Attitude of public and private school students and teachers towards physical education

Abstract

Physical Education nowadays is considered as an important and integral part of general education which aims at the harmonious development of the man. But, in practice and from a functional point of view, it has not yet received due recognition or status as an academic subject. Many reasons could be attributed to this state of affair. The purpose of the study is to determine the attitude towards the physical education and sports of public and private school teachers and students (considered as subjects) and to find-out their opinions through a questionnaire. It was hypotheses that the participants of private and public school students will not have any changes in attitude towards Physical Education and Sports but in the category of teachers there will be a significant difference in attitude towards physical education. The investigator prepared a questionnaire comprising of 30 statements which covered 5 aspects i.e. Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional and General Recreational aspects of Physical Education. The process of finalization of questionnaire was completed with the help of experts of the field. In total, 180 questionnaires were filled from 6 schools; 3 private and 3 public schools. That of 20students and 10 teachers where selected as the subject, the scholar has 180 complete questionnaires without any ambiguity has been considered for the present study.