A Study on Physical Education Teachers’ Training Programme on Development of Attitude towards Physical Education

Abstract

Perspectives: Physical education takes a crucial role in education. Truly to educate our future generation and to help them to lead healthy and prosperous life, side by side with the general education physical education in its augmented total quality is to be introduced from early school level. Now, to maintain total quality of physical education we have to take scientific footing to discern the attitude of the students as well as the teachers of Secondary and Higher Secondary schools towards physical education as a preliminary step. This one was a longitudinal study carried out through quasi-experimental research design. A sample of 128 B.P.Ed students was chosen from different teacher education institutions of West Bengal by stratified random sampling technique The Attitudes toward Physical Education Scale was administered on the sample in three different phases-at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the session. From the Paired Samples "t"-test it was observed that there was statistically significant increase in the mean of the attitude scores from the 1 st phase (M = 98.41) to the 2 nd phase of testing (M = 102.01) and again to the 3 rd phase of testing (M = 105.24).