TITLE:
Comparison on Curriculum Setting of Winter Sports in Universities in China, America and Europe
AUTHORS:
Xiaohua Wu, Zhenzhong Liu
KEYWORDS:
Winter Sports, Major, Curriculum Setting, China, America, Europe
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.3,
March
31,
2020
ABSTRACT: China has always faced with a huge talent gap in winter sport especially after successful bid for the 2022 winter Olympic Games. As an important base for talents training in winter sports area, many sports colleges and universities in China have set up departments of winter sports to cultivate talents of this field. The text through the method of literature, investigation and interview to collect data, compare the curriculum of related majors of winter sport in China, Europe and United States, learn from the experience of great powers in winter sports to solve the problems existing in the curriculum of major in China. It is believed that the curriculum of winter sports in China is expanded from sports training to leisure sports, while the curriculum of winter sports in Europe and America mainly depends on major of outdoor sports or management. At present, there are great differences between China and foreign countries in terms of curriculum objectives, curriculum content and curriculum system. The reasons for the differences are mainly influenced by history, system and culture. In combination with the actual situation, it is propose that the cultivation of winter sports talents in China should pay attention to the curriculum setting of higher physical education institutions, improve the curriculum setting of winter sports specialty, especially the main theoretical courses, pay attention to the effective connection with practical courses, and explore ways to the sharing teachers and foreign exchanges.