Assistant Professor, S. G. G. S. College, Chandigarh, India
Online published on 23 December, 2013.
Sports coaching and teaching skills are a psycho-social activity. As its heart lies in a complex interaction between physical education teacher, coach and athlete played out within the context of sport, which itself a socio- psychological defined set of practices. In this ground physical educationalists and coaches argue that an understanding of socio- psychological concepts can help us better grasp the interactive nature of educating, coaching and consequently assist in demystifying the mythical ‘art’ of the activity.The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differentials related to surface acting among physical Education teachers and coaches.For this investigator has collected the data from 240 subjects (Physical Education teachers and coaches) of both the gender.The tabulation of data was done by using ANOVA (2X2) and t –test to find out the significance and directions of differences.The findings of the present study revealed significant differences among almost all the work class groups of teachers and coaches except male teachers and female coaches.However,female teachers had the higher mean score suggesting higher on surface acting.