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"“Attitudes of Secondary School Teachers Based on their gender, school management and Teaching Experience towards Importance of Yoga Education in Visakhapatnam District”"
Ch. Asha Jyothi, Research Scholar, Dr.D.Nagaraja Kumari, Assistant Professor
Department of Education A.U College of Arts and Commerce, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, AP, India.
Abstract
The article concerns the importance of yoga education in secondary schools. Yoga has been
an essential part of health and physical education that has been a necessary subject up to the
secondary school stage. Yoga practice contributes to the complete development of the child
and various studies shows that it contributes to flexibility and muscular ability and also
corrects postural defects among school children. The present study assess the statements
developed on five dimensions namely concept of yoga education, yoga and health, yoga and
memory and concentration, yoga and achievement, problems of implementation of yoga in
schools. A total of 100 prospective secondary school teachers were examined in order to
investigate the effect of gender, general qualification and school management towards
importance of yoga education. In this study the questionnaire “attitude scale to assess the
attitude” was used to collect the data from perspective teachers. There is no significant
difference between opinions of teachers based on their gender, school managementand
teaching experience towards the importance of yoga education in secondary schools of
Anakapalli Mandal of Visakhapatnam district.