HUMANISTIC APPROACH IN THE ORGANIZATION OF SPORTS LESSONS: KARATE AS MEANS OF SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2010, Vol 25, Issue 11
Abstract
A great opportunity of humanistic approach implementation is found in spiritual and physical education of students during the lessons of martial arts. Three main constituents are necessary to acquire the mastery level in martial arts: [1] moral qualities, mental power and willpower; [2] physical condition, strength and endurance; [3] technical mastery. It is assumed, that karate takes an important place in the system of spiritual and physical education of a personality, ensuring not only versatile physical but also moral education. Thus, the priority is given to the spiritual aspect of karate, but the fghting technique is of a minor importance. In Latvia, not so many methods of karate teaching have been developed, which are based on didactic sport teaching principles worked out according to humanistic approach. That is why the aim of this research is investigation of humanistic approach implementation at the lessons of karate with adolescents according to specially developed teaching methods. Eighty 14-15-year-old students, who were divided into experimental and control groups, participated in the research. The following methods have been used: a test “Achievement motivation and Fear of failures”, a test “Feelings – Activity – Mood”; to defne the development level of physical qualities control tests of sport standards of Ministry for Education of the Latvian Republic have been carried out. The results have been subjected to mathematical processing applying analysis of variation and Tukey HSD test. The results of the research have confrmed, that humanistic approach implementation at the lessons of karate promotes positive dynamics of students’ achievements motivation, improvement of mood and feelings. All the results have been analyzed and interpreted.
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Sergejs Čapulis
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