Educational Values amongst Physical Education Students in Palestinian Universities

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the educational values amongst physical education students in Palestinian universities, in addition to determine the differences in the educational values according to gender and university variables. To achieve the study purposes, a questionnaire was used to collect data and was distributed to a sample consisting of (188) male and female students of physical education faculties in Palestinian universities, SPSS was used to analyze data. The results of study revealed that the education values of the students in physical education faculties was high on the domains: religious domain (75%), political domain (74.8%), social domain (72.2%), and (72%) for the scientific domain, as it was middle for the economic domain (65.6%), where the total level of education values was high and the percentage of response reached (71.8%). Furthermore, the results showed statistical significant differences according to gender variable in favor to female students, and the university variable in favor to private universities. Based on the study findings, the researcher recommended the necessity of linking student’s knowledge with the curriculum taught at the physical education faculties in order to achieve their tasks and to develop scientific and educational values.