Abstract
The paper deals with a formation, a development and a current position of an interdisciplinary scientific subdicipline Pedagogy of Sport. Within above mentioned facts, authors focuse mainly on a historical development of the subdiscipline when they find that Pedagogy of Sport is tightly connected with P. de Coubertin and the idea of Olympism.
The paper also works with a placement of Pedagogy of Sport into a current system of scientific disciplines and emphasized its social importance. The paper also includes a comparation of approaches to Pedagogy of Sport in foreign countries.
Goals of the paper are oriented on a description of an origin and a development of Pedagogy of Sport and also on an analysis of its importance in Czech Republic. Methodological background is formed by the content analysis of relevant documents.
The text is processed mainly by a diachronical procedure. Authors find that Pedagogy of Sport is in current times highly needed scientific subdicipline from a wide social point of view (a continuity of Coubertin ideas) as well as from a practical point of view (preparation of future physical education teachers).
Unfortunately, this importance is not always reflected in an inclusion of Pedagogy of Sport into the curriculum of important educational institutions.