A-COMPARATIVE-STUDY-IN-KNOWLEDGE-MANAGEMENT-AMONG-PHYSICAL-EDUCATION-TEACHERS-IN-PUBLIC-EDUCATION-DIRECTORATES-IN-BAGHDAD

Knowledge management is of a great importance for all institutions as one of the essential components for institutions’ success, survival and growth. This is made through their ability to contribute to maintenance and development of a far sighted vision through which the institution expresses its future inspirations. In addition, it is the highly influential environmental power that reorganizes physical education teachers in directorates. This power leads to basic change in the institution’s processes and to create the required strategy on time. It also contributes to improve transparency rates, level of documentation, knowledge sharing and communication flexibility. Through the researcher’s experience being a teacher in one of the Iraqi schools, and in Baghdad governorate in particular, she found that there is a variation in knowledge management in the sport education institution. Therefore, she decided to conduct a study on knowledge management, especially in the current situation that witnesses a war targeting all moral, social, cultural and cognitive infrastructures. Thus, the study aimed to find differences among physical education teachers in knowledge management for variables of gender and place. The descriptive surveying method was applied with the comparative manner through the application of knowledge management scale which includes (36) paragraphs distributed on five fields on the sample of the study represented in teachers of physical education at Baghdad, Al Karkh and Al Rasafa directorates (1427 individuals divided into: 720 male teachers and 700 female teachers in the period from 15/12/2015 to 18/01/2016. After finishing answers, questionnaires were collected and audited. The researcher collected the degrees which were obtained by each individual in the sample for each paragraph on the scale in order to extract the total degree which is obtained by each individual. After analyzing results, the researcher found that the sample of the study ? teachers of physical education at Baghdad ? in general are characterized with knowledge management and there is no variation due to Al Karkh and Al Rasafa areas, while the researcher found that there is a variation in knowledge management among male and female teachers for the sake of female teachers. Keywords: knowledge management, teachers of physical education at Baghdad’s Public Education directorates.