| dc.description.abstract | Primary folk sports have been passed and developed by successive governmental policies, which started from 1970 and through 1990. During the period, there have been changes in policy, curriculum practices and teaching, as well as sports team-up.
In the perspective of policy, the authorities have poured great efforts on the promotion of folk sports by fixing contest rules and stipulating related regulations. Initially, it was focused on such items as rope jumping, shuttlecock kicking and diabolo. Moreover, there have appeared such large sport teams as dragon dance, lion dance and Sung Chiang battle array since Ministry of Education actively launched a promotion project of traditional arts education in primary and junior high schools in 1991.
In curriculum practices and teaching, there have been changes from 1975 to 2000. The course of country culture was turned into folk culture, both of which are substantially the same. The curriculum reflects on the teaching practices. Only teachers having interest in folk sport will let students do the learning; otherwise, students’ interest will be brushed off. Therefore, the cause is a deficiency in competent teachers. It is no wonder that primary physical education is not well-practiced.
In sports team-up, the notion of turning an entertaining sport into a competing sport is to promote the sport popularity, while only highlighted schools can show their results. Thus, only promotions spot by spot can be seen, which stands for an existence of folk sports not for actual promotion.
From the above three perspectives, it is clear that the Government is keen on promoting folk sports in primary schools. Owing to changes in cultural identity, it has transferred the traditional sport to localized folk sport. To put it last but not the least, the effect of folk sport promotion is still limited due to the unsolved difficulties in teaching materials, expense and recruiting teachers. | en_US |