Shri Prbhu Pratibha: Awareness on Yoga Education among Higher Secondary Students

Dr. S. K. Panneer Selvam

Abstract

Education is a process of human empowerment for the achievement of better and higher quality of life. Yoga is one of the gifts of our rich heritage. Dr. Radhakrishnan said, “Yoga is a way of life”. It is a system that makes us cultured human beings. The value of yoga is no doubt immeasurable, and now- a- days yogic training is being more and more recognized especially as India’s unique contribution to physical Education activities, yoga is a scientific and systematic discophile for a successful organization of all the energies and faculties of internal human being with a view to attaining the highest caustic communion with the cosmic reality of god. Yogic practices helped to deal with delinquency and criminal behavior and improved academic performance. Yoga was helpful to deal with headache, meditation intake and symptoms of stress perception. Yoga helped to solve the confusion between self-ideal disparity and ideal self. Yoga helped to decrease anxiety level in the gymnastic group. It helped to improve the mental health and emotional maturity of adolescent girl’s hatha yoga improved and fastened a psychophysical balance. Yoga and meditation enhance self-esteem, self-disclosure, improves emotional intelligence and enhances social adjustment of jail inmates, and helped to decrease depression. Yogi stages are practices and followed in life, virtues like mortality, morally sound conduct and good character are developed in man.

Key Words: human being-stress perception-confusion -psychophysical balance-social adjustment- decrease depression.

Introduction:- Broadly speaking, education refers to any act or experience that has a formative effect on the personality of an individual. The role of Education is to make growth and development in the individual’s life. It includes that all the influence which acts upon an individual during his passage from cradle to grave. In other words Education is life and life is Education. It is not giving of facts and detain alone, but it is a man making process.

Yoga:- Yoga is one of the gifts of our rich heritage. Dr. Radhakrishnan said, “Yoga is a way of life”. It is a system that makes us cultured human beings. The value of yoga is not doubt immeasurable, and now – a – days yogic training is being more and more recognized especially as India’s unique contribution to physical Education activities, yoga is a scientific and systematic discophile for a successful organization of all the energies and faculties of internal human being with a view to attaining the highest caustic communion with the cosmic reality of god. Yoga is an ancient practice combining meditation with training the body which originated in India five thousand year ago.

The main aim of yoga is integrating the body mind and thoughts, so as to work for good ends. In our modern life style the human body is easily affected by many diseases, mostly due to our food habits, daily routines, and also because of air and water pollution, etc. through systematic and regular yoga practices our body may be made healthier and its resistance power to fight against the diseases could be enhanced mind gets sharpened, and the concentration and memory power may be developed.

Need For The Study:- It is vital to effectively educated man regarding his relationship to the total environment, the relationship which is based on than on superior-subordinate relationship. Hence major goals of yoga education should be to help individuals acquire.

1. The basic responsibility of the society and government to work for solving yoga problems.

2. Development of yoga ethics which will motive people to participate in the decision-making process and to demand protection of the yoga so as to advance human welfare and dignity.

Statement of the Problem:-Yoga awareness is of keeping the importance of keeping the health clean and mind relaxation. So the study focuses on the topic entitled “A study higher secondary school students at Namakkal Educational District

Higher Secondary Students:- After the completion of the high school level of education, students enter the higher secondary level. (i.e) in standard XI in higher secondary school. New they attain the adolescence stage as teenagers.

Namakkal District:- Since Namakkal is a growing busionalized and educational town it is apt for the study.

Objectives of the Study:-

The following objectives were formulated for the present study.

o To find out the yoga awareness of higher secondary school students in Namakkal Educational District.

o To find out the significance difference in the yoga awareness of Boys and girls (gender)

o Locality of the student (Rural & Urban)

o Types of the school (Government & Metric)

o Parent’s occupation (Government & Private)

o Subjects. (Arts & science)

Hypothesis of the Study

o There is no significant difference between boys and girls towards awareness on yoga.

o There is no significant difference between rural boys and girls towards awareness on yoga.

o There is no significant difference between urban boys and girls towards awareness on yoga.

o There is no significant difference between Government school boys and girls towards awareness on yoga.

Scope of the Study:- The topic is an investigation of the awareness of yoga among higher secondary students at Namakkal District .this is the survey study. the investigation attempt to know the awareness on yoga among higher secondary school students at Namakkal District.

Delimittation of the Study:-

The study has been limited to NamakkaL District only.
The study has been restricted to the higher secondary school students only.
This study has been restricted to the 11th standard students only.
This study adopted survey method using questionnaires to collect data from respondents.
A purposive stratified random sample was used to choose the subject to be included in the study.

Analogy:- Out of total 41 studies identified, the investigator found all studies conducted in India. Majority of the studies belonged to survey studies and few of them are experimental studies. Mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test where the statistical techniques followed in majority of the study.

Methodology of the Study:- The Methodology followed in the present study is described in this Study. The present study is a Normative Survey Research which aimed to measures the Awareness on Yoga among Higher Secondary Students.

Design of the Study:- A research design however, is not a highly specific plan to be followed without direction. Rather, it is series of guideposts to keep right direction. Thus, research design is the process of planning a research, choosing methods & procedures that can be expected to yield meaningful and interpretable results.

TABLE: 1

SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF THE RESEARCH DESIGN

S.NO	TYPE	SOURCES
1.	Nature of the research	Normative Survey Research
2.	Tools Developed	Awareness on Yoga among H.S. Students.
3.	Variables	Higher Secondary Students
4.	Demographic Variables	Students-1.Gender 2.Types of School 3.Locality,4.Parents&Occupation5.Subject
5.	Sampling Technique	Stratified Random Sampling Technique.
6.	Size of the Sample	Students – 150 = Boys -73, Girls-77
7.	Statistical Techniques used	Mean, Standard Deviation, ‘t’ test

The present study belongs to Normative Survey Research. The Demographic Variables used are Gender, Type of Schools, Locality, Parents Occupation, Subjects.

TOOLS USED FOR THE STUDY

To access the Factors Influencing the Yoga Education among Higher Secondary Students in Namakkal District with three types of Four Point Rating Scale was developed under the Similar Statements. In the type of tools, with the options such as Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree and Strongly Disagree were utilized.

PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF THE TOOL

The investigator being a Higher Secondary Students was going on to write appropriate statements related to the objectives of the study.

PILOT STUDY

Finally the tool was consists of 50 statements, the above the tools were used to a study on finding the Awareness on Yoga Education among Higher Secondary Students.

TABLE: 2 STUDENTS OPIONNAIRE: FACTORS INFLUENCING

S.NO	STUDENTS		TOTAL
1.	POSITIVE ITEMS	NEGATIVE ITEMS	50
1.	1,2,4,6,8,10,12,13,14,17,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,35,36,40,41,43,45,47,4849,50.	3,5,7,9,11,16,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,37,38,39,42,44,46.	50
	30	20	50

The above table 3.2 shows the student opionnairre to access the influencing factor for the student's awareness of special education this tool consists of 4 point scale with 30 positive and 20 negative statements.

RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY

Reliability applies to a measure when similar results are obtained over time and across situations. It should be noted that reliability is a necessary condition for algidity, but a reliable instrument may not be valid.

PERSONAL DATA SHEET

To know the background of the Students, The investigator used personal data sheets along with the Developed Questionnaires. It asked for details of Gender, type of School, Locality, Parents Occupation and Subjected.

SIZE OF THE SAMPLE

There are so many School in Namakkal district among that the investigator select the Two School in random sampling method the name of the Schools as follows.

1. N.S.A.U G. Hr. Sec. School at Namakkal.

2. Trinity Matriculation Hr. Sec. School at Namakkal.

From the above areas the investigator has taken from this study.

Table: 3 List of Boys and Girls samples

S.NO	Category	Students
1.	Boys	73
2.	Girls	77
Total		150

The present study is done by Normative Survey Method. The Stratified Random Sampling Technique is followed. The size of the sampling was 150Students only

DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

Broadly speaking, any study is impossible without limitation .Research studies is general will have delimitation due to many factors .This study too has some delimitations. It is the responsibility to the researches to see that the study is contacted with maximum care in ordered to be reliable.

However, the following delimitations were unavoidable in the present study,

1. The study has been limited to Namakkal District only.

2. The study has been restricted to the Higher Secondary Students only.

3. The study has been restricted to the XI th Std Student Only.

4. This study adopted survey method using questionnaires to collect data from respondents.

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

Any research work could be meaningful when the data were analyzed and interpreted properly. Therefore the researcher has given much important to this part. The data collected from the sample analyzed and interpreted in the following heads.

Descriptive analysis
Differential analysis

DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS

It includes comparison of measures of central tendency such as the mean and the measures of variability such as standard deviation. The calculated values are used to describe the properties of the different sub-samples.

DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS

It contains the determinations of the statistical significance of the difference between references to selected variables. It contains ’t ' test. A ’t ' test is a numerical procedure that takes into accounts the difference between the means of the sample present in the scores.

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE

Experimenters and research workers choose several arbitrary standards for their convenience. These arbitrary standards are called level of significance. Most commonly used level of significance is 0.01 and 0.05 level. For the present investigation, the researcher has used 0.05 levels as significance to analyze the existence of various hypotheses. Table: 4

Significant difference between boys and girls towards awareness on yoga

S. n	Variables	N	Mean	Standard deviation	‘t’ Value	Significant Level of 0. 05
1	Boys	77	71.31	5.68	2.13*	1. 97
2	Girls	73	74.03	8.11	2.13*	1. 97