The Feasibility Study Of Establishing Swimming Clubs In Regular Institutions Of Higher Education In Guangxi

Since the new century, our educational system gradually reforms from examination-oriented education system to quality-oriented education system. The national ministry of education promulgates New Curriculum Standard and Guidelines of Physical Education Program in National Regular Institutions of Higher Education in succession, which promotes the reforming process of physical education program in national regular institutions of higher education. Since the promulgating of Guideline, some institutions have taken various forms of reforms of physical education program, and sports club is one of the teaching models, which emphasizes the students'personalities development and cultivates their active studying abilities to form their capability of whole-life physical exercises by themselves, in the guidance of"people oriented"and"health first", taking students as the main part. It receives affirmation in the institutions'physical teaching course, fully realizes the integration of in and out of courses, and enriches greatly the content of the reforming physical courses teaching. At the same time, it plays an important part to raise the physical level of the students, to promote the cultural and ideological progress and improve students'physical and mental health, and to form the habit of sports exercises and lifetime physical view of the college students.Sports clubs in college or university are organizations which are under the leadership of schools, basing on the schools'facilities and equipments, directed by relative leaders, open to all students for extra-curricular physical education and physical activities, promote students to participate in. By the feasibility analysis of establishing swimming club in regular colleges and universities in Guangxi, it can reach the goals of students'lifelong physical exercises by increasing the forms of extracurricular sports organizations in colleges to realize the effective compensation of the sports course, and enhancing students' participation in physical exercise and the self-awareness of exercise, to ease the pressure on students, to form their initiative of taking physical exercises, to improve their organization, coordination and social communication capacities, and to achieve the integration of school sports and social sports.Currently, most of institutions of higher education over the country have listed swimming course in the sports curriculum. In order to develop further the swimming sports in colleges and to raise the students'levels and competing abilities of swimming, so as to make a foundation for the society to cultivate sports backbones and students'lifetime sports, and to promote the comprehensive development of Guangxi sports enterprise, this research aims at the leaders and some swimming teachers and students in 14 regular institutions of higher education in Guangxi, applying many research methods such as literature, questionnaire, on-the–spot investigation, expert interview, mathematics statistics and logic analysis, investigates the current situation of sports teachers in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education and the sports resources like swimming spots and facilities, and the swimming process including swimming teaching, swimming class hours, swimming competition and extracurricular activities, etc. and students'interests towards swimming, and the attitude of the leaders and teachers toward the club, etc. According to the deep analysis and research of these materials, it is illustrated that the students in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education show much interests in attending extracurricular sports, and swimming is popular among the college students, it has social and mass basis. According to the investigation, 65.6% of the students like swimming, with the aim to keep fit, exercise will, hold skills and improve sports levels, and swimming is placed the third among the top ten sports items students like to attend. Besides, 83.8% of the students, 87.5% of the teachers, 71.4% of the experts support the establishment of swimming club in colleges, which provides feasibility for the establishment of the swimming club, and the discussion of the feasibility from the thesis and practice of the colleges sports reforms provides thesis basis and references for the colleges'sports reforms and the establishment of swimming clubs in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education afterwards.Referring to the literature materials about the college sports club, most of the research concentrate on basketball club, football club, aerobics club such aspects, this will provide experience and models for the feasibility to establish swimming clubs in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education. Combining the successful experience of establishing colleges single sport clubs in the developed area both home and abroad, the author makes further analysis of the concepts, qualities, characteristics, administrations and circulating systems of the college swimming clubs, and raises the proposition of establishing swimming clubs in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education, considering the current states of swimming sport in them. It explores new forms of swimming club with Guangxi feature, and provides some useful references for the spreading of swimming sport in Guangxi regular institutions of higher education.