AN INVESTIGATION INTO PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS FACILITES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Education is not only learning, but also it is exercise and development of mental facilities. In common parlance by education we understand a school education. In the ancient times, by education was meant self-realization and self-illumination. The Physical education in general, plays a prominent role in all programmes of education as an integral growth of the individual, since its functions cannot be selected by any other part of the school curriculum. It is for this reason that all school authorities have to provide opportunities to develop leadership qualities and facilities for participation in activities that will help pupils to achieve these objective that are valuable in life. The word physical refers to body and indicates bodily characteristics such as strength, speed endurance, flexibility, health, coordination and performance. It generally contrasts the body with the mind. The term education when used in conjunction with physical, refers to a process of education that develops the human body especially fitness and movement skills. In ancient Greek, the individual was imparted education for political, mental, physical moral aesthetics. The objectives of the study were to find the difference between the mean scores an awareness of art and craft among B.Ed. trainees in their awareness on the basis of gender, board, medium , type of ownership and habitation . The investigator used survey method. The sample constituted of 231 secondary schools in Jharkhand state. The self constructed and validated questionnaire for Physical Education and Sports Facilities for Secondary School was used and the data was analyzed by arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t- test. The findings of the study show that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of secondary school students in their physical education and sports facilities in the school on the basis of medium of instructions, area of habitation and type of ownership of the institutions.