"The Future of School Sports, the Future of Student Athletes" What Will Older Generations Do for Future Generations?
Nov 25, 2024
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The Korean Sports Council held the 2024 School Sports Promotion Forum at 2 p.m. on the 25th at Olympic Parktel Olympia Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul under the theme of 「Changes in School Sports Together, Creating a Future for Students」. The forum, organized by the Korean Sports Council's School Sports Committee, was designed to find desirable directions and practical ways to move forward together for the future of school sports in a rapidly changing social environment. About 200 people attended, including Kim Jong-soo, the secretary-general of the Korea Sports Association, Yang Chung-yeon, the secretary-general of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled, Huh Tae-sook, the director of the Korea Sports Association, Lee Jin-sook, the chairman of the Korea Sports Safety Foundation, Sohn Jeung-chul, the secretary-general of the Korea Sports Association, and Shin Jung-hee, the chairman of the women's committee of the Korea Sports Association. Prior to the start of the forum, Kim Taek-cheon, chairman of the School Sports Committee, and the members called for the active policy making and interest of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the future of school sports through the "Declaration of the School Sports Committee for the Future of School Sports".
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Hannam-hee, a professor of international sports at Korea University, made the first presentation under the theme of 'School Sports in a New Era'. Professor Han said, `According to the Ministry of Culture's 2023 「National Sports Survey」, the participation rate of teenagers in sports is 52.6%, lower than 54.3% in their 70s.' In 2021, the proportion of obese students among elementary, middle, and high school students was 19%, up 3.9%p from 2019. 30.8% of all students were concerned that they needed weight management. As a problem with current school sports, it was pointed out that "the lower grades of elementary school lack physical education time due to integrated subjects, the 3rd to 6th grades have a problem of avoiding physical education classes due to the lack of professionalism of teachers, and middle and high schools have a lot of room for physical education to be formalized and marginalized due to entrance exam-oriented education." Regarding the direction of future school sports, Professor Han emphasized that "school sports in a new era are not changes in identity, but changes in educational methods.".He suggested that "Digital-based physical education such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), and wearable devices should be tailored to support each student's physical activities to overcome the limitations of physical education and approach them from the perspective of ecological sports to learn the value of life in harmony with the environment through school sports."
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Kang Ho-seok, president of the National Council of Leaders (Squash's national coach), criticized the existing regulatory policy on student athletes under the theme of 「Necessity for changes in the student player development system」. " (Due to the lowest academic ability system), middle school students have to file a lawsuit to participate in the competition." violence made by adults." Comparing Korea, which only participated in women's handballs at the Paris Olympics, and Japan, which won the right to participate in all ball games, Kang said, "Korea uses a policy of picking out 'student athletes' with tweezers, but Japan lets all children exercise through the 'bookatsu (club)'." The UK's school game is a policy that allows all children to participate in the competition through level 1 to 4 competitions to find happiness in study and exercise, but Korea's minimum education system is a policy that limits student-athletes to 'nose' if they don't study. There is a big difference in perception." `The older generation should not impose a system on the next generation, but rather think about what education is needed for student-athletes. A customized curriculum for student-athletes and practical measures to combine study and exercise should be prepared" he stressed. After mentioning that Stanford University produced 39 `non-athletes' at the Paris Olympics and won more medals than `athletic majors' at Korea National Sport University (14), Kang said, `We should not only shed light on foreign athletes who used to be lawyers and doctors at every Olympics, but also figure out whether our society allows various career choices when both sports and study are combined.' "If it opens the way for various career choices other than going to the same department, you will naturally do exercise and study at the same time." Chairman Kang also suggested that "(In order to change the student player development system, it is urgent to change the leadership and the coach training system") and that "(the introduction of the 'coach developer' system, which has already become common in sports advanced countries such as Japan and Australia)." "There is a need for a policy that combines coach training and mentoring to provide continuous support and advice to coaches while learning and growing coaching skills."
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Following the presentation, a comprehensive discussion was held with Oh Jung-hoon, principal of Guryong Middle School, as the chairperson. Kim Ki-chul, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, said, `School sports, the answer to all questions is clear. All teachers who have to teach school sports in elementary, middle, and high schools should faithfully teach according to the number of hours of physical education classes presented in the curriculum. He then raised the "movement to attempt another integrated subject, such as a "healthy life" style, in which physical education was barely separated from the first and second grades of elementary school "Enjoyable Life" and emphasized that "the subject separated from a pleasant life must be 'Sports Subject". "No matter how good a curriculum is developed, the value and direction of true physical education cannot be changed. You can teach and learn physical education like physical education." Director Ahn Kook-hee 'Sport Forum Together "In order to foster student athletes, a policy approach is needed to provide the voices of athletes, coaches, and parents. Social support and responsibility are needed. It takes a whole village to raise a child. I hope it will be an opportunity to think together about how society's perception of sports is changing and what the cause of the change should be."
Discussions and question-and-answer sessions over two and a half hours, concerns of older generations for future generations of sports, and on-site enthusiasm for changes in school sports were hot.
Principal Oh Jeong-hoon, who is the leader of the group, said, `The future begins now from the present. Let's capture the future while protecting the nature and values of school sports. The message was delivered that the 1% audience here will change the future of our school sports.
In his closing remarks, Kim Taek-cheon, chairman of the Korea Sports Council's School Sports Committee, said "This is where the change in school sports begins. The discussion and question and answer were heated. I think it's a desire for a change in school sports"In today's presentation, we talked about not only the physical activity and health of physical education, but also the socio-cultural aspect as a sport. It was about the culture of physical activity and the culture of sports" he summarized. Regarding the questions and answers surrounding the minimum education system on the floor "All policies around the world are now changing to support, not regulation. The minimum education system is a regulatory law. "This discussion is also a change in school sports. The School Sports Committee promises to organize today's discussions well and take a step forward in creating the future of Korean students."
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