Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v19i0.2674
Kinesiology Education of the Future
Vladimir Findak
; Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb
Sažetak
Taking into consideration children’s essential and existential needs to adapt to contemporary life circumstances, the future of kinesiology education must be viewed in the context of at least four factors. Those are continuous change, children’s sensibility towards contemporary civilizational trends, the need for a continuous transformation of the educational system and emphasized importance of kinesiology and its applied areas within that system.
Kinesiology theory and kinesiology practice readily confront contemporary life circumstances, and numerous research indicate that appropriate teaching of physical and health education, alongside physical exercise are becoming a universal corrective to insufficient physical activity.
With such awareness, the paradigm of kinesiology education of the future implies dealing with issues, which immanently belong to kinesiology and its applied areas, but also dealing with other global issues, or their parts that other sciences do not deal with. It is expected that the changes of paradigm of the substrate science with its applied areas, and their authority are scientifically grounded. Applied areas of kinesiology in the broadest sense, the physical and health education field in the narrower sense and, physical and health education in the narrowest sense have exceptional merit. This merit is, reflected in its universality, intactness, domination and other comparative advantages, alongside family and school, the third system of education.
One of the strategic developments of kinesiology education of the future, with respect to the increased presence of motor inactivity among all age groups, children, pupils and youth, should be in the direction of promoting a new lifestyle. In that sense, ensuring the acquisition of kinesiology literacy throughout schooling should be proclaimed a basic human right and an initiative for adopting it in the “Declaration of Human Rights” should be sent to the United Nations. Various types of diagnostic procedures are implemented in theory and practice of many areas including the field of kinesiology education; however, educational diagnostics is scarce. The future of kinesiology education most certainly depends on the appropriate education of future kinesiology professionals, their professional development, but also on defining standards of the kinesiology profession, in line with new and significantly changed life and work circumstances of present-day society. Kinesiology as a substrate science and its applied areas confidently approach the future, which is evident in the results achieved to date. It is expected that awareness of the necessity of engaging in physical activities throughout a person’s life, age-appropriate and taking into consideration opportunities and circumstances will gain ground in the 21st century. What is more, everything points to the conclusion that not only will man and society recognize that physical activity are the sine qua non of human existence, but that the aims of civilized society cannot be realized without kinesiology and its applied areas!
Ključne riječi
contemporary conditions; educational system; future; kinesiology; kinesiology education; kinesiology literacy
Hrčak ID:
193790
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Datum izdavanja:
3.8.2017.
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