VALUABLE FUNCTIONS OF SPORT IN THE TEACHING OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Sports represent an immensely valuable factor which contributes to the formation of a complete personality of an individual and their desirable social traits, while doing sports assumes a healthier, longer life of a higher quality. The aim of this paper is to observe sports once again from the point of their important value functions through theoretical analysis and as an additional incentive for a better understanding of the teachers about its significance, its organization and realization, through physical education classes or through various other sports/recreational activities. The paper offers analyses of the health, educational, social and cultural functions of sports. Numerous definitions of sports imply the wide role it intrinsically carries. Professional, amateur, recreational, school sports, just to name a few, clearly demonstrate to what extent and where it exists. There are many reasons for doing sports from the earliest age. Building and preserving health potentials, developing the body, employing sports as a leisure activity, leveraging sports to make friends and deepen existing friendships, achieving inclusion into the wider social community, and developing the positive team spirit, are just a few of the advantages it brings. Through organized exercise, various physical activities, i.e. sports in their entirety, a physically, psychologically and socially stable and strong individual is formed, and by extension an entire nation. This is exactly the immeasurable role of sports that can seldom be achieved to such an extent by other spheres of life.