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VOL. 8, ISSUE 4 (2023)
Attitude of teachers towards physical education
Authors
Dr. Gajanana Prabhu B, Shreenivasa K R
Abstract
Physical Education is now acquiring its new facet and its importance
has been greatly felt in enhancing the effectiveness of the education programs
in educational institutions. According to World Health Organization (2010) [8],
lack of physical activity is one of the leading risk factors of global
mortality, and increase in physical activity is seen as one of the top
priorities. In recent years, schools have been called upon to expand their
efforts to increase physical activity related opportunities for children and
adolescents. Teachers are important components of educational system. Success
of a profession is possible only through loving it. Another factor affecting
the success is the attitude of teachers towards the profession. Complying to
the recommendations of World Health Organization, Government of Karnataka has
formulated a separate curriculum in Physical Education along with Text Books
for sixth to tenth grades. The physical education teachers are teaching it
since 2011. In this context, attitude of other subject teachers towards
physical education was fest essential. Majority of the studies focused on
attitudes of children and parents towards physical education. None of the
studies were found on attitude of subject teachers on physical education. The
purpose of the present study was to investigate attitude of other subject teachers
towards physical education at high school level of Malnad region. The study
further compared attitude of Male and Female subject teachers towards physical
education. For the purpose of this study eighty-five subject teachers working
in various High Schools of Malnad region were selected. Purposive sampling was
employed to gather information on attitude towards physical education from
subject teachers working in various High Schools of Malnad region. Male (N=34)
and female (N=51) subject teachers working in various High Schools of Malnad
region were included in the study. Their age ranged between 25-55 years. These
subject teachers working during the year 2019-20 in various High Schools of
Malnad region were the subjects for the present study. General physical
education attitude scale was used to assess the subject’s attitude towards
physical education. The scale consisted of 30 statements. Each statement had
seven answers ranging from, “Very strongly agree” and “Very strongly disagree”.
The respondents made a tick (√) mark on any one of the responses that best fit
to their response. Descriptive statistics like Mean and Standard Deviation were
employed and results on mobile phone addiction was obtained. Further, for
understanding the differences in stress between male and female subjects ‘t’
test was employed. On the basis of the results of the present investigation it
can be concluded that there is No significant difference in attitude towards
physical education between male and female subject teachers of Malnad region.
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Pages:19-22
How to cite this article:
Dr. Gajanana Prabhu B, Shreenivasa K R "Attitude of teachers towards physical education". International Journal of Yoga, Physiotherapy and Physical Education, Vol 8, Issue 4, 2023, Pages 19-22
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