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Physical education is usefully placed into the whole of culture, of
education. The educational alignment of all the literary work on physical
education, including the literature on sports, is typical of our
time, since it emphasizes the great importance of education.
The consideration of man as a unity consisting of a soul and a body
characterizes in particular the fundamental literary work on physical
education.
The close relation of theory and practice, which is especially apparent
in the cooperation of the "meditators" of physical education
with the practical man. Theory thereby actually becomes a "view proceeding
from practice". Also distinctly recognizable is the tendency,
not to give prescription in the literary work, not only to report and write
down facts, but rather to pose problems and to inspire to own activity.
Typical for fundamental literature is the transcendence of the mere
professional and the abandonment of the narrow professional boundaries
A frankness and honesty is also peculiar to modern literature;
moreover, there is nothing "taboo" any more.
Again and again, the thing which is common to all, the uniting
element is emphasized in the literature of the present; comparative
observations are made as well. The human feature of our time corresponds
to the positive attitude in regard to new and other, unacquainted
things. The rebuilding tendency is plainly recognizable. Also consciously
desired is the contemplative mark, the emphasis of the "education of
the heart"
The import of modern physical aducation, the cultural arrangement
is manifested in illustrated books, which - with regard to idea or
presentation - are turned out excellently. The pocketbook has seized
also the field of physical education.
MODERN BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTATION
The quality and abundance of literature lead to a fundamental
reorganization of bibliography as well as to the foundation of documentation
in the filed of physical education. The collecting and recording
of newly published books no longer suffices. Literature - as a basis
of progress - must be ordered bibliographically in such a way that it
can easily and quickly be found and evaluated. The new literary work.
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