On The Effect Of The Outward Bound On Junior High Students’ Physical Fitness And Mental Health

Outward bound is considered as one of the most influential educational reformsduring the twenty-first century. It has acquired tremendous progress in fields of schooleducation, psychotherapy, parenthood and community development, criminal behaviorcorrection, business organization and non-profit organization, leisure industrial circle andso on. As a kind of comprehensive quality education, outward bound, basing on sports,mainly aims to enhance one’s mental health and stamina by training. Through it, personalpotency can be motivated; optimistic psychology and tough volition can be cultivated;communicative initiative and technique can be improved; team spirit of interaction andsupport can be established; cooperative consciousness also can be extremely strengthened.This paper, basing on the physical class in junior high, aims at junior middle students’physiological and psychological characteristics and advantages in outward bound. Methodsof document literature, interviewing method, questionnaire survey, mathematical statisticsand logical analysis are used in this research to analyze and study the origin, meaning,features, content, theoretical basis and teaching model of outward bound, as well as therelations among students’ sport quality, mental quality and the outward bound. The resultshows that adopting outward bound into junior high is available because it has certaintheoretical basis and practical significance. Otherwise, it is a kind of reform and innovationto traditional physical education class. Physical education lessons with outward bound in itcan better promote students’ physiological and psychological qualities as well as theirsocial adaptabilities than traditional ones. And it corresponds with the method and need ofjunior high education. Besides, outward bound in physical education does positive effecton cultivating healthy psychology, improving good interpersonal relationship, developingcooperation team spirit and enhancing social adaptability.Basing on this result, several suggestions are provided in this paper. The writer pointsout that the teaching content of outward bound should fit be suitable, as well as the teaching aim should be designed reasonably. During the teaching process, outward boundshould be combined with the traditional physical education practically and innovatively tomaximize the effect of physical education. The facility and court of outward boundteaching should be prepared sufficiently, safely and practically. The outward bound trainersshould be trained well and the organization ability of physical teachers in outward boundteaching should be enhanced.