| A Historical Meaning of Kinesiology |
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Gwang Ok, Seok-Gyu Choi |
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Chungbuk National University |
Correspondence:
Gwang Ok,
Email: gwangok@yahoo.com
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Received: 29 July 2010 • Accepted: 1 November 2010 |
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| Abstract |
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this study is to analyze the definitions and principles of physical education, physical activity, and sport based on their lexical meanings and prior studies. Moreover, this study explores their history after their creation and introduction and finally brings the light of kinesiology's academic scope and terminological differences and its future.
METHOD
Based on the study method of inter-subjective discussion on prior studies including primary and secondary materials, this study reached the following conclusions.
RESULT
First, the definitions of physical education, physical exercise and sport, physical education means all the movements including instinctive body motions of humans before their abilities to perceive factors of physical exercise or sport developed in accordance with the creation of letters, which evolved into physical exercise, an education through movements to combine tribes, form a people and integrate a national-level community. Sport from western perspectives, which comprehensively implies factors of play through movements, can be defined as the pleasure accompanying diverse movements to satisfy humans' desires and improve their quality of life. Physical education in lexical terms means movements, that is, humans' body motions to discipline their bodies or enhance their health, and physical exercise is education through body activities aimed at sound growth of a human body. On the other hand, sport originating from Western Perspective is fun, joyful and pleasure outdoors; sport has the lexical meaning of pleasure through body activities, which in example is expressed in "exciting sport". Second, the introduction of modern sport is a byproduct of the forced opening-up of Korean by Japanese imperialists and was carried out by missionaries and forerunners. Emperor Gojong's 1895 edict on education, which is the starting point of the modernization of Korean public education, acted as a spiritual standard in pursuit of new education. The underlying principle of the edict was to place more importance on physical education than virtue and knowledge educations and the edict became the origin of the concept of modern physical exercise. Finally, the differentiation of physical exercise studies was the result of changes in the sociocultural environment outside the studies, not the product within the system of the studies. In addition, it was due to the blurring of disciplinary boundaries in accordance with changes in the sociocultural environment to meet humans' increased desire.
CONCLUSION
Therefore the connection between kinesiology and other disciplines enabled the subject's specialization in diverse fields beyond the limit of the disciplinary scope confined to physical exercise and sport as an amalgamation in sport studies. |
| Keywords:
Kinesiology, Human movement, Physical activity, Amalgamation |
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