Impediment of Physical Education Curriculum Implementation: The Cases of Selected Catholic Mission Schools in Addis Ababa
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2014-05
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Addis Ababa university
Abstract
This study aims sought to investigate the impediment of curriculum implementing grade seven
and eight catholic mission schools in AddisAbaba.
The study was conducted on two catholic schools in AddisAbaba. To achieve the objectives of
the study both school principals and physical education teachers were selected based on their
availability and 131 students were selected through simple random sampling technique.
In- depth interviews with principals and teachers, observations for teachers as well students and
questionnaires for students; were employed to collect data for this study. The data obtained were
analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods.
The study revealed that the surveyed schools would successful in creating of cooperative
teaching learning context for physical education curricula in terms of supply of infrastructures,
instructional facilities, and material resources (physically), creating good communication
channel among school communities and providing in-service training programs for teaching
staff. That is, they attempted to invest more for successful implementation of physical education
curriculum materials.
In contrast to these facts, most of activities observed in the schools were not congruence with the
statements of curriculum materials. This is evident that principals and teachers performance with
regard to the requirements of curriculum materials were found minimal and students’ attitude of
learning physical education subject was also not as expected. In general, it was found that the
schools don’t implement the physical education curricula as intended. Attempt has been made to
identify the impediments that hinder the successful implementation of curriculum materials.
Among the factors identified: the shortage of relevant instructional material resources in the
school for grade 7 and 8 physical education subjects, students and teachers to utilize the available
school resources, absence of collaboration trend between mission schools and governmental
bodies and absence of relevant in-service training programs for teachers were found the major
challenges that hinder the effective curriculum implementation process in the surveyed schools
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Curriculum Implementation