Abstract:
The aim of every teacher is to bring about a relatively permanent change in behaviour of
learners they teach. For a teacher to be effective both the content knowledge and
pedagogical skills play a vital role in their professional. Based on these observations the
researcher deemed it necessary to assess the content knowledge and pedagogical
knowledge in physical education of mentees originally from the Special Education
Department in the University of Education Winneba. A purposive sampling technique
was used to select all mentees from the Special Education Department who took courses
in the P. E Department and therefore taught P.E during their out segment programme.
This is because this type of sampling technique remained the only choice to help obtain
the kind of data generated for the study. The researcher used purposive sampling method
to select 25 student -teachers who responded to questionnaires designed in Likert format
rating Strongly Agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree on physical
education pedagogical content knowledge. Mean and standard deviation were calculated
for the variables and inferential statistic of linear regression analyses was applied to show
the significant influence. With Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient a
significance level at 0.05 was reached with the finding that SPED mentees of the
University Of Education, Winneba show a weak correlation between PEPCK and the
other variables. The main recommendations are students who may desire to work in
special schools as PE teachers should read PE as main area of study and take special
education as their second subject. On the other hand Adapted Physical Education should
be introduced as an elective subject in the physical education department to help solve the
special need issues.
Description:
A Thesis in the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports,
Faculty of Science Education, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies,
University of Education, Winneba, in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
award of the Master of Philosophy (Physical Education) degree.