AN ANALYSIS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES DEPENDING ON A TEACHER'S AGE/ANALIZA STRATEGIJ RESEVANJA KONFLIKTNIH SITUACIJ PRI SPORTNI VZGOJI GLEDE NA STAROST UCITELJEV

The interaction between the teacher and the pupil in the process of physical education represents co-operation, interpersonal effects, communication with each other etc. The individual characteristics of teachers and pupils, different values, behaviour, personal mood, overfilled classrooms, inapprop...

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Published in:Kinesiologia slovenica 2011-05, Vol.17 (2), p.5
Main Authors: Vrbnjak, Sasa, Videmsek, Mateja, Stihec, Joze
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conflict management
Personal relationships
Physical education
Professional relationships
Schools
Secondary school students
Teaching
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Summary:The interaction between the teacher and the pupil in the process of physical education represents co-operation, interpersonal effects, communication with each other etc. The individual characteristics of teachers and pupils, different values, behaviour, personal mood, overfilled classrooms, inappropriate teaching, insufficient teaching equipment, poor material conditions and suchlike can from time to time also lead to conflict situations in the physical education process which teachers settle in different ways. With this survey we wanted to establish which conflict management strategies physical education teachers most commonly resort to, and if there are any statistically distinct differences in the chosen conflict management strategies with respect to teachers' ages (physical education teachers up to 45 years and 45 years and above). The research included 439 randomly selected physical education teachers with higher education diploma from across Slovenia. We measured the conflict management strategies (ROCI-II questionnaire - Rahim, 1983; Rahim & Magner, 2000). The data were processed with the SPSS statistical analysis software where descriptive statistical methods and an analysis of variance were used. It was established that the teachers use various approaches to resolving conflict situations. Generally speaking, they most often rely on integrating as a conflict management strategy, and least often on dominating. We established statistically significant differences in the conflict management strategies between the younger (
ISSN:1318-2269
2232-4062