Female Students’ Participation In Physical Education Practical Classes in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region: The Case of Secondary Schools of Kaffa Zone
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2017-09-30
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Addis ababa University
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The main purpose of the study was to identify the female students’ participation in Physical education practical classes: the case of general secondary schools of kaffa zone. In the zone secondary schools, female students have low participation in physical education practical classes. The low participation of female students initiated the researcher to conduct the research. To this end, descriptive survey method was employed. To collect the necessary data for the study observation, interview and questionnaires were used. Questionnaire, interview and observation were employed as the main data collecting tools. Then, the collected data through Classroom observations and interviews were analyzed using qualitatively and the questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively. The findings showed that the school teachers’ did not give attention toward female students about the relation of health and practical exercise activities. Furthermore, the school teachers’ did not accustom to encourage students and generate practical activities. They did not select enjoyable and suitable tasks for the female students. Cultivating self-esteem in students can help to lead them to achievement because feeling of high self-esteem can lead to successful academic performance especially females’ students. Hence females’ students have to be motivated and be given moral in every angle in the society by providing support such as sport materials, preparing suitable clothes changing rooms and sport fields as well as enjoyable and suitable tasks. Hence, it is recommended that depending on the results of findings, concerned bodies such as parents, teachers, participants and woreda educational bureau, etc should work together to make female students more active on practical tasks. To give equal opportunity and access in practical physical education tasks with their male counterparts, to exert maximum effort to work closely with the community to provide different services for female students, increasing the number of female physical education role model, teachers to encourage and participate female students, to involve teachers, to overcome the problems that affect female students from participating in physical education activities through awareness, to give regular counseling for female students on the bases of their performance should be done.
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Identify the female students’ participation in Physical education practical classes