The Role of Basketball in Achieving the Objectives of Physical Education and Sport

Abstract

The physical education lessons have as an objective learning the basketball elements and procedures that must respect the specific methodical principles of physical education by building a strong motile basis. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the role of specific basketball means in the physical education lesson to influence the physical development of junior high pupils. The paper’s hypothesis comes from the premise that promoting certain methods and means specific to the basketball game within the physical education lesson enhances the stimulation and emulative character of the latter determining significant alterations of the physical development parameters. In the study, we have used specific basketball means implemented within the physical education lessons, for a class with the normal program (VI), statistically following the dynamic evolution of the physical development in the children. The study was done during one semester. In order to evaluate the contribution of the specific basketball methods within the physical education lessons, we have used the test battery EUROFIT.