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

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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

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