HEALTH-FITNESS EDUCATION

ESSENTIAL FOR IMPARTING

BALANCED EDUCATION

- The most important Challenge to Indian Universities.

DR. DEVINDER K. KANSALHead, Deptt. of Physical Education & Sports Sciences

(University of Delhi)

&

Principal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, Delhi

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“No matter what amount of work onehas, one must find time for exercisedaily as one does for one’s meals.Education is to draw-out the best outof body, mind and soul”.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Let us revisit the InternationalCharter of Physical Education andSports proclaimed at the 20th sessionof the United Nations Education,Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO), meeting in Paris on 21st

November, 1978.

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This charter was proclaimed after unanimousacceptance of the same. Keeping in view thischarter, everyone should be free to develop andpreserve his or her physical, intellectual, andmoral powers, and it says that access to physicaleducation and sport should consequently beassured and guaranteed for all human beings. Infact, it is only the introduction of health, physicalfitness and wellness education which may helpeducationists to perform their duty of impartingbalanced education to all the students.

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Concerted efforts are needed toupdate general education so as tostart imparting balanced education inIndian Universities without any furtherdelay in introducing essentialcomponent of health-fitness educationfor all students.

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I wish to quote here, “When yougain control over your body you willgain control on your mind, you willgain control over your heart andsoul” B. Phillips (1999).

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For example, Punjabi University becameand will ever remain first in India tointroduce sports science in the country atmaster’s level. Which was followed by theUniversity of Delhi after 16 years where thesecond department of Physical Educationand Sports Sciences was created in the yearof 2005 by the efforts of the teachers ofIGIPESS, two of whom happened to belongto the sports sciences department ofPunjabi University, Patiala.

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It was again Punjabi University whichpublished first research papers in anyforeign research journals in physicaleducation and sports science, namely BritishJournal of Sports Medicine (1979 & 1981),Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports (Italy)(1975 & 1978), Hungarian Journal of PhysicalFitness (1982), Journal of Anthropology &Morphology (Germany, 1975), Proceeding ofOlympic Science Congress published byHuman Kinetics (USA) in 1986.

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Punjabi University is the only Universitywhose teacher has ever been appointedChairman of Olympic Scientific Congress1984 from India during Los-Angeles Olympics.

Punjabi University is the only IndianUniversity to have fetched the Indo-USFulbright Scholarship on Olympic Athletes’(1988-89) research in Sports Science field.

Punjabi University will remain first in thehistory of Sports Science in India to haveproduced first few sports scientists with doctoratedegree in Sports Science.

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1. Recommendations Central AdvisoryBoard on Education, Govt. of India, NewDelhi.

2. Recommendations of NCERT for B.Ed.students (NCERT, 2000).

3. Recommendations of Delors CommissionReport, 1996.

4. 1978 UNESCO Charter of PhysicalEducation & Sports.

5. National Education Policy – 1986.10

6. Programme of Action on National SportsPolicy of India, 1992.

7. Global Vision : International Council forHealth, Physical Education, Recreation, Sportand Dance (ICHPER. S.D., 1997).

8. The observations of Parliamentary StandingCommittee on HRD (1998) regarding theneed for integrating sports with formaleducation.

9. UNESCO – ICHPERSD Mission for SchoolPhysical Education, 2001.

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In turn, erosion of the physical well-being and health resulting ininadequate levels of physical fitness,results in erosion of a nation’s health,and thus, our world’s health”.

“There is a world of differencebetween knowing what to do andactually doing it”

Bill Phillips (1999)

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Q. What is the specific change we arelooking for bringing in the area ofimplementing health-fitness right to beprovided to all students?

It is not easy to write down the specificgoal to be achieved or the specific answerto the above seemingly simple question,without taking it seriously at our innervoice of the soul.

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REFERENCE

Bucher, C.A. and M.K. Krotee (2002). Management ofPhysical Education & Sports. McGraw Hills, New York,USA.

Delors, J. (1996). Report of the UNESCO’s Inter-nationCommission on Education in the 21st Century. InProceedings of Asian Regional Conference on Learning: The Treasure within Implication for Asia. Jan. 25-28, 1999, National Institute of Education Planningand Administration, New Delhi.

Gandhi, M.K. (1904). In India of My Dreams. NavjivanPublications House, (2001) Ahmadabad, Gujarat.

Human Resource Development Ministry (1986).National Policy on Education.

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REFERENCE (Contd)

Kansal, D.K. , L.S. Sidhu and S.K. Verma (1981).Improvisation of a simple device in measuring the anaerobic power of Indian male and female athletes.Brit. J.Sports Med., 15:136-160.

Kansal, D.K., L.S. Sidhu, S.K. Verma and M.S. Sohal(1982). Plasma protein level and its relationwith performance in ale athletes. Hung. Rev. SportsMed., 23:39-45.

Kansal, D.K., N. Aggarwal and A.K. Gupta (1986).Kinanthropometry (Ed. J.A.P. Day).

Kansal, D.K. (2012). A Practical Approach toMeasurement & Evaluation in Physical Education &Sports. Sports & Spiritual Science Publications, NewDelhi.

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REFERENCE (Contd)

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (2007).Comprehensive Sports Policy, Govt. of India, NewDelhi.

NCERT (2000). Curriculum Framework.

Olympic Scientific Congress Proceedings Vol.I (1984).Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Phillips, B. (1999). Body for Life. Harper CollinsPublishers, Inc., New York, USA.

Sidhu, L.S., D.K. Kansal and B.S. Kanda (1975).Anthropometric & roentogeno-grametric assessmentof physique and body composition of athletesspecializing in throwing events. J. Sports Medicine &Physical Fitness, 15:192-198 (Italy).

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REFERENCE (Contd)

Sidhu, L.S. & D.K. Kansal (1977). A new approach to thestudy of inter correlations among bone, muscle and fatcomponents of upper arm. J. Morph. Anthrop. 68:257-264(Germany).

UNESCO (1978). International Charter of Physical Educationan Sports. Cited from C.A. Bucher and M.K. Karotee(2002). Management of Physical Education and Sport,McGraw Hill, USA.

Verma, S.K., S.R. Mohindroo and D.K. Kansal, (1978).Effect of four weeks of hard physical training on certainphysiological and morphological para meters of basket ballplayers. Journal of Sports Med. Phys. Fitness, 18:379-384(Italy).

Verma, S.K., L.S. Sidhu and D.K. Kansal (1979). Aerobicwork capacity in young sedentary men and activeathletes in India. Brit. J. Sports Med., 13:98-102 (U.K.).

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