| （1.School of Physical Education，Huazhong Normal University，Wuhan 430079，China；2.School of Physical Education，Yunnan University，Kunming 650091，China；3.Affiliated Elementary School，Yunnan Normal University，Kunming 650031，China） Abstract: The authors selected 114 grade 3 elementary school pupils as the testees, tested the effects of 3 water safety education modes on the water safety knowledge, belief and practice (KBP) of these pupils by using the method of design of the before and after testing of unequal control groups, and revealed the following findings: 1) after the intervention of the water safety physical education curriculum mode, the scores for various dimensions in the water safety KBP of the pupils were all significantly improved; the effect of intervention produced on the pupils in curriculum group was significantly better than the effect of intervention produced on the pupils in the control group, subject group and swimming group; 2) after the intervention of the subject education mode, except that water safety knowledge was significantly improved, other indexes were not significantly improved; 3) after the interven-tion of the swimming teaching mode, water safety knowledge and skills were somewhat improved, but not signifi-cantly improved. The findings indicate the followings: in water safety education for elementary school pupils, the 3 education modes are effective to different extents; the effect achieved by the water safety physical education cur-riculum mode is the best, followed by the effect achieved by the subject education mode, while the effect achieved by the swimming curriculum mode is the most insignificant.
Key words: school physical education；water safety physical education curriculum；lementary school pupil；KBP |
