Research Content Analysis Of Academic Paper On Aerobics Dancing Exercise In China’s Core Journals

Calisthenics，as a new fitness movement，has undergone more than30years since it wasintroduced into China in the1980s. The earliest calisthenics theoretical research paper waspublished in the journal “Sports&Science” in the April1986, in which the novel andpractical role played in the calisthenics preparatory activities was discussed. Calisthenicstheory in China at the beginning of the research is mainly for the function of body shaping,the role of physical fitness, development trend and teaching reform, and so forth. Thesestudies have played a role in promoting the development of calisthenics. With the increase ofefforts to implement the national fitness program, as well as a variety of factors, calisthenicshas become a popular national fitness in the mid and late1990s, therefore, the theoreticalresearch on calisthenics has been more gradually up. The year1999was a major breakthroughboth in calisthenics theoretical studies and research direction. Since then, calisthenics theoryresearch has been done from a diversified and multiple perspectives and became a greatimportant research field.Objective: To make analysis of calisthenics academic papers in the Chinese sports corejournals, probe into its development process and trend and put forward rational suggestionsfor problems existing in calisthenics as well as its future development so as to promote thebetter development of calisthenics.Methods: By using literature survey of about460calisthenics academic papers fromCNKI and reading more than10books, coupled with experts’ interview, mathematicalstatistics and logical analysis, this paper summarizes current research situation of calisthenics,make forecast about its future development and provide the reference for calisthenics theory.Results:①Calisthenics papers in core periodicals from1989to1996are relatively less,while the papers from1997to2009are relatively concentrated, only16core periodicalliterature of aerobics in a total of460articles, in which “Journal of Beijing Sport University”has the largest number,87articles, accounting for18.9%of the total, and “China SportScience” with the least number,2articles, and0.4%of the total.②Calisthenics papers in coreperiodicals mainly focus on school physical education, sport training and national physicaltraining, in which school sports teaching papers are228articles, accounting for49.6%of the total, ranking the first, sport training research paper,151articles, accounting for32.8%,ranking the second, and national physical training,81articles accounting for17.6%, rankingthe third.③Content evaluation of calisthenics academic papers in the core periodicals arecentered on scientific training background, training methods and teaching curriculum as well.Little research done on calisthenics social sciences, however, there is a growing trend.Conclusion:①Research on calisthenics in China for over20years has grown from nothing andreached its peak in the first decade of this century. Research concentrates on competitivecalisthenics as well as school calisthenics teaching, but related research on mass calisthenicsis relatively few.②In school sports, calisthenics which has been studied most is its teaching theory andmethods, then curriculum reform and innovation. There are relatively little research oncalisthenics basic theory, the improvement of body function, physical and mental health,psychological factors, and school aerobics choreographing.③In competitive sports, papers on the basic theory of calisthenics, the competitive rulesand the analysis technical movement rank among the first three. Experts and scholars have theinclination for calisthenics attention, and also dabble in athletes’ physical functions andpsychology, selection of athletes, judging ability, calisthenics training method and creating aswell.④In mass sports, with the emphasis on basic theory and the improvement of bodyfunction, forms of aerobics, club management, social values, and so very few results, researchproduction on forms of aerobics, social values and club management, have few.⑤Althoughthere is little research on the application of sociological theories to analyze the related issuesof the calisthenics movements, it will be the main trend of calisthenics theory research in thefuture.Suggestions:①To take advantage of the school superior resources to attract more fieldresearchers to do the research on calisthenics movements from different perspectives,different ideas, different theoretical foundation, aiming at providing theoretical support for thebetter development of calisthenics.②To attach importance to a comprehensive study,especially make further study in calisthenics performance, stage beauty, style, clothing and so on.③To make full use of sociological theory to analyze related problem in calisthenics,making calisthenics achievements in theoretical research more social, and age andforward-looking.