How Important is Tennis Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools? The Opinion of Teachers of Physical Education in Greece

Christos Mourtzios, Ioannis Athanailidis, Vasilia Arvanitidou and Maria-Anna Mourtziou

European Journal of Sport Sciences, 2024, vol. 3, issue 1, 7-15

Abstract: In many countries around the world, tennis is taught in schools. Is Greece ready to introduce the teaching of tennis in both primary and secondary education? Physical education teachers from all over the country answered this question after first attending a seminar that would help them teach the sport of tennis in their schools. Our research had two objectives. The first objective was to evaluate the seminar by the physical education teachers, and the second objective was to find out if they think tennis can be added to the physical education curriculum at school. The results of our study for the first purpose, which was to evaluate the seminar they attended, showed that physical education teachers were very positive in their response, with a percentage of 51.3% agreed and a completely agreed percentage of 43.2%. For the second objective, if they think tennis can be added to the physical education curriculum at school, the answers showed us a high percentage of 53,4% “Agree” and 34,9% “Strongly agree.” The results of our study showed in all the responses that physical education teachers “Agree” to all the questions with a percentage of 52.3% and “Strongly agree” with a percentage of 39.1%. Only 7% selected “Neither agree nor disagree,” 0.5% selected “Disagree,” and 1.1% selected “Strongly disagree.” This showed us that almost everyone was positive about both the seminar project and the teaching of tennis in the school. So, we believe that ways should be found to implement the project, which has only profit to offer to both students and teachers.

Keywords: Physical education; primary schools; secondary schools; tennis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.24018/ejsport.2024.3.1.130

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