ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sports Act. Living

Sec. Sports Management, Marketing, and Economics

Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1582778

This article is part of the Research TopicInnovation, Technology and Sustainability in Sport Management and EducationView all articles

Physical Education and School Sport in Emerging Nations: A Comparison of Indonesia and Türkiye

Provisionally accepted
AMUNG MA’MUNAMUNG MA’MUN1Cem TinazCem Tinaz2*Anira AniraAnira Anira1Syarifatunnisa SyarifatunnisaSyarifatunnisa Syarifatunnisa1Ömer Onur HertemÖmer Onur Hertem3Agus MahendraAgus Mahendra1Tite JuliantineTite Juliantine1
  • 1Department of Sport Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
  • 2The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 3Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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This study investigates the physical education (PE) and school sport policies in Turkey (Türkiye) and Indonesia, focusing on the objectives and applicability of curriculum, profile of the schools, in-class sport activities, available resources for PE and in school sport activities, attitudes of the directors and students, extracurricular activities and connections with sports clubs. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with the participants to collect data. Participants included fifteen teachers from Türkiye and fifteen Indonesian physical education teachers who work at all levels of public and private education. The study's findings in Indonesia and Türkiye indicate the possibility that the government can help schools build gyms or sports facilities for physical education. Extracurricular activities and boosting the number of physical education teachers in public schools are needed to implement the curriculum effectively. Both countries need to implement the idea of club connections and after-school activities in the meantime.

Keywords: Physical Education, school sport, Emerging nations, Curriculum, out-ofschool hours activities

Received: 24 Feb 2025; Accepted: 16 May 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 MA’MUN, Tinaz, Anira, Syarifatunnisa, Hertem, Mahendra and Juliantine. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Cem Tinaz, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands

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