ABSTRACT

Currently, the entertaining and social functions of traditional ethnic sports tend to be bestowed with new educational and exercising values which conforms to modern education and these two develop beside each other, infusing robust vitality into entertainment and exercise of modern society. The values of traditional ethnic sports are attracting attention of experts and educators, transplanting to schools and entering classrooms. It breaks out of a sub-cultural ideology and integrate into an optimizing education system on a daily base. So far, there have been traditional ethnic sports course set up in some colleges and universities in Guangxi, which demonstrates the P.E. philosophy of certain institutions, and goes along with the running traits and goals of regional higher educational institutions. The establishment of traditional sports course has broken through the limitations of P.E. teaching in higher educational institutions, and shows the substance of physical education-healthy and lifelong sports. It has optimized the teaching contents, provoked students’ learning interests, put forward ethnic cultures, and cultivated the students’ ability to practice lifelong sports. In addition, it has cultivated student’s practice skills in multiple aspects, and explored a new way of implementing education reform in higher educational institutions concerning regional and ethnic situations, and it provides precious referential and practicing values for education reforms in local colleges and universities.