| （Department of Physical Education，Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology，Maoming 525000，China） Abstract: By means of questionnaire survey and such the authors investigated the present situation of physical education in 224 rural schools in the west coast region of Guangdong province, and revealed the following findings: the school physical education management system was sound basically; the number of physical education teachers met the specified requirement basically, but there was a lack of fulltime teachers; the teachers’ gender and age structures were rational, yet their educational backgrounds and titles were on the low side, their teaching workloads were heavy, their scientific research capacities were poor, and their wage incomes were low; the quality of physical education teaching was not high, the development of extracurricular sports activities needed to be further boosted; sports funds, venues and equipment were seriously insufficient. The authors put forward corresponding counter-measures against the existing problems.
Key words: school physical education；rural school；the west region of Guangdong province |
