A sociological inquiry regarding the use of dynamic games to learn volleyball – middle school

Abstract

An important place in the sports system for children and teenagers has to be given to teaching and consolidating playing volleyball. Special care must be granted to intertwining the means and methods of training with educational ones therefor creating a type of middle school graduate that fulfills a set of predetermined requirements. As a result, knowing the age specific peculiarities of the students from a physiological, morphological, psychological point of view as well as the results of training using movement games should contribute to fulfilling the objectives of learning volleyball in middle school. By using movement games in teaching the technics specific to volleyball one goes outside the perimeter of the non-heuristic methods and methodologies (defining, scheduled training, systematization). They allow a greater independence of action for the participants, although the complex character of the activity is obvious. There are general rules that determine the behavior of the participants but they do not strictly set their actions.