Humanistic PE Current Practice of Physical Education in Colleges and Universities
Year: 2014

Both the emergence and dissemination of thoughts of Humanistic PE challenge the traditional teaching model of PE in colleges and universities and it is an urgent need for colleges and universities to explore the teaching model of Humanistic PE to show the respect to human being and to promote the construction of harmonious society. In the cultivation of talents, PE can not only promote the cultivation of healthy personality and improve physical quality of students, but also promote the cultural construction of campus and improve the image of colleges and universities The author firstly analyzes the connotation of Humanistic PE and then elaborates the necessity of the implementation of Humanistic PE in colleges and universities and lastly comes up with several suggestions for the implementation of Humanistic PE in colleges and universities. 1. Overview of Humanistic PE PE is a practice which can help people to enhance physical fitness and transform physical function to adapt to the social development; from the aspect of spiritual realm, PE is a humanistic practice that human initiatively transform his mental state, and it contains lavish Humanity. So, PE is a integrated discipline combining of natural sciences and humanities. Humanistic PE attaches importance to people oriented teaching activities, comprehending sport activities in accordance with students'features and using the teaching method of PE accepted by students and it emphasizes on understanding the profound meaning of PE from a broader sense, which can make the students understand that sports is not only a tool to build up a good physique but also an external expression of human way of life and even the way of existence. Humanistic PE lays stress on the harmonious development of body and mind. People take part in sports is not only the need of exercise, it also contains the pursuit of personal value and the need of process of socialization. Humanistic PE underlines people foremost, puts emphasis on understanding PE from the point of human beings, thinking highly of every single one in society,developing the human nature and boosting the sports. What emerged together with Humanistic PE are how to carry out Humanistic PE and how to realize the people oriented spirit of promoting human nature. PE is closely related to the socialization process of everyone and every individual in society should know how to promote the health development physically and mentally and utilize the sports to realize coordinated development of body, mind and spirit in real life. 2. Necessity of the Implementation of Humanistic PE in Colleges and Universities Colleges and universities are the places of cultivating talents, which sent a lot of talents of all professions and trades to the society and promote the social progress and economic development. PE is a important part of college education which is related to the quality of talent cultivation. Humanistic Physical Education in colleges and universities is an inevitable requirement of the times and social progress. Early in 1994, Chinese government had clearly put forward to promote the humanistic spirit and promote social progress in China Agenda 21. Today, the concept of sustainable development has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and the return of humanistic spirit would place the humanistic education on a very important position. Humanistic education in colleges and 3rd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2014) (c) 2014. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 769 universities is an inevitable demand of the times, and also responsibility of colleges and universities which is given by the times. The implementation of Humanistic PE in colleges and universities is an inevitable choice of talent cultivation in 21st century. Knowledge is the first productive force, and the 21st century is the era of knowledge economy, where human resources play a prominent role in social development. Universities and colleges are strongholds of personnel training, and physical education is an important part of their teaching activities, which plays an important role in promoting the overall development of the people, forming a positive and optimistic attitude towards life and improving psychological diathesis and physical quality. So it is an inevitable choice for universities and colleges to implement Humanistic PE. It is an inherent demand of teaching activities in colleges and universities to carry out Humanistic PE. Today, the purpose of college physical education is to train students to become highly qualified personnel with physical fitness, mental health and healthy personality, which just happens to coincide with the connotation of Humanistic PE. Therefore, the implementation of Humanistic PE is very necessary, which can promote the overall development of students and the cultivation of humanities. 3. Strategies for the Implementation of Humanistic PE in Colleges and Universities To implement Humanistic PE requires colleges and universities to follow the people oriented principle and carry out cultural penetration all the time, turning the physical education into a special activity of a rich cultural heritage and promoting the comprehensive development of students. By making a comprehensive survey of physical teaching activities in colleges and universities, we can find that humanities of teachers is not high, the enthusiasm of students to participate in sports activities is low, the students do not understand the meaning of the humanities of sports and physical education is far from reaching its preset goal. Competitive sports is still the main method of PE, which pays too much attention on students' mastery of motor skills, ignoring the penetration of humanistic knowledge and the cultivation of healthy personality of students, so the effect is poor. In today's society, universities must recognize the importance of the Humanistic PE, learn the connotation and related knowledge of Humanistic PE carefully, build teaching system of Humanistic PE based on the actual situation of teaching and student characteristics, training modern innovative talents who are also integrated. 3.1 Strengthen the Penetration of Humanistic Content Humanities PE requires teachers to respect each student's personal values, to promote freedom and harmonious development of every student, and to promote the overall development of students. Trying to arouse the enthusiasm and initiative of students to participate in sports activities to let them feel the fun in physical activities and the joy of being a human being, thereby to enable students to enhance confidence and interest in learning and promote the smooth development of teaching and learning activities to improve teaching effectiveness. Teachers in colleges and universities should recognize the importance of the penetration of humanistic content, change the traditional teaching philosophy,cultivate every student to be a person of ability and respect each student's personality, interests, hobbies, values, etc. so that students can learn more health knowledge, sports knowledge and safety knowledge. Teachers should guide students to grow and cultivate students' personality by sports activities. 3.2 Optimization of Curriculum In the traditional PE model, PE Curriculum is common, and the content of PE is identical to almost all non sports majors, which takes the competitive sports as the main teaching content. Humanistic PE requires gym teachers in colleges and universities to change their teaching philosophy as soon as possible, to improve the quality of Humanities and physical quality and optimize curriculum. First, colleges and universities should offer PE basic courses, professional courses, elective courses, public courses, interdisciplinary elective courses and other sports courses for students. The system of physical education curriculum should be divided into four parts: humanistic PE, physical