체육교육의 질적 제고를 위한 스포츠의 의미 탐색 = An Investigation of the Significance of Sport for the Sake of Qualitative Improvement in Physical Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With the advent of modem society, participation in sport has drastically increased. Sport has developed in modem society as the cultural phenomenon most representative of internationalization, scientific expansion and commercialism. Since the concept of physical education was framed in the 1930s', the educational value of sport has come to be emphasized and systematic sport education is taught in the schools. However, the notion that the acquisition of technique is the main concern of sport has pervaded the field of physical education and the "technocentric" approach to physical education has led to the continuing problems which plague sport.
The focus of education must be re-aligned with the perspective that the purpose of education is the improvement in the quality of life through qualitative improvement. This means that the significance of acquiring technical proficiency must be subordinate to educational effort which emphasize the essence of sport. To this end, more attention must be focussed on the educational significance of the sport experience.
The sport experience is a way of understanding the world through an awareness of the body as the subject existing in that world. Through the body the concept of time and space are formed. Categories of the sport experience can be divided into the following ten:
1. Spatial and temporal awareness
2. Awareness of others
3. Body or self-awareness
4. Oneness with others
5. Transcendence of the body
6. Aesthetic feeling
7. Existential meaning
8. Decision making
9. Self identity
10. Pursuit of possibility
In general, it can be said that the sport experience is the source of physical knowing and contributes to the development of the whole person. The sport experience does not mean only the physical act of participating in sport activity, but provides to the human being cognitive and emotional realization and knowledge regarding movement. Further, the sport experience plays a role in the development of the complete human being by aiding in the process of discovery of self and others.