Study of the feasibility of offering the course of hip hop dancing in Institute

School of Physical Education,Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450004

Abstract. The hip hop dancing is both fashionable and can show personality and also is injected of the popular elements, so it is much popular among the students and the young people. The author carries out the analysis and discussion from the body-building and heart-building characters of the hip hop dancing as well as the attitudes of the students towards the course setting of the hip hop dancing. The introduction of the hip hop into the PE courses is a positive attempt on the reform of the college sports curriculum project. In addition, the hip hop is closely linked to the aerobics, and if we set up the hip hop dancing in the sports institutions, there will be good results. This paper takes Huanghe Science and Technology College as the research object, and researches and discusses the feasibility for the college to set up the course of the hip hop dancing. The author points out the problems and suggestions of the course of the hip hop dancing, and provides the reference for the Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College to set up the hip hop dancing.

Keywords: Hip hop dancing, Huanghe Science and Technology College, personality

1. Introduction

1-1. Problem Presentation

With the change of the ideas of the people and under the promotion of economic development, the exchanges of the international sports are more convenient, and there emerge more and more new sports items, so the sports curriculum is showing a trend of diversification. These sports projects have also been recognized by the people, such as hip hop, yoga, climbing, and Parkour and so on. The popularity of these projects makes the college sports curriculum facing new problems and challenges. For the quality education today, if the colleges and universities do not carry out the curriculum reform of the physical education, it will affect the exchange of the students with the society and will even cause the derailment. But for the college students, if they cannot contact well with the society and accept the new trend of the new era, then they will become the victim of the survival of the fittest, and they will be at a disadvantage in the competition. Furthermore, the hip hop dancing can have a very good role in promoting the students' learning, because in the practice of the hip-hop, they can alleviate the pressure of the study, and at the same time, it can also better shape the body, which will do a lot of good for the physical and mental health of the students. Based on the research on the level of understanding and the preference of the students majored in the physical education in Huanghe Science and Technology College on the curriculum of the hip hop dancing, the author of this paper analyzes the feasibility of establishing the course of the hip hop dancing in the Institute of Physical Education, which provides a theoretical basis for the Institute of Physical Education to set up the course of the hip hop dance.

1-2. Research objectives and meanings

In this paper, by analyzing the features and functions of the hip hop of hip hop, the author investigates and researches the level of understanding and preference of the students on the hip hop dancing, and combined with the actual situation of the Institute of Physical Education in this college, the author provides the theoretical basis for the successful setting up of the course of the hip hop dancing in our sports college.

2. The research objects and the research methods

2-1. The research objects

Taking the attitude of the students majored in the sports education in Huanghe Science and Technology College towards the course of the hip hop dancing as the object of study, the author investigates and interviews the students in Grade 2009 and 2011 majored in the physical education at the Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College. There are 67 students majored in sports, education in Grade 2009, while there is a total of 63 students in Grade 2011 majored in the physical education. This research adopts the random sampling method, and 50 questionnaires were issued to the students in the two classes respectively, with a total of 100 questionnaires.

2-2. Research methods

2-2-1. The method of literature

Search "Chinese journal" and "Wanfang database" through the library network in Huanghe Science and Technology College, and refer to the latest articles and doctoral thesis related to the hip hop dancing published in various magazines. On this basis, the author conducts detailed reading and study on more than 20 articles, and provides a theoretical basis for the analysis.

2-2-2. Questionnaire survey

Before this survey, the author makes the questionnaire related to the research. In December, 2012, 50 questionnaires were issued respectively to the students in Grade 2009 and 2011 in the Institute of Physical Education, with a total of 100 questionnaires. The author recovered 48 questionnaires from Grade 2009, and 47 copies of the questionnaires from Grade 2011, with a total of 95, and the recovery rate is 95% with 95 valid questionnaires, and the efficiency of the questionnaire is 100%.

2-2-3. Interviewing method

The author had some interviews with the teachers in the Institute of the Physical Education and the professional street dance teachers by visiting and telephone connection, to obtain the required analysis of the writing, and then the author analyzed and sorted out this information.

2-2-4. Data statistics

The author conducted the necessary statistics on the obtained data, and then analyzed and summarized the data in the form of the percentage.

3. Results and analysis

3-1. The extent of understandings of the students on the hip hop

Table 1 The extent of understandings of the students on the hip hop dancing (N=95)

Table 2 Whether the students have participated in a hip-hop dance (N=95)

Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College issued 100 questionnaires, and effectively recovered 95 copies. Among these 95 students receiving the survey, 58.9% of the students have the basic understanding of the sorts of the hip hop (see Table 1), and along with the development of the technology and communication, the students have a wide access to the hip hop and understand more about it. But because of the influence of many practical reasons, the education of hip hop has many practical barriers in the practice. The education concepts of a lot of college PE teachers haven’t been updated, and at the same time, some older teachers know little about the hip-hop, which is obviously lagging behind the students. The realistic obstacles are mainly manifested in the following two points. First, the development of the hip hop education needs to have the corresponding hardware settings, and at the same time, there are the requirements of the space and the personnel. Second, the fashion demand of the modern people is manifested in the accessing to the healthy beauty, but it is also the real reason why the hip-hop is so popular. So the emergence and the rapid development are also an inevitable social phenomenon.

Hip hop is a newly emerging sports item. During the investigation, we know that only 11.6% of the students know it well and will take part in this sport, and those who have participated in the hip hop movement account only for 18.9% (see Table 2). Few people master the hip-hop, and even fewer people are capable of the hip-hop teaching. These have formed a lot of favorable and unfavorable factors in the promotion of the teaching of the hip hop dance in college students. Because the hip-hop is not popular, for the students, they only have the basic understandings, but cannot fully understand. The PE teachers need to introduce the hip hop into the teaching in colleges and universities, to convey the positive, individualized, and the vital spirits to the students. Under the guidance of the teachers, the students will have more interests to further understand the hip-hop, and learn the hip-hop.

3-2. The hypothetical selection and the selection purposes of the students on the elective hip hop of hip hop

The hip-hop, which even can be said to be the synonym of the vitality of the young, have a sense of temptation and attraction to the college students, and the most important, is that we can integrate our own innovation, and in the actions and the way of performance, it is not so observant of the conventional standards. Based on the elective courses that the Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College has set up, add the elective course of the hip hop dancing, the result of which is that most students will choose this course of the hip hop dancing (see Table 3). According to this result, the vast majority of the students will choose the course of the hip hop dancing, which also shows that the image and attractiveness of the hip hop in the mind of the students are great, and especially the hip hop value and the aesthetic value are especially obvious.

Through the statistics, 84.2% of the students choose the youthful and healthier fashion, and 52.6% of the students choose it because of the strong musical accompaniment, while 44.2% of the students choose the graceful arbitrary (see Table 2). As can be understood through the data in the above table, now the college students in the Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College prefer the new method of physical education, and more attention has paid to the teaching subject with the new atmosphere. Our country has been developing the national hip hop campaign, which provides a good opportunity for the development of the hip hop dancing, and it is also the essential requirements of the construction of the socialist spiritual civilization. In the learning process, the students should focus on the studies, and the campus life should embody the rich and colorful features. Both the selection and the interest have the personalized needs. By comparison, the hip hop is a very good platform and medium. Not only can it be pleasurable to the body and the mind, and improve the physical qualities, but it also can provide a good opportunity for the development of the students later, with the features of the nationwide hip hop campaign.

From the survey results, in the 95 valid questionnaires recovered, 90% of the students have a different degree of understanding of the hip hop dancing, and 84.2% of the students choose the elective hip hop dancing because the hip hop dancing is full of youthful vitality, health and fashion. And in the selection hypothesis of all the elective courses, 25.3% of the students choose the hip hop dancing, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the total number. Thus, the hip hop dancing has a certain influence on the minds of the students, which also provides broad bases of the students for Huanghe College to set up the course of the hip hop dancing.

3-3. Attitudes of the students towards the hip hop dancing into the elective classes

Table 5 Attitudes of the students towards the hip hop dancing into the elective classes (N=95)

According to the statistics, 55.8% of the students are very supportive of the hip hop dancing into the elective courses, and 35.8% of the students also choose to support (see Table 5). As can be seen from the attitudes of the students towards the hip hop dancing entering the elective classes, the hip hop is fit for the new ideas for the teaching reform of PE, and the implementation of the hip hop dancing is also in line with the characteristics of the PE teaching reform, which has the potential role in promoting and influencing the teaching reform of the physical education. Therefore, the vast majority of students are in favor of the hip hop dancing into the elective classes.

3-4. The guarantee of the teaching staff and the faculties and facilities

Table 6 The attitudes of the students towards the guarantee of the teaching staff for our school to offer hip hop dancing at present (N=95)

Table 7 The attitudes of the students towards our school, offering the facilities for the hip hop dancing (N=95)

There are currently no professional teachers for the hip hop dancing in Huanghe Science and Technology College, but we can use the existing teachers of the aerobics and the dancing and the resource for the students in our school who are competent in the hip hop teaching. As can be seen from the statistics, the student can accept the teaching staff in our institute. 21.1% of the students think that the teachers can meet the demands, and 48.4% of the students think they can basically meet the demands (see Table 6). However, there are still 24.2% of the students thinking that we need more professional teachers for the hip hop dancing in our school. The professional teachers can be hired from the outside, and we also can conduct the professional training of the teachers available, so that our hip hop dancing can have a better development.

The course of the hip hop dancing has not very high requirements for the facilities and fields, and it only needs to have a quiet dance room, and better sound equipment, which can basically meet the demands. According to the statistics, 24.2% of the students think that our college has met the requirement of the facilities, and 52.6% of the students think it could basically meet the demands, while 16.8% of the students think that our college should make some preparations for the facilities (see Table 7).

3-5. The problems that the setting up of the hip hop dancing needs to solve

The main problem with the implementation of the hip hop dancing is the lack of teachers. 89.5% of the students think that teachers are the main problems of the course (see Table 8). But along with the process of the reform of the university sports curriculum, hip hop and other more and more new projects will gradually enter the university sports classrooms. This requires the university PE teachers should keep pace with the times, and continually improve, in order to adapt to the new teaching programs. In addition, the problem of the site is also the main problem the students care about.

3-6. Characteristics of the hip hop dancing

Through visits to the special instructor Zheng Bin in the Zhengzhou GPS Hip Hop Club, the author sums up the following characteristics: (1) the hip hop and diversity. Hip hop, as a fashionable, hip hop activity, naturally, has the feature of hip hop as other sports. Long-term adherence can improve the functions of the heart and the lung, improve the sensitivity of the nervous systems, shape the good postures, improve the exercise capacity, and improve the quality of life. And hip-hop has the diversity in the forms and the extensiveness of the staff, and whether the young or the elderly can be a part of it, including younger children. (2) The artistic quality of the hip hop dancing. Hip hop dancing itself is a bold, integrating health, strength, beauty, and technology into one, combined with various artistic elements, through the technical movements of the dancers, and exerts the strong aesthetic and artistic influence. So, let the audience bathed in the sea of art, which reflects the skills of the hip hop dancing. (3) The compatibility of the hip hop dancing. Hip hop is a kind of deep and wide dance. By the learning and innovation, try to add many new actions to them. Through the implementation of the reform and innovation of the hip hop dancing itself, eventually form the hip hop of the world, and in the process of the development and succession, continue to absorb new blood and nutrients, so that it can continue to sublimate. (4) The freedom of the hip hop dancing. The hip hop dancing has no age limit, and regardless of the time, place, and the environmental constraints, the dancers are free to choose. (5) The innovation of the hip hop dancing. The hip hop dancing can be of various forms, and the dancers win the game in the games through their own innovative actions. The most important of dancing is the innovation, and the hip hop dancing has more advantages in innovation, and we can show the meaning of their charm and dance according to the individual characters.

3-7. The functions of the hip hop dancing

Through visits to the special instructor Zheng Bin in the Zhengzhou GPS Hip Hop Club, the author sums up the following functions: (1) The function of hip hop. The hip hop dancing belongs to the sports item, and is the aerobic exercise. In the hip hop dancing, not only will we exercise the hands and the feet and other body parts, but is also requires the application of various joints. In this way, it can well promote the body's flexibility and sensitivity, and coordinate the balance of the humans, and also it can create the perfect body. (2) The function of healthy heart. The hip hop dancing is usually accompanied by the music, so that not only can we edify the sentiment, but also we can improve the aesthetic abilities. In addition, when we exercise the hip hop dancing, we can innovate the actions of the dance and highlight the characteristics of our own according to our own imagination and personality, which can play the role of the heart health. (3) The comprehensive development of students’ personalities. The most prominent feature of the hip hop dancing itself is the innate creativity, which does not need a fixed style and pattern. The feelings of dancing are different, and the process of the dancing is to relax and release the self, celebrate our individuality, and let the hip hop dancing became the most unusual ways of leisure of the students.

If the students attentively exercise the hip hop dancing, then we must play our imagination and creativity, otherwise we cannot have our own beauty and connotation of the dance, so it will promote the comprehensive abilities of the college students to a new level. But when we dance, we will contact with the outside world, and can rapidly improve our social abilities, which is essential to the overall development of the students.

4. Conclusions and suggestions

4-1. Conclusions

4-1-1. It is conducive to the development of the students' physical and mental health and personality to set up the course of the hip hop dancing.

4-1-2. The students love and support the setting of the course of the hip hop dancing.

4-1-3. There is no specific teaching materials and a shortage of the facilities. Although there are some colleges and universities having the course of the hip hop dancing, most of them are based on the aerobics or the dancing classes, without the specific sites, and there are no special teaching materials. Therefore, there is no way to complete the teaching work of the hip hop dancing, and nor can we guarantee the quality of the classrooms.

4-2. Suggestions

4-2-1. Solve the problems of the teaching materials and the facilities of the hip hop dancing. In the teaching, if there are even no basic textbooks, how can we carry out the teaching? The teaching without the teaching materials is equal to the water without the source and the tree without the roots. So, if the Institute of Physical Education of Huanghe Science and Technology College wants to introduce the hip hop dancing into the classrooms, the hardware facilities and the sites are the most.

4-2-2. Strengthen the school teaching staff of the hip-hop. At present, the teaching staff of the course of the hip hop dancing in our college is relatively weak, so we should increase the training of the teachers of the hip hop dancing. We should organize more training courses for the instructors of the hip hop dancing, and cultivate a batch of qualified coaches of the hip hop dance.

4-2-3. Select the right actions of the hip hop dancing to teach. There are many kinds and factions of the hip-hop. According to the movement types, it can be divided into the technical class and the dance type. According to the background, it is divided into the New School Hip-Hop and the Old School Hip-Hop. According to the national cultural differences, it can be divided into the style of Europe and the United States and the style of Japan. But in our country, the hip-hop is mainly composed of the hip hop dancing and the hip hop dancing. So, in the choice of the courses, we need to consider all aspects of the students to decide the movements and styles of the hip hop.

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