Názory učiteľov východoslovenského regiónu primárneho stupňa vzdelávania na tematické celky z predmetu telesná a športová výchova
Opinions of Primary Education Teachers from Eastern Slovakia on Thematic Units in Subject Physical Education

Summary/Abstract: Physical education can be a subject of great importance when thinking about healthy future of our kids. Physical development and basics of physical movements taught in physical education classes are transferred from childhood to adulthood. The aim of our study was to find out and compare opinions of primary education teachers from rural and urban schools on teaching various thematic units in their physical education classes. The survey was conducted in the form of a questionnaire in 2019 and 2020. We quantified the results using the percentage of the aspect of teachers in urban and rural schools, supplemented by statistical analysis using the χ2 test at p < 0.01 and p < 0.05. We also evaluated mutual correlations when dealing with the popularity or unpopularity and complexity of thematic units. The analysis of the answers of 341 teachers showed that the most popular thematic unit for both rural and urban teachers is the unit called manipulation, preparation, and sports games. Teachers from rural schools consider psychomotor and health-oriented exercises to be the least popular unit of teaching, but teachers from urban schools had a different opinion, for them the least popular thematic unit is musical movement and dance activities. In one of our questions, we asked teachers to choose which thematic unit they consider to be most or least demanding. Both rural (48.94%) and urban (44%) school teachers consider thematic unit psychomotor and health-oriented exercises to be the most demanding in terms of teaching. As for the least demanding thematic unit, both rural and urban consider it to be basic movement skills.

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