Opinions of Teachers from the Central Slovak Region on Teaching Sports Games at Elementary Schools

Autor/inn/en	Nemec, Miroslav; Adamcak, Stefan; Michal, Jiri; Bartik, Pavol
Titel	Opinions of Teachers from the Central Slovak Region on Teaching Sports Games at Elementary Schools
Quelle	In: European Journal of Contemporary Education, 8 (2019) 1, S.157-166 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2305-6746
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Elementary School Teachers; Physical Education Teachers; Athletics; Games; Gender Differences; Preferences; Team Sports; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Slovakia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Physical education; Physical training; Sportlehrer; Leichtathletik; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Geschlechterkonflikt; Mannschaftssport; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Slowakei
Abstract	This study analyses the opinions of male and female teachers of Physical and Sport Education in the 264 elementary schools from the Central Slovak Region (n = 507, 257 female teachers and 250 male teachers) on the popularity of teaching the sports games thematic unit. These opinions were collected and analysed by questionnaire survey during the school year 2016-2017. Differences of opinions were evaluated from the aspects of gender (male teacher and female teacher) and location (city and countryside). In general, it has been shown that all respondents prefer collective sports, whether in their leisure time or during the class. Artistic gymnastics was ranked as the least popular sport. Several other studies have confirmed that male teachers prefer football while female teachers prefer teaching volleyball. Interestingly, floorball was ranked as the second most popular sport and was ahead of more traditional sports games like basketball. Female teachers firmly refer to football as the least favoured sports game taught in class. The total number of between 11 and 16 hours allocated to the sports games thematic unit is an important finding as well. From the gender aspect, the variance between female and male teachers' answers was statistically significant in terms of popularity and unpopularity of teaching individual types of sports games (p < 0.01). From the location aspect, the statistically significant variance at the level of significance was observed only in the female teachers' answers (p < 0.01) concerning favouring of a popular thematic unit and unpopularity of teaching specific types of sports games. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01