Physical Education And Human

It is necessary for us to have a profound understanding of the relationships between culture and physical educatkxi (PE), and man and PE when doing researches into the history and present situation of school PE and looking ahead to its future. Otherwise, we will be confused facing the many phenomena and problems of PE, thus unable to put forward corresponding strategies to tackle the challenges confronted by school PE in a new situation. In coexistence, co-action and co-identify among human, culture and PE, the human is the core, the culture is the essence, and PE is one of the external features of culture. When deviated from man, culture can not be so called in its original meaning and the same is true of PE. Similarly, if deviated from culture, man can not be so called, not to mention PE. The concern about man is the core of both culture and PE. It is safe to say that it is man that relates culture closely to PE. From the perspective of school, the essence of PE is an activity of cultivating man. Therefore, culture, PE and man constitute a particular relation. The framework of this paper forms on the basis of above-mentioned understanding, and it covers mainly the following arguments and views.1. Through a thorough exploration of the relationships between man, culture and PE, it is expounded that, PE, as a kind of culture, not only serves as an approach of imparting knowledge, training skills, and building up the body, but also includes the consciousness, emotion, value, idea, morality and spirit of physical education. On the basis of perceiving the cultural background of PE, exploring the cultural connotation of PE, the to-people character, by-people character and for-people character of PE are further analyzed, so as to manifest humanistic ideology of PE with man as its essence, its core and its aim in school PE.2. With the understanding of the spirit in modern times, from the two dimensions of historical retrospect and present examination, the abuse 'the fall of humanity' of school PE is analyzed and criticized. Cultural PE ideology andpractical mode guiding by humanistic spirit are promoted, calling on the care about man and culture in school PE, elevating PE conception, making school PE transformed from materialization to humanization, from skill to culture, reconciled with human integral life in all-side and restoring the cultural essence of school PE.3. Guided by Marx's theory about comprehensive development of persons, with "realistic man" as the starting point, and "all-sided" and "free" development of persons as the ulterior goal, through a rational examination on the research and exploration into school PE conducted by thinkers at home and abroad, we try to understand the most basic problem—the essence of PE in a new light. On one hand, school PE, with physical exercises as its means, is aimed at enhancing people's health and entertainment, rendering colorful physical activities and aesthetic experience with a profound perception of life, representing the activities of human life and the essential power of man. On the other hand, cultural PE ideology is an idea outlook, which bases itself on the pursuit of the essence of human life, presupposes the respect for the dignity and value of human life. It is a kind of ideology and spiritual pursuit with man at the core. It exhibits the following characteristics: integrally healthy, spiritually generated, physically experienced, gamely self-satisfying and free-pleasing.4. From a cultural perspective, a kind of corollary scenery of school PE is constructed and depicted, theoretically and practically, in the theoretical construction, mainly the value, goal and subject of school PE are explored. It is proposed that cultural essence with human as its core should be restored and PE belongs to human. And it is also proposed that the total purpose of school PE should cover two aspects: the visible thing "building up the body" and invisible thing "cultivating man," and cultural character is one of the essential characteristics of PE, that the development needs of man's existence are the deep and initiative cause of school PE innovation, and human needs is the ulterior motive of school PE innovation and development, that the essence of PE curriculum is the cultivation of subject spirit, the spiritual experience,humanization and man, and the cultivation of the healthy growth of the learners in body and mind. Whereas, in the practical construction, it is expected to construct a teacher-student co-action and practical strategy which is, of multiple pedagogical goals, experienced in process, full of humanistic spirit and of all flavors of life, in order to provide a new way for the practical performance of cultural PE ideology.