The practicibality of physical education and sport course in city-centers of East Anatolian Region, the problems of the physical education teachers and their effects on students attitudes

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the facilities and equipments that are necessary for teaching physical education and sports at primary and secondary schools in Eastern Anatolian city centers and to determine the problems of physical education teachers and their effects on attitudes of studens towards physical education. The universe of the survey consists of 522 physical education teachers who work at primary and secondary schools in Eastern Anatolian city-centers in 2008-2009 and 216.000 students in these schools. The sampling of the survey includes teachers (277) and students (5825) at the schools in Eastern Anatolian city-centers (Ağrı, Erzincan, Ardahan, Bingöl, Elazığ, Muş, Malatya, Erzurum, Kars, Iğdır).It has been benefited from three different data gathering instruments for the acquisiton of the data. These instuments are the form of designation of teachers problems, the questionnare of attitude toward physical education lesson, and the form of designation of school equipments. The data obtained from questionnares applied on the groups has been evaluated by SPSS for Windows statistic programme. Statistical test were used analysis of chi-square, one-way variance, the test of LSD Post Hoc. The significance level of p=0.05 is taken into consideration during the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data.According to results of the study: 53% of the schools in the city-centers had insufficient sport equipments and 78% of them did not have gyms. 71% of the Physical Education Teachers claimed that course hours per week was inadequate, 71% of the Physical Education Teachers stated that they had problems during the practice of the lesson due to inconvenient climatic conditions of the region. Although there was unfavourable socio-cultural conditions, it had been observed that 98% of the female students attended physical education and sport courses.