Research On The Current Situation Of Dance Sport Course At Some Universities Of Jiangxi Province And Its Development Strategy

Dance Sport, integrated with physical, music, aesthetics, communication andentertainment, is an elegant competitive sport event that full of cultural and artisticconnotation. It was introduced into China since the mid-1980s and has been rapidlypopularized all over the country. With the progress of modern society and the deepeningreform of Higher Education, especially, since the implementation of "The decision ondeepening education reform and the promotion of quality education "and" NationalFitness Program ", Dance Sport is gradually getting into college classroom and popularwith college students. Currently, there are a few researches on College Dance Sport inJiangxi Province. Compared with sports dance well developed cities, the situation inJiangxi needs to be improved.This paper based on the methods of documentary analysis、expert interview、logical analysis and mathematical statistics to make a investigation on the currentsituation of sports dance course in Jiangxi colleges.Through systematically analyzesome contents of sports dance courses including teaching objectives, teaching hours,teaching content, the teaching materials, the formulation of the curriculum, teachingorganization, teaching methods, teaching evaluation, this paper gets some surveyresults:1. The fulfillment rate of Dance Sport course is not high enough in some collegesof Jiangxi Province and the development trend of Dance Sport course is imbalance.2. Among the colleges which provide Dance Sport course, the majority of teachershold the idea that the class hours (32-36hours a term) is unable to suffice the highstandards of Dance Sport teaching contents.83.57%of Dance Sport teachers think itshould be72hours per semester.3. The faculty of Dance Sport course is relatively weak, specializing in DanceSport only take up22.58%of the total.4. The Teacher age structure is not reasonable; most teachers are among25-35years old and have short teaching service life. The education level and title is basicallyin balance, but generally are not high and leave much room for improvement. The teachers’ knowledge mostly came from short-term training and self-learning.5. Currently, there are no harmonized standards or Syllabus for Dance Sportteaching. Dance Sport syllabus always formulated by teachers according to the actualsituation of their schools and their own professional skills.6. Theoretical knowledge teaching is insufficient, only few schools have DanceSport theory courses and only occupy1-2hours of the total time; the contents ofteaching are simple. Without theoretical support, Dance Sport teaching and learningcan’t be developed very well.7. Colleges are lack of infrastructure for Dance Sport and most of them cannot befully utilized by students.Finally, this paper has proposed some useful advices based on the status quo ofDance Sport course to promote the development of Dance Sport course in universitiesof Jiangxi Province.