Kinesiology and Sustainable Development / Kineziologija i održivi razvoj

Abstract

The United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000), defining achievable goals directed towards sustainable development until 2015, includes the following: 1) To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, 2) To achieve universal primary education, that is to ensure access to education for all, 3) To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, 4) To decrease the mortality rate of newborns and children, 5) To improve mothers' health, 6) To fight against HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases, 7) To ensure environmental sustainability, and 8) To develop global partnership, i.e. co-operation for the purpose of development as a strategic commitment planned until 2015. The current global goals are: 1) World without poverty, 2) World without hunger, 3) Health and well-being, 4) Quality education, 5) Gender equality, 6) Clean water and sanitation, 7) Affordable and clean energy, 8) Decent work and economic growth, 9) Industry, innovation and infrastructure, 10) Reduced inequalities, 11) Sustainable cities and communities, 12) Responsible consumption and production, 13) Climate protection, 14) Preservation of life below water, 15) Preservation of life on land, 16) Peace, justice and strong institutions, and 17) Strengthening the global partnership for sustainable development. These goals are the guiding principles of today's globalized world. The issues associated with sustainable development are not exclusively related to a single scientific area or one group of scientific disciplines. The universal issues presented through the millennium and global goals are also the issues dealt with by kinesiology and all its applied sciences. Particular focus is on the issues pertaining to the formation of environmental awareness connected with a positive attitude toward health benefits of physical exercise. Kinesiology contents, aside from health benefits, the impact on the quality of education, and confirmed economic values are not in collision with other proclaimed goals of sustainable development, which is the only option that guarantees survival.

Gender Differences In Development Of Explosive Power And Rapidity In Schoolchildren Aged 14-15 Years Old

“…As it has been previously pointed out, boys have achieved better results than girls in explosive power. It is expected that morphological differences are distinguished by systems of motor manifestations (Prskalo, Samac and Kvesić, 2009;Prskalo and Sporiš, 2016), because morphological characteristics are the basis for the later formation and development of motor skills (Breslauer, Delija and Jelenić, 2004;Di Cagno et al, 2009;Dedaj, 2011;Torlaković, 2014). The negative effect of body weight, and especially subcutaneous fat tissue, on success in the realization of various motor tasks was confirmed in a large number of scientific researches (Mota et al, 2002;Deforche et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2005;Strel, 2006;Stojanović et al, 2012), but not on explosiveness and speed that are highly genetically determined.…”

Kineziologija i održiva budućnost

“…Moreover, as today there are virtually no "pure" sciences, it is evident that kinesiology as a young discipline is "doomed" to interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity as presented by Hoffman (2009), pointing to the need for multidisciplinarity, and there certainly is room for a broader view of the multidisciplinary area of kinesiology (Prskalo & Sporiš, 2016). It is this approach that provides an important place for kinesiology, as a fundamental science, and its subdisciplines in contributing to sustainable development (Prskalo, 2018).…”

“…Uz te vrijednosti koje ostvaruje putem nastavnog predmeta koji po svim znanstvenim utemeljenjima treba imati naziv kineziološka kultura, kineziološka edukacija ima niz potvrđenih vrijednosti u ostvarenju niza antropoloških, obrazovnih i odgojnih zadaća, pa postaje čak i uporište različitih kreposti uključujući i religioznost (Prskalo, 2017), definiranu kao subjektivno duševno stanje, određen životni stil i dosljednost u vjeri (Enciklopedijski teološki rječnik, 2009). Prskalo (2018) ističe kako problematika održivog razvoja, sadržana u Milenijskoj deklaraciji Ujedinjenih naroda s ciljevima ostvarivim do 2015. godine te današnjem trenutku primjenjivim ciljevima (Državni zavod za statistiku i sur., 2006;Pavić-Rogošić, 2016), svijet bez siromaštva i gladi, zdravlje i blagostanje, kvalitetno obrazovanje, spolna ravnopravnost, čista voda i sanitarni uvjeti, pristupačna energija iz čistih izvora, dostojanstven rad i ekonomski rast, industrija, inovacije i infrastruktura, smanjenje nejednakosti, održivi gradovi i zajednice, odgovorna potrošnja i proizvodnja, zaštita klime, očuvanje života na zemlji, mir, pravda i snažne institucije te učvrstiti globalno partnerstvo za održivi razvoj, nije isključivo povezana s jednim znanstvenim područjem i jednom disciplinom. Naprotiv, ta problematika je problematika kineziologije i svih njenih primijenjenih područja.…”

“…In addition to the values realized within the school subject, whose name should be kinesiology culture because of its scientific foundations, the value of kinesiology education has been confirmed in accomplishing a series of anthropological and educational tasks, and has even become the basis of different virtues including religion (Prskalo, 2017), which may be defined as a subjective state of mind, a certain lifestyle and consistency in faith (Enciklopedijski teološki rječnik, 2009). Prskalo (2018) points out that the issues of sustainable development contained in the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, with the goals attainable by 2015 and the ones applicable today (Državni zavod za statistiku et al, 2006;Pavić-Rogošić, 2016), such as world without poverty and hunger, health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable energy from clean sources, dignified work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, reducing inequalities, sustainable cities and communities, responsible spending and production, climate protection, preservation of life on Earth, peace, justice and strong institutions, and consolidation of global partnership for sustainable development, are not exclusively related to one scientific area or discipline. On the contrary, these issues belong to the field of kinesiology and all its applied fields.…”

Motor-functional profile of footballers of junior and cadet age

“…Functional abilities are defined through the efficiency of aerobic and anaerobic mechanisms, ie. basic energy processes for endurance of the organism (Prskalo & Sporiš, 2016). Aerobic capacity of athletes is the general ability of the neuromuscular system to train with a given intensity, longer than usual (Stojanović et al, 2006), which indicates the general degree of metabolic processes that occur in the human body and represents most of the total energy capacity .…”