Management of the Specific Curriculum of Sports Games - Sand Volleyball – at the Elementary Extended Day Programme School in Greece

Abstract

The impetuous development of contemporary society requires reconsideration in the process of preparing the individual for life, a process that can not be conceived without qualitative changes in the educational contents. Given the fact that physical education in schools is one of the determining factors in preparing students for their incorporation into society, a continuous improvement of the educational process is therefore necessary. The secondary school curriculum can be improved by changing the system of competing in school contests in different branches and tasks of sports (Paraskeyopoulos 1984, Hatziharistos 1990, Zervas, 1994,). The game, held as a competition, through its analytical competitive influencing specific content, has the potential to train the socio-psycho-motor abilities of students, together with self-evaluation, self-awareness, self-assertion attitudes, and value orientation of their personality. This new system of conducting school competitions can be achieved in a much more efficient manner the aspects related to the increasing number of sportsmen and school competitions, the cancellation of the competition system which implied the elimination of the defeated team/athlete, the decreasing of the real-time necessary for the competition due to fast movements within the zone with the immediate result of decrease the number of hours spent away from the school of the students involved in the competitions and so on (Papageorgiou, Spitzley1994).