Introduction

Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Education is devoted to preparing skilled and trained human resources in different fields. Under the faculty of Education, there are different instructional departments. Department of Physical Education is one of them. This department was established in 2074 BS. Physical Education aims to prepare trained and skilled human resources that can contribute to the field of Sport Science teaching. This department aims at delivering quality education to our students.  There is increasing demand for trained and dynamic physical education experts in the country. This department is trying to meet the demand of the nation. The graduates of physical education are employed in Tribhuvan University affiliated community and private campuses and different NGOs, INGOs and government sectors throughout the country. Apart from daily teaching activities, the department conducts seminars, workshops and teacher training programs to expand the horizon of knowledge and skills of physical education teachers.

Faculty members
1. Shailandra Chilwal, Lecturer [Head]

2. Pashupati Adhikari, Professor

3. Suresh Jang Shahi, Associate Professor

4. Yadav Acharya, Lecturer 

Past Faculty Members

Prof. Ram Krishna Maharjan, PhD    

Prof. Hum Bahadur Baruwal, PhD 

Prof. Lokendra Sherchan, PhD

Prof. Shanta Bahadur Shrestha.

 Courses Offered

First Semester

P. Ed. 515 Advanced Physical Education

P. Ed .516 Sports Psychology

P. Ed. 517 Advanced Skills Development in Athletics and Volleyball

P. Ed. 518 Ball Games

Second Semester

P. Ed.525 Exercise Physiology and sports medicine

P. Ed.526 Training, Coaching, and Officiating

P. Ed.528 Management of Games and Sport

P. Ed. 529 Raket Games and Field Games

Third Semester

P.  Ed. 535 Project Meet in Physical Education and Games

P.  Ed. 537 Kinesiology and Biomechanics

P. Ed. 538 Research and Evaluation

P. Ed. 539 Cricket

 Fourth Semester

Ed. 442 Teaching Practice

Ed. 544 Thesis Writing

P. Ed. 546 History of Physical Education and Games

P.  Ed. 547 Sociology of Sports

Course Description

Course Title: P. Ed. 515 Advanced Physical Education

This course is designed to provide students with a sound foundation of the history, current developments, and future challenges of physical education and its related field. The underlying principles, philosophy, careers, and procedures in the field of physical education and sports will also be dealt with in this course.

Course Title: P. Ed. 516 Sports Psychology

This course is designed to give basic concepts and knowledge of sports psychology to the students. It intends to give knowledge, skills, and strategies of sports psychology and its principles, theories, and laws applied to practice physical activities and sports fields. This course aims to motivate and encourage the students to apply psychological and behavioral theories and laws ineffective learning different sports skills. This course also intends to equip the students with the skills and approaches to handle the psychological problems of the disabled especially in physical education and sports areas.

Course Title: P. Ed. 517 Advanced Skills Development in Athletics and Volleyball

This course is designed to develop advanced skills and apply game strategies in volleyball and athletics by the students. The main intention of this course is to apply advanced skills, strategies, scientific principles, and laws in their respective fields, so that the students will be able to demonstrate skills properly, apply related strategies and laws in game situations as well as officiate respective tournaments in a dignified manner.

Course Title: P. Ed. 518 Ball Games

This course is designed and developed to develop advanced skills, and apply game strategies in Basketball, Football, Handball, or Netball. This course also intends to impart practical experiences by applying related principles in basketball, football, handball, and netball.  The students have to choose any two games from this course where they are required to develop specific notes on their respective games. The main intention of this course is to apply advanced skills, strategies, scientific principles, and laws in their respective fields, so that the prospective teachers will be able to demonstrate skills properly, apply related strategies and laws in game situations as well officiate respective tournaments in a dignified manner.

Course Title: P. Ed. 525 Exercise Physiology and Sports medicine

This course has been designed with the purpose to equip students with the basic and advanced concepts, knowledge, and approaches of sports medicine and exercise physiology. Prevention of sports injuries, a balanced diet for athletes, and doping in physical activity and sports are the key issues and aspects of sports medicine that intend to develop necessary knowledge and skills of sports medicine among the prospective students. In this subject, exercise physiology, the effects of exercise on different types of muscles and human body systems as well as the relation between exercise and human health are dealt with.

Course Title: P. Ed. 526 Training, Coaching, and Officiating

This course is designed to give students the advanced knowledge, ideas, and strategies of training, coaching, and officiating in sports. It is intended to acquaint students with underlying rules, methods, and strategies of training and scientific principles applied to different sports training. This course also aims to orient students with basic and advanced principles and strategies of training, coaching, and officiating in the sports field.

Course Title: P. Ed. 528 Management of Games and Sport

This course is designed to develop knowledge on administration, management, and supervision in games and sports. It also seeks to provide practical experience to the students about administrative and supervisory techniques.

Course Title: P. Ed. 529 Racket Games and Field Games

This course is designed to develop advanced skills and apply game strategies in any one Badminton/Table Tennis/Kho-Kho/Kabaddi/ and Yoga. This course also intends to impart practical experiences by applying related principles in those games. The students have to choose any two activities (One from racket/field games and another is yoga) from this course where they are required to develop specific notes on their respective games. The main intention of this course is to apply advanced skills, strategies, scientific principles, and laws in their respective fields so that the students will be able to demonstrate skills properly, apply related strategies and laws in-game situations. It also intends to provide officiating experiences on their respective games.

Course Title: P. Ed. 535 Project Meet in Physical Education and Games

This course is designed to provide students with coaching and officiating experiences in athletics and selected specialized games. It also intends to provide practical knowledge of organizing conferences in physical education and games.

Course Title: P. Ed. 537 Kinesiology and Biomechanics

This course is designed to enable the students to gain advanced knowledge on principles and skills related to human movement based on biomechanics and kinesiology. It is also assumed that the course enables the students to apply the knowledge in teaching physical education and games based on different movement patterns.

Course Title: P. Ed. 538 Research and Evaluation

This course is designed to provide prospective teachers with knowledge, methods, and skills of research in physical education and sports. It also aims to enable the students in designing, selecting and applying appropriate tests, measurements and evaluations in physical education and sports. This course is intended to develop the capacity of the students in different components of quantitative and qualitative research in physical education and sports.

Course Title: P. Ed. 539 Cricket

This course is designed to develop an understanding of developmental history, basic skills, and rules and regulations of cricket among the students. The main aim of the course is to apply basic skills and strategies in the situation of cricket game. The course intends to help the students in demonstrating and participating in cricket games. Besides this, the students will also be provided with the experience of officiating in the game.

Course Title: Ed. 442 Teaching Practice

This course is designed to provide hands-on experiences to the students in the area of their profession for enabling them to be competent teachers/professionals.  It creates enabling conditions to the students for bringing professionalism through rigorous practice. The students will gain professional experiences in campus and in cooperating schools or campuses under the close supervision of faculty members of concerned campus/college. In this course, the students undertake the following activities in sequential stages: Micro teaching, Peer teaching, Teaching at School/College/Campus, Peer observation, Test construction, Action research and Overall report writing.

Course Title: Ed. 544 Thesis Writing

This course is designed to provide the students with hands-on experience in preparing a thesis. The overall aim of this course is to enable students to acquire in-depth knowledge and skills for developing research proposal, conducting research and writing a thesis in a standard format. The course is divided into three parts: Academic writing (AW), proposal writing (PW) and thesis writing (TW).  Academic writing introduces students to the basic concepts of writing for preparing proposal and thesis, which will be delivered by the course teacher; proposal writing presents the basic components of a research proposal and prepares the students to develop a proposal in the area of interest in their major subject. Thesis writing engages the students in actually writing a thesis in the area of their choice, probably on the theme already selected for the proposal. Necessary knowledge and skills required for PW and TW will also be delivered by the course teacher. Each student is required to prepare a detailed proposal and thesis under the guidance of the thesis supervisor and present both in the departmental research committee for evaluation and approval.

Course Title: P. Ed. 546 History of Physical Education and Games (Elective)

This course is designed to provide students the knowledge of the historical development of physical education and games. It is also designed to acquaint the students with the knowledge of national and international organizations involved in the development of games and sports. The course contents are of five units where the first three units are related to the history of physical education in some Asian and European countries along with the USA and the rest two units are concerned with national and international organizations involved in games and sports.

Course Title: P. Ed. 547 Sociology of Sports (Elective)

This course intends to provide knowledge on the sociology of sports. Particularly, the contents related to sports sociology, the linkage between social institutions and sports, women, and sports, linkage of social stratification with sports in society are respectively given in the five units.

 For further details:

Shailandra Chilwal, Lecturer [Head]

shailendra.chiluwal@cded.tu.edu.np