Perceptions of professional isolation among physical education teachers and their relationship to their reluctance to participate in the management and arbitration of school sports tournaments organized by the Department of Sports and Scouting Activities

الملخص

The research aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between the professional isolation felt by physical education teachers and their reluctance to participate in the management and arbitration of school sports tournaments held by the Sports and Scouting Activities Department after identifying the level of both their professional isolation and their level of reluctance to participate in school sports tournaments. The researcher adopted the descriptive approach using survey and correlation methods in this research. The researcher defined the community of this research as physical education teachers in schools affiliated with the Babil Education Directorate for the academic year (2023-2024), whose number is (430) teachers, representing middle, preparatory, and secondary schools for boys in Babil Governorate. Based on Thompson's law in calculating sample sizes, the researcher randomly selected (262) teachers to form the primary research sample. The researcher then divided the primary research sample into three sub-samples: the exploratory study sample, which has (12) physical education teachers; the preparation sample, which has (150) physical education teachers; and the application sample, which has (150) physical education teachers. (100) Physical Education teachers, and to collect the required data, the researcher prepared two questionnaires, the first to measure the level of perceptions of professional isolation among physical education teachers with several paragraphs amounting to (13) paragraphs, and the second to measure the level of the reluctance of physical education teachers to participate in school sports tournaments with several paragraphs amounting to (14) paragraphs. After applying the two questionnaires and obtaining the results, the researcher processed them statistically to extract the levels of the two scales. After analyzing and discussing the results, the researcher concluded a set of conclusions, which are:                                                                                                 

- Physical education teachers in schools affiliated with the Directorate of Education in Babylon have high-level perceptions about their professional isolation, whether in the schools to which they belong or the sports and scouting activity departments to which they belong.

- Physical education teachers' participation in school sports tournaments is low due to their high-level reluctance to manage and referee their matches.

- Physical education teachers' perceptions of their professional isolation were positively correlated with their reluctance to participate in managing and refereeing school sports tournaments, which means that the higher their level of professional isolation, the more reluctance they have to participate in these tournaments, and vice versa.