Analysis of sports management curriculum for physical education majors in Kerala

The study was aimed at analysing the effectiveness of the Sports Management Curriculum for the physical education majors in Kerala. Data was collected from 300 post graduate school physical educators who had their professional preparation from various institutes in Kerala. Self-structured questionnaire was used to collect data and percentage analysis was carried out for statistical analysis. The results revealed that majority of the subjects considered Sports Management as a subject of practical importance and most of them rated the syllabus as good. Most of them learnt basic managerial skills from their seniors and colleagues and they were benefitted only a little from the syllabus. They had only very limited hours spent on practical work and teachers widely used only lecture method for teaching. More than half of the teachers had either diploma or MBA as academic qualification but most of the students did not attend any academic programmes and were unaware of professional bodies in sports management. The study concluded that the sports management curriculum for the physical education majors in Kerala is not really equipping the students with those managerial qualities that they require for their day to day professional life.