An Investigation And Research Of The Present Situation Of Aerobics In Colleges And Universities Of Henan Province

The main purpose of calisthenics courses provided by colleges and universities is to keep fit and healthy. The subject shows the combination of strength and beauty, and it concentrates not only on training the externality of appearance, pose and motion, but also on cultivating the internality of beauty-appreciation and beauty-sentiment. Besides, it does good to students' right stance, sense of rhythm, body-harmony, taste and health. Since all these specific traits of calisthenics cater to students' psychological and physical characteristics, the calisthenics course has been one of those main courses in colleges and universities.Calisthenics has had a deep and good impression on students since it was first introduced in the P.E. course in the mid 1980's, and nowadays in Henan Province, many colleges and universities have provided it as a selective course. For the continuous development of the calisthenics course in the P.E. education in colleges and universities, this paper has investigated and analyzed how this course is held in these schools in Henan Province, so that we can have a general view of the status quo of it. Furthermore, we can nail down the aim and task of this course, regularize the teaching content, improve examining methods, give prominence to the function of calisthenics teaching in the system of quality-education and offer some valuable gist to the reformation of the calisthenics course in higher institutions of learning in Henan Province.In this paper, the approaches of documentation, investigation and statistics are used, with 49 colleges and universities in Henan Province as common samples, and the calisthenics courses in 26 of them are the focus of the investigation and analysis. And the following conclusions are drawn:1. For the moment, the rate of the colleges which provide calisthenics courses over all the schools in Henan Province is 79.5%, and only 55% of them open it to their boys.Calisthenics teaching in Henan Province has come into the stage of steady development.2. The teaching staff of calisthenics in colleges and universities in Henan Province is young, with very different percentage for males and females; Teachers graduated with the major of calisthenics take only a small part of the whole staff, which has something to do with the characteristics of calisthenics. The teachers' ability for research work is comparatively weak and the referees are not top-level.3. At present, the setting of the aim for "the calisthenics course" in the colleges and universities meets the basic requirements of the National Guideline for RE. Courses in General Institutions of Higher Learning. But 38.46% of the schools investigated provide the course for only one term, which is too short to adequately improve students' ability. So more attention should be given to the course.4. Among the 26 schools investigated, 92.3% focus on "self-invented calisthenics" and "the combination of steps in calisthenics" in their teaching practice. 69.23% select "muscle strength training on mat" as the supplementary content for practice of skills. 92:3% of these schools provide lectures on certain theories.5. Sheer technique scoring is a disadvantage to the thorough examination and evaluation of a student's performance. Various forms of examining have been taken, and teachers have begun to pay attention to the check of students' comprehensive ability.6. Most students who select the calisthenics course have a clear intention. There is a discrepancy in the degree of interest for the course between boys and girls. The decrease of the number of students selecting the calisthenics course occurs in a few schools. The chief reason for this phenomenon is the unitary content and the lack of effective teaching methods.7. The facilities at the arenas are poor. More than half of the students are dissatisfied with such a condition.