Inovacije u Nastavi (Mar 2024)

Innovative Kinesiology Education as a Criterion and Predictor of Innovative Education

  • Ivan A. Prskalo,
  • Danimir P. Mandić,
  • Vladan M. Pelemiš

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5937/inovacije2401127P
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 1
pp. 127 – 136

Abstract

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Agreement with living conditions also implies compliance with the increasingly dramatic changes to which the civilization, society, and the people are exposed. The imperative response of society and civilization to changes that are inevitable but evident, with even clearer and more predictable consequences, must be the best in order to be good enough. It should be said that progress improves the quality of life and life expectancy, but there is also the fact that cardiovascular diseases, which can be associated with modern living conditions, are the main cause of death in most of the population. Kinesiology education can have a long-term historical effect only if it is the best because it must be innovative and vital, and it has to question the alignment between scientific theory and practice with new scientific achievements every day. It should be viewed in the light of the lifelong impact that is initiated by the education system with its mandatory stages, as the optimal, well-prepared, and scientifically and professionally based response. All reforms should focus on the affirmation of that response, providing it with the necessary time, optimum staff training and the necessary material conditions. Investing in educational sciences in general and applied kinesiology disciplines in particular cannot be in vain. These professionals should inform themselves about the scientific achievements that constantly affirm the benefits of physicalexercise in general, and physical and health culture in particular.

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