STAVOVI TRENERA O VAŽNOSTI VLASTITIH PEDAGOŠKIH KOMPETENCIJA I ODGOJNOJ ULOZI SPORTA U RADU S DJECOM I MLADIMA
COACHES’ ATTITUDES ON THE IMPORTANCE ON THE OF THEIR OWN PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCES AND THE EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF SPORT IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: Sport as an organized activity has an educational role and encourages the overall development of children and youth, and the coach is a fundamental actor on whose pedagogical competencies depends on the success and direction of achieving the afore-defined role of sport. Therefore, this paper is aimed at exploring the attitudes of trainers about the above mentioned. The aim was to determine whether coaches, who express positive attitudes about the role of sport for children and youth, also express positive attitudes about the importance of their own pedagogical competencies inworking with children and youth. A correlation study was conducted to examine the relationship between coaches' attitudes about the importance of their own pedagogical competencies and of the educational role of sports in working with children and youth. The survey included 40 respondents from the city of Split who work with children and young people aged six to nineteen in various sports and who voluntarily completed a questionnaire with attitudes assessment scales. The results confirmed the hypothesis and showed that the increase in the level of attitudes about the educational performance of sports is positively related to attitudes about the importance of pedagogical competencies. It is also shown that the increase in the level of attitudes about the educational activities of sports is accompanied by an increase in the level of attitudes about the importance of pedagogical competencies, and vice versa.

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