Role Of Selected Folk Games Programme On Self Perception Of College-Going Students

Abstract

The antique value of folk games assists us to remember our past socio-economic status which is the main base of formulating various folk games. Folk games have often been created from local resources and circumstances, which reflect the cultural ethos. Folk games are not only the form of game but at the same time it also considers as a process which engages a group of people in recreation and entertainment for a certain duration of period.  Folk games are designed in such a way that one can develop from a psycho-social aspect along with physical fitness. Equipment-free folk games follow simple rules and regulations which is the main key of its popularity. But in last few decades, it faded up its universal glory. Renowned competitive sports which are mostly very expensive in nature restricted the worldwide practice of folk games. Among the entire society, college going students are played an important role to maintain the socioeconomic culture and tradition of the nation. To feel the sentiment, traditional cultural behaviour self-perception is one of the crucial issues. Self-perception helps one to behave correctly according to the variation of his surroundings. In West Bengal, more than 65% of educational institutions are situated in remote village areas where the costly, equipment-oriented game is not at all lasting for a longer duration rather priceless, apparatus-less folk games are mostly suitable. Like other games, folk games also include physical activity which enrich the player from the direction of physical fitness. But at the same time it is invented to know the role of the folk games on psychological variables, like Self Perception. For the purpose of study total 38 college going male students were selected as subjects (age – 18-21 years), among them 19 were included in the Experimental Group and rests were kept as Control Group. A planned, popular, bunch of folk games programme suitable for the college students were selected as training programme for 12 weeks. Analysis of covariance was applied as statistical analysis where the level of significance was set at 0.05 level. The result of the study showed the significant differences was found in Self-perception.