Improvement of Student's General Physical Preparation for Service in Police. Summary of the Doctoral Thesis
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2009
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Latvian Academy of Sport Education
Abstract
Evolution of new Technologies in the world, also in Latvia, reduces to minimum physical activities, but the psychological load increases. Accordingly a contradiction arises between mental and physical development of young people, because at the age from 7 to 23 years or more, youngster spends a lot of time in the educational institutions doing intellectual and mental work. Since the retrieval of independence of Latvia and transition to market economy, when changes came into different spheres of activities, changes started in the sphere of education and they are still in progress. Retrieval of independence and change of socio-economic formation created preconditions for the modifications in social, educational and pedagogical paradigm. The dominant values changed. The educational environment in Latvia now had become an integral part of educational environment of European Union and that influenced changes in educational environment of higher educational establishments. Lot of new public and private higher educational establishments have been established in Latvia. Sports activities are not included in curriculum of newly-established higher education institutions. Therefore it is important that the young person didn't loose his interest of physically active and healthy lifestyle during his studies, which are often accompanied by work, and improved the knowledge of sport, obtained in school. It means not only improvement and development of different motive and motor activities, i.e., training, but also teaching and improving interest about physical activities and their diversity, about physical preparedness as an integral part of professional qualification and about individual training. In other countries of Europe and world, physical health and possibilities of physically active and healthy lifestyle are in governmental and intergovernmental charge. For example, Council of Europe acts within the framework of European Cultural Convention. To support the idea of sport, Council of Europe acts in several directions that are approved in the Council of Europe Summit in 1997 in Strasbourg [42]: • recognise the role of sport in promoting social integration, particularly among young people, • develop tolerance through sport and protect the sport from serious threats. Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) co-ordinates the execution of this Convention, leads programs of work and organizes the conferences of European Ministers responsible for Sport. Results of rigorous studies have shown a linkage between physical exercises and health. Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) has initiated several measures to encourage healthy lifestyle and active participation in sports activities, for example, it has developed Eurofit complex [46, 50]. It is a complex of physical exercises, provided to acquire the ability of strength, speed, flexibility, tenacity and coordination. This complex is developed for the school age children and has been used in European schools since 1988 [49]. Eurofit test for adults was developed in 1995 [46]. Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) organizes different activities (training and educational seminars) to propagate principles, expressed in Sport Charter, and to stimulate practical application of Charter’s Articles in specific matters, for example: • protecting sport from bad influences (fight against intolerance, support to sportsmanship and fair play); • anti - discrimination in sport (spreading information about Sports for all Charter and use of it’s principles regarding persons with reduced mobility and women); • popularizing the idea of interconnectedness between sport and health; • protecting the role of sport in youth education, on a basis of Lisbon manifest in 1995; • researches of economic impact of sport.
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The Doctoral Thesis was developed at Institute of Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of University of Latvia and in Latvian Academy of Sport Education, in the period of time from 2001 to 2008, the practical part of research – in Police Academy of Latvia. Defence: at the public session of the Promotion Council of Sports Sciences on 3 July 2009 at 11.00 in the room 205., LASE (Brivibas gatve 333, Riga).
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Summary of the Doctoral Thesis, physical preparation of students, physical preparedness of students, physical activity, improving professional preparedness of students
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Kravalis, I. 2009. Improvement of Student's General Physical Preparation for Service in Police: Summary of the Doctoral Thesis: Sub-Sector – Sports pedagogy. Rīga: Latvian Academy of Sport Education. https://doi.org/10.25143/prom-rsu-lspa_2009-02_dts