Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province High School Student Sports Values And Physical Activity Participation Present Situation Investigation And Study

Companying the development of human culture, PE (physicaleducation) has multiple effects on the modern world as a kind of socialphenomena. It is because PE has the practical use to fulfill thedevelopment of human being and the societies. And this practical useis the value of PE, which is not only the social premise of PE’s existing, butalso the core of PE’s culture.‘Outline of People’s Sports Plan’ points outclearly:’ People’s Sports Plan is aimed to the national people, especiallyto the youth and the children.” It emphasizes that the school physicaleducation, as the basic and stress of China’s socialist physicaleducation, has an important position as the main field of People’sSports Plan. Whether the school PE can be well carried out or not will notonly result in the physique of the whole national people, but also playan important role of improving our national quality and the capitaleconomy. While most of the current study to the school PE just remainthe surface layer of students’ behaviors in high school and is not able tofurther understand and analyze the deep motive of the students’behaviors, which is high school students’ value of PE. The study to highschool students’ value of PE can help us have a deep andcomprehensive understanding of PE, which will have an active effect tocultivate high school students’ sports sense for life and to bring upsocialist constructors and successors with comprehensive development.PE value is a kind of recognition and comments to PE’s function andeffect based on social demand. It has a direct effect on school PE’sdevelopment. Only when high school students have a correctunderstanding to PE’s value can school PE realize its function to themaximum extent. But due to certain traditional and other reasons, mostof the high school students in Jiangsu haven’t really realized theimportance of physical exercise, and haven’t been activated to join the exercise with consciousness. And the incorrect understanding to PEvalue has a passive impact for students to participate sports, and it hasalso become a big obstacle of school PE’s modernization.Here are some findings from the survey on PE value andparticipation from the high school students in Wuxi, Jiangsu:①Besides the motive of strengthening body, the motive ofentertainment, refreshment, communication and character developinghas also been emphasized by high school students in Wuxi, Jiangsu.Nowadays high school students begin to have a clear recognition tophysical exercise. Their motives are healthy, active and are good fortheir body and minds. It’s almost the same as what raised by PErevolution in high school, less competition but more health.②PE was merely regarded as a way to strengthen one’s body.Now it has changed gradually in high schools. More and more highschool students come to realize that PE plays an active role in polishingone’s mind and cultivate one’s character. The after-school physicalactivities have been a bright sight of view in high school in Wuxi,Jiangsu.③Study the status of high school students’ PE value can help highschool students set up correct PE value, activate their need of PE, andemphasize the PE sense in life, and it can also motivate their feeling ofPE as well as their ability of creation and hence their willingness toparticipate in PE activities.