TITLE:
The Enlightenment of Locke’s Educational Concepts on Chinese Adolescents’ Physique Education
AUTHORS:
Yalong Li, Huijian Wang, Jing Li
KEYWORDS:
Locke’s Educational Concepts, Chinese Adolescents, Physique Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.8 No.2,
May
24,
2018
ABSTRACT: This paper first illustrates John Locke’s Educational concepts, such as promoting the view of talent of all-round development of physique, morality and intelligence, paying attention to the curriculum view of physical health education, paying attention to choice of teacher, model education, and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Then combining the physical characteristics of Chinese adolescents, it further expounds the enlightenment on Chinese adolescents’ physique education. We have to learn from Locke’s view of talent and to adhere to the educational goals of cultivating all-round development of physique, morality, intelligence and aesthetics, to learn from Locke’s view of curriculum, to put the physique education of young students in the primacy of school education, cultivating their healthy body, to learn Locke’s teaching concept and do a good job in physique education for adolescents. The aim is to right the position of school physical education, improve adolescents’ healthy physique, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with full-scale development of morality, intelligence, and aesthetics.