Research On Yang Xianjiang’s Sports Thoughty

Yang Xianjiang is an excellent Marxist education theorist and youth movement leader in the early days since the founding of China.In his long-term practices of education and reform,he formed his outstanding sports ideas of his own which not only constitute an important part of China’s modern sport thoughts but also shed light upon on the development of China’s sports still at the stage of start-up and exploration and provide reference for the development and reform of modern Chinese sports industry.Centering on the sports idea of Yang Xianjiang,this thesis adopts several research methods such as literature review,historical approach,logical analysis,comprehensive induction,etc.It offers a comprehensive and objective analysis,induction and summary of his primary writings,sports practices and modern research articles.The study found that Yang Xianjiang drew inspiration from Marxist educational theories,John Dewey’s pragmatism in educational theory,Ohara kuniyoshi’s thoughts on all-round personal development and Cai Yuanpei’s thought of "Educating Five Domains Simultaneously" and combined with his immense personal practices of sports and reform in his rich sports theoretical ideas.Yang Xianjiang’s sports ideas can be mainly summarized and categorized into four parts: his study on the sports ontology and the exploration of sports origin,objective and constitution,etc.are an important epistemological reform in China’s sports history;in terms of school physical education,he upheld equally important triple education,initiated the guiding ideology of school physical education "prioritizing physical health",put forward the school physical education consisted of sports,hygiene and game,advocated scientific and regular sports methodology,required students to establish correct attitudes towards sports,emphasized extracurricular sports exercise,inherited critically traditional Chinese sports and called on school to lay emphasis on the organization of sports meeting when conditions permitting;in accordance with the school education,personal development and then national circumstances,he realized the importance of leisure sports,advocating leisure sports and education of rich content and various forms drawing advantages of nature;he put forward the guiding ideology of healthy life in terms of physical exercise,hygiene and health and helped the young people to deal with their doubts and problems in life and study.The study suggests that Yang Xianjiang’s sports ideas are universal and permanent in terms of sports subject;scientific and practical in sports practice;educational and revolutionary in sports objective;epochal and national in sports ideas.At that time,his sports ideas played an active role in encouraging the young people to do sports,advocating healthy lifestyle and strengthening students’ physique.While influencing the sports outlook with the core of "revolutionary outlook on life" established by early Chinese Communist Party members,his ideas offered positive reference for China’s sports meta-theory and enriched China’s researches on comparative sports and sports history.From a developmental perspective,however,his sports ideas have historical limitations in a full understanding of competitive sports.In the new age,Yang Xianjiang’s sports ideas are unfading in that they still have important enlightenment and reference value.His sports ideas and practices can offer the following four points of enlightenment: modern sports discipline construction should pay attention to the studies on the sports ontology and basic theories and avoid "plain copping";health education should be imbedded into the general educational system and we should insist on the guiding principle in school sports that "gives priority to health" and further develop and give full play to the moral function of sports education in the new era,at the same time,extracurricular sports activities can serve to solve the problem of "students’ leaving school early at 15:30 p.m." in elementary and middle school;the realization of China’s nationwide fitness program needs the integration of relevant resources,full use of main carriers of mass sports such as company and street community.The popular sports entertaining activities should be in line with local conditions,foster strengths and avoid weaknesses,carry out with various forms and contents;from the levels of educational guidance and governmental support,the consensus of lifelong sports should be reached in the whole society so as to contribute to the building of a "healthy China".