This study aimed to understand how attitudes toward alienated students, the attitudes of the alienated students themselves, and changes in both affect the school lives of alienated students. The cooperative learning model in physical education was used for this purpose. For this study, A class, an elementary school class with an alienated student, was selected, and data were collected through interviews and narrative surveys. The inductive categorical analysis method (Spradley, 1980) was used for data analysis.
The alienated student’s adaptation to elementary school life, based on the cooperative learning model in physical education, was examined from two perspectives: the attitudes of neighboring students toward the alienated student and the attitude of the alienated student. Each of these attitudes was found to change during lessons and school life. The attitudes of neighboring students toward the alienated student during lessons showed the traits of “respecting opinions,” “praise,” and “role.” In school life, they showed “focus on advantages,” “speaking kindly,” and “playing together.” The attitudes of the alienated student in lessons showed “concentration,” “confidently speaking,” and “role performance.” In school life, they showed “approach,” “do it yourself,” and “dreaming of a happy school life.”