Motivation,Predicament and Implementation Path of Integrating Sports and Education in the New Era

The article studies the Integration of Sports and Education. It employs research methods of literature review and inductive analysis from the aspects of its origin, predicament and implementation paths to gain a better understanding. Through analysing the roots of sports and education, the developing systems of the two sectors, the theoretical foundation of their integration and new meaning, it finds that a series of policy documents issued by the state from 1987 to 2020 provided the institutional foundation for the development of the Integration of Sports and Education, and the New Era has given new connotations to the Integration of Sports and Education in terms of value, function and purpose. Based on these findings, this study analyses the driving factors for the Integration of Sports and Education in the New Era from the aspects of policy, development and demand. The study unveils Integration of Sports and Education also facing dilemmas: 1) the unstructured multi-subject co-governance system, the blurred concept of the two sectors integration, limited space for further development; 2) the inclination to utilitarianism of education, the deteriorated social environment for reforming and developing the two sectors' integration; 3) departmental bureaucratic thinking is still in place coupled with lack of overall planning and inspiration. In response to the above issues at the same time according to the fact that blurred boundaries of sport and education when the two emerged, the paper points out that to build an ecosystem of integrated sports and education sectors based on one's self-reliant as the foundation, symbiosis of both as the norm and regeneration as the vision. Following the advanced logic of self-reliant-symbiosis-regeneration, it proposes to construct a shared platform and regeneration system for the Integration of Sports and Education, expanding their development fields, reforming the evaluation system, improving publicity to reverse the inclination to utilitarianism of education, creating a good atmosphere for the Integration of Sports and Education; to eliminate departmental bureaucratic thinking and strengthening the overall planning in order to stimulate the vitality of the two sectors' integration as well as to release their multiplier effect of implementation paths. It also asserts that it is necessary to provide guarantees in the areas of institutional support, resource optimization, policy refinement, common platforms building and human resource.