting which has turned into interesting enrichment of the association. Keywords Legio Angelica, Fr. Method Klement, altar boys, education, catholic scouting