فاطمه فرخانی

 Abstract

Today, sports have significant importance and almost a large part of people deal with it in various ways. Exercising at a professional or amateur level comes with risks and injuries. At the school level and during sports activities in this environment, there is a possibility of injuries and sports accidents. Therefore, sports teachers, who have the main role in managing sports in schools, should be familiar with their legal responsibilities and crisis management methods when sports accidents occur in schools.

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between sports teachers' awareness of legal responsibilities and crisis management during sports accidents. The method of this research in terms of practical purpose, strategy type, qualitative research type and its implementation path is through semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data from the interview. The participants of this research are physical education teachers and trainers, sports management professors and legal experts. The interview started with ۱۰ interviewees and continued until theoretical saturation was reached and finally ۲۲ people were interviewed.

The results show that in order to know their legal responsibilities, sports and physical education teachers must first learn about the rules and regulations of sports operations and their legal and legal duties in order to avoid the imposition of legal responsibility during accidents. On the other hand, the researcher came to the conclusion that physical education and sports teachers should use the four stages of prediction, preparation, coping, recovery and reconstruction in order to manage the crisis in the event of sports accidents so that they can prevent the crisis and if it occurs Control and fix it.

The researcher also came to the conclusion that teachers' awareness of their rights, powers and duties should be increased by holding educational-legal courses, pathology courses and transfer of experience and production of audio-visual compositions and contents in order to increase information and awareness. Increasing their legal rights, they can prevent any damage due to lack of knowledge.

Key words: sports, sports teachers, legal responsibilities, crisis management, sports events.