The Investigation of Expansion Plan on the Elementary School's Equestrian Education

Purpose In order to realize the various values of horseback riding in elementary school education, investigating the policy of horseback riding, the function and competency aspects of physical education, and the educational feasibilities of equestrian education from an integrated perspective. Method Analyze the policy about expansion of equestrian education, Analysis from the perspective of competency and functional improvement which are the major part of the physical education in Korea and an integrated viewpoint which is a characteristic of elementary school education. Results The regulation about use of the riding equipment and the equestrian education safety rules should be established. And in the case of big cities, it is necessary to use horseback riding machines instead of riding a horse. Horseback riding can give the positive effect to students. horseback riding is the good material of the leisure activities and helpful to cultivate the self-directed health management ability, the training ability which sustains physical and mental training and the aesthetic emotional competency such as experiencing beauty while working with horses. Also horseback riding can increase the educational effect through direct physical activity and various in-directed experience activities like reading, writing, searching, appreciating, etc. Conclusion Considering recent innovative changing of science technology and the education, applying the new scientific technology to the horseback riding is the good chance to overcome the educational limitation like visiting horseback riding course at a long distance, falling while horseback riding, restricting horseback riding opportunities, and etc. And following-up studies are needed how to apply the new scientific technology to equestrian education more specifically and how to establish the application environment to develop the program for this.