| Leisure is an important feature of this time, which is closely related to the quality of life and the development of society. From the year of 1999, China's universities and colleges extend the enrollment and the number of students increases greatly. Physical exercise is the most effective way to promote the health of physical as well as psychology. Whereas, in the curricula of senior student and graduates is not included physical education. Thus, these students rely on leisure time to improve health condition and other qualities. According to the survey of national constitution, the group of 30-40 year-old is in low level. The reason may well be the lack of physical exercises in their leisure time. With the close analysis, it is necessary for universities and colleges to cultivate students'sport ideology and skills. Leisure sports cannot be isolated from sport education with the provision of high attention, which is taking accounting the university sport reform.With the methods of documentary study, investigation, questionnaire, Delphi Technique and statistics, this paper investigates the current situation of university student's leisure sports in some of the colleges and universities of China. This paper also researches the features of the strategies needed to develop leisure sports among university students and proposes some suggestions for the development of their leisure sports. The research conclusion is: (1) In Chinese,"休闲体育"is more precise and integer to present the philosophical concept of leisure sports than"余暇体育"and"闲暇体育";(2) Leisure sports indicate various sorts of exercising activities for leisure. To large extent, it is related to school sports, social sports and competitive sports; (3) Leisure sports of universities are influenced by the subjective factors of students—their interests, attitude, exercising skills and the like—and by the objective ones such as the sport atmosphere, facilities and so on. (4) The university students'behavior characteristics of leisure sports: multiple choices concerning leisure events, but limited by facilities; relatively low participating frequency and enough exercising time; sport field on and off campus chosen by students; their consumptive attitude toward sport products is characterized with replacement and preference. (5) It is necessary to build and optimize the management for the development for leisure sports for university students by applying the theory of general management and learning the successful and effective examples offoreign universities. Based on the analysis make above, this thesis proposes the following suggestions to develop leisure sports among university students: (1) Create a favorable leisure sports environment with guaranteed access to leisure sports activities. (2) The universities and colleges leadership should attach more importance to university student's physical education and strengthen the concept of ongoing physical education and develop the consciousness of leisure sports in the university students. (3) The universities and colleges physical education departments should foster the positive aspects of physical education and provide guidance to develop leisure sports among students. (4) The university students should pay attention to their leisure activity, and self-development healthy and active life styles. And (5) it is necessary to strengthen the function of the mass media to spread the positive notion of leisure sports.
|
PDF Full Text Request