Kinesiology, Vol. 39. No. 1., 2007.
Professional paper
Survey of the public educational system and structure of European countries from a physical education point of view
Éva Leibinger
Pál Hamar
Henrietta Dancs Szegner
Abstract
The public educational systems and the structures of European countries show several differences so thus they have dissimilar educational-political attitudes. The Hungarian, the Danish, the English, the Finnish, the Dutch, the Italian, the Lithuanian, the Norwegian and the Polish system will be introduced in brief and analyzed with a structural representation of their education. Activities with the purpose of education such as physical education, sport and health education are part of the educational system in every examined case. It can be stated from the aspect of structures that the Hungarian and the Lithuanian system as well as the Norwegian and the Polish institutional systems show several similarities. Examining the characteristics of the educational systems makes it possible to conclude that there are well-marked parallelism of Danish and Finnish education. The English and Dutch institutional education start at age of five, but after this point these two systems are substantially contrary to each other. In the implementation of the new Italian educational system there is no meeting point with any other examined systems. The European attitude and approach towards PE and sport can be a model for Hungarian society. PE and sport are value-bearer and value-transmitter fields of education with more or less expressed influence on all of the examined European educational systems.
Keywords
school structure; physical and health education; Hungarian PE
Hrčak ID:
15891
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2007.
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