This study reviewed the transition processes and outlooks of goals in Chinese school physical education related to the political circumstance and their characteristics in order to support the goal setting of school physical education in Korea. The goa...
This study reviewed the transition processes and outlooks of goals in Chinese school physical education related to the political circumstance and their characteristics in order to support the goal setting of school physical education in Korea. The goals in Chinese school physical education are based on the socialism tendency and circumstances. Explorative stage(1949-1957), ’the promotion of physical strength’ had been emphasized. Contrating stage(1958-1965), had been the era of ’the coexistence of the whole child education and the extreme communism’. Stagnant stage(1966-1976), the era of the educational goals in physical education was missing. Taking-off stage(1977-), ’the education for the whole men’ has been newly pursued. The outlooks of goals in Chinese school physical education are as follows: First, the goal to pursue the cultivate socialism type human would last in a long term. Second, the goal to pursue the physical fitness would keep going for a while. Third, social and educational value would be emphasized in the goal setting for school physical education. Fourth, among the school physical education goals, the improvement of competition ability would be constant meaning. Fifth, the requirements for aesthetic concept and humanism, development would be increased. Sixth, the long-term unbalanced phenomena in the school physical education in China would be continued until the theoretical system for the goals in school physical education fitting into the present circumstances in China.