Attitude of Students, Teachers and principals Towards the Benefit of Physical Education for Health and Other subjects in Selected Primary Schools of Addis Ababa; Yeka Sub City , Ethiopia

Abstract

In Ethiopia individuals have aware that being healthy is important but not the benefit of participating in PE activities to lead healthy life style. The purpose of this study was to assess the Attitude of students, teachers and principals towards the benefit of PE for health and other subjects in selected primary Schools of Addis Ababa city administration of Yeka sub city. Descriptive survey method was designed for the purpose of the data collection. From the population of 1816 students, 177 students were selected by stratified, 12 PE teachers were selected by purposive and 6 principals were selected by availability sampling. The major variables that were evaluated in this study are attitudes of students, teachers and principals towards the benefit of PE for the development of health and the role of PE for other subject’s performance. Questionnaires with five point likert type were adopted from Joshua Taylor (2012) to examine students and teachers attitude towards the benefit of PE for health and other subjects. Interviews and focus group discussion were conducted with teachers and principals. The questionnaire was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean value and ANOVA. Interview and focus group discussion were coded, transcribed and analyzed. The major finding of this study reveals that female students had more miss understanding than males and grade eight students had more negative attitude than seventh grades towards the benefit of PE for health with difference (p<0.5)whereas PE teachers and principals had positive attitude towards the benefit of PE for health with no difference on gender and qualification variables (p>0.5).Students’ and principals had negative attitude whereas PE teachers’ had positive attitude about the benefit of PE for other subjects performance.PE activities did not implemented in relation to the development of students’ health. As result the investigator recommended that PE teachers’ create awareness among students to promote positive attitude towards the benefit of PE for health and other subjects.