The Research On The Physical Education Views Of Dong Shouyi

Dong Shouyi is one of the founders of the Chinese modern sports.He is the third member of International Olympic Committee in China and is reputed as “Father of Basketball Sports in China”.In addition,Ma Yuehan,Yuan Dunli and he are known as “Three Talents of North China Sports Fields”.He compiled Basketball Techniques,the first basketball theory monograph of our country,thus promoting the scientific development of domestic basketball sports.Dong Shouyi has been engaged in school sports for more than 20 years,taught sports nationwide and cultivated multiple sports teachers in 1930 s and 1940 s.He is also devoted to boosting the development of mass sports and makes contributions to the improvement of nationals physique.Dong Shouyi has been busy “spreading the sports” in his life,and illustrates the significance,value and function of sports with his lifelong sports practice.He has made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese modern sports.This research studies the sports thoughts of Dong Shouyi,which both refers to the history and the reality.It selects the topic of “Research of Dong Shouyi's Sports Ideology”,adopts the methods like method of literature data,method of historical analysis and method of expert consulting,deeply arranges and analyzes related sports works of Dong Shouyi.On the basis of absorbing the research fruits of precedents,it explores the sports ideology of Dong Shouyi and its enlightenment to the domestic sports reform and development in the future.The research results show that the background for the sports ideology of Dong Shouyi lies as as follows.(1)Modern Chinese government's campaign of Western learning with the purpose of strengthening our country and the Christian missionaries' spread of Western sports provide opportunities for Dong Shouyi to learn modern sports.(2)Studying in the U.S is an important node for the formation of his sports ideology.(3)Sports practice activities are the realistic foundation for the formation and perfection of Dong Shouyi's sports ideology.The contents of Dong Shouyi's sports ideology are shown as follows.(1)Emphasize that the real meaning of sports lies in education,namely the real significance and value of sports is to cultivate people,including moral education and cultivation of their social adaptability.(2)Advocate the school sports that is not the “contestant system”,which means that school sports should not have the cups and medals mania,it should target at all the students without any discrimination and realize the whole-student development of school sports.(3)Advocate the school sports that focuses on the healthy physical and mental development of students,which means that school sports teaching should remove the opinions such as mere technique theory and mere teaching material theory,and should place the healthy physical and mental development of students in the important position.(4)Emphasize the moral cultivation of athletes;athletes should respect the competition,abide by sports rules,form good tempers and try to pursue the technical progress rather than competition winning.(5)Emphasize the scientific sports training,which is to strengthen the theoretical guidance of science,conduct step-by-step practice and rationally master the degree of training.(6)Advocate “public sports”,namely to popularize the mass sports,develop the sports contents suitable for the public and enable the public to consciously form the good sports habits.On this basis,Dong Shouyi's sports ideology has the following enlightenment for domestic sports reform and development.(1)It helps change the status quo that the school education is weakened and marginalized in the context of exam-oriented education.(2)It helps promote the school sports target at all the students.(3)It helps change the tendency of the declining physique of students.(4)It helps change the athletes' cultivation mode of “emphasizing business technical training and neglecting ideological and moral education”.(5)It helps strengthen the scientific sports training on the basis of athletes' health.(6)It helps promote the integrated development of national fitness and health for all.