2014 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 21-33
The purpose of this paper is to raise several issues in connection with the coaching and teaching, with the use of violence, of sport in Japan. This is done by examining perspectives of the historical study of physical education and sport, and the training of physical education teachers.
The suggestions from this paper are summarized as follows:
1)The most important point to note is that we need to have a sense of “self-reflection” toward the coaching and teaching of sport with violence, that we need to recognize that the origins of these problems come from within physical education and sport
2)The explanation that the coaching and teaching of sport with violence in Japan came from the military system is well known, but when and how this became part of the educational process is not known. Therefore we must show a historical fact based on historical materials.
3)The reason why the historical study of coaching and teaching with violence in sport could not develop is that we had ignored the method of historical study of modern problems. So we need to pay attention to this method.
4)We must exchange views with many people who know nothing about physical education and sport in order to construct new creative methods for coaching and teaching without violence in all fields of physical education and sport.
5)The attention to students' attitude toward lectures for the training of physical education teachers in college is more important than the reform of curricula.
As a final point, this paper should emphasize that the elimination of the coaching and teaching with violence of sport in Japan will be difficult to implement and may take a great deal of time.
