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Do We Need a New Concept of School Physical Education?
1. Whether the present concept of school physical education fits the spe-
cific affinities and needs of students of both genders?
2. Do the contents and activities correspond to their interests?
3. Is it in line with their culture and social trends?
School physical education cannot be outside the cultural, sociological,
economic, health, motivational, and even political currents of modern life.
Therefore, it is necessary to modernize curricula and strategies for the pro-
motion of physical education. It is necessary to identify children’s needs
and expectations related to physical education and design teaching prac-
tice through different class activities, extracurricular and optional activities.
It is necessary to achieve the quality of teaching that will enable students to
acquire and perfect motor skills, theoretical knowledge and habits for which
they have an affinity and inclination, and which will help them to realize life
in a quality way, the way they want it, in accordance with their capabilities
and needs. It is very important to harmonize school physical education with
the basic right of every human being to be educated and brought up based
on their needs and wishes, and according to their ideals and role models.
The human body is designed to achieve the desired ideal of a humane,
thinking being. In order for humans to reach the level of homo sapiens¹ in
their phylogenetic development, it is necessary more than ever for them to
be homo mobilis. The condition of all conditions of our survival is movement,
and no virtual reality can refute that fact. The characteristic of modern soci-
ety, in which real life is largely abandoned for the sake of identification with
comic book heroes and virtual characters from video games and TV series,
must come to an end. We must separate ourselves from the nihilism of post-
modern society and create a new humanist cultural movement in which hu-
mans will again be at the centre of things, and physical education will re-
ceive the social role that is necessary if we want to preserve civilization. Some
paradigmatic myths in the education of children and youth must be revised
in order to establish better concepts and new ideas.
References
Arunović, D. 1990. ‘Realizacije plana i programa iz gimnastike i njegove relacije
u nekim srednjim školama u Beogradu.’ Fizička kultura (1): 67–70.
———. 1992. Fizičko vaspitanje: teorijsko-metodičke osnove stručnog rada. Niš:
Narodne novine.
¹ Homo sapiens is not a status symbol that a person receives by birth, but rather a symbol that
should be earned during life.
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1. Whether the present concept of school physical education fits the spe-
cific affinities and needs of students of both genders?
2. Do the contents and activities correspond to their interests?
3. Is it in line with their culture and social trends?
School physical education cannot be outside the cultural, sociological,
economic, health, motivational, and even political currents of modern life.
Therefore, it is necessary to modernize curricula and strategies for the pro-
motion of physical education. It is necessary to identify children’s needs
and expectations related to physical education and design teaching prac-
tice through different class activities, extracurricular and optional activities.
It is necessary to achieve the quality of teaching that will enable students to
acquire and perfect motor skills, theoretical knowledge and habits for which
they have an affinity and inclination, and which will help them to realize life
in a quality way, the way they want it, in accordance with their capabilities
and needs. It is very important to harmonize school physical education with
the basic right of every human being to be educated and brought up based
on their needs and wishes, and according to their ideals and role models.
The human body is designed to achieve the desired ideal of a humane,
thinking being. In order for humans to reach the level of homo sapiens¹ in
their phylogenetic development, it is necessary more than ever for them to
be homo mobilis. The condition of all conditions of our survival is movement,
and no virtual reality can refute that fact. The characteristic of modern soci-
ety, in which real life is largely abandoned for the sake of identification with
comic book heroes and virtual characters from video games and TV series,
must come to an end. We must separate ourselves from the nihilism of post-
modern society and create a new humanist cultural movement in which hu-
mans will again be at the centre of things, and physical education will re-
ceive the social role that is necessary if we want to preserve civilization. Some
paradigmatic myths in the education of children and youth must be revised
in order to establish better concepts and new ideas.
References
Arunović, D. 1990. ‘Realizacije plana i programa iz gimnastike i njegove relacije
u nekim srednjim školama u Beogradu.’ Fizička kultura (1): 67–70.
———. 1992. Fizičko vaspitanje: teorijsko-metodičke osnove stručnog rada. Niš:
Narodne novine.
¹ Homo sapiens is not a status symbol that a person receives by birth, but rather a symbol that
should be earned during life.
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