Trend Of Thought In Militarismeducation And Its Influence On School Physical Education

Trend of thought in militarism education emerged between the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. And it was prevailled in China for more than twenty years. The main content includes the patriotic educational spirit of criticism of traditional education of liberal arts, the propaganda of military spirit, having reserve soldiers among the people, turnning the entire nation into soldiers.Militarism has been long endured in the Chinese nation as a convention. In the critical period of our nation, the advanced intellects realized the importance of militarism and the overall healthy quality of the entire people of our nation. As a reasult, they began to advocate the militarism education. It was analysed that the main reasons of the rising of militarism education are the influence of international militarism, social Darwinism, anti-russia movement. The advocation of peace also leads to the decline of militarism education.Under the visual field of trend of thought in militarism education, personages in all fields of society, especially for Kang Youwei, began to know the significance of Physical Education. In his educational thoughts, the three elements of the thoughts of military physical education for a prosperous country with a powerful army, the school physical education for "moral, intellectual. and physical", and the feminine physical education constitute a creative, special physical ideological system.During the period of the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, our nation's society has changed fundamentally. Different classes in China introduced the thought of militarism education for different purposes. And they put all these thought into use in school physical education and formed the militarism school physical education with Chinese features, which is found to be the military exercises. It helped the social developments and promoted the process of standardization of our nation's school physical education, and established the fundation of physical education in our country's overall education initially.In further study, it was found that the trend of thought in militarism education has changed the traditional concept of despising physical education, spurred the changing of school education concepts, promoted the reforms in educational content and methods, enriched the content of school education, pushed forward the popularization of school physical education.