Journal "Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kul'tury" at the turn of XX-XXI centuries (1998–2004)

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Ph.D., Associate Professor S.A. Pronin
National State University of Physical Culture, Sport and Health named after P.F. Lesgaft, St. Petersburg

           

Keywords: Lyudmila Ivanovna Lubysheva, journal "Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury", organizational problems of sports science.

Due to the inadequate macroeconomic policy pursued by B.N. Yeltsin, a severe economic crisis took place on 17 August 1998 in Russia. By that time the organization of the Russian sports science had already totally collapsed [1, 4].

In October 1998 Professor Lyudmila Ivanovna Lubysheva, working on the editorial staff of the journal since 1993 and acting Chief Editor since October 1997, was officially approved Head of the journal "Teoriya i Praktika Fizicheskoy Kultury". Under the advisory guidance of V.K. Bal'sevich she defended her doctoral thesis [3] and received the title Professor (1996). Vadim Konstantinovich Bal'sevich, who had been successfully heading the editorial board for nine years (1989 - 1997), became the scientific adviser of the journal and focused on the scientific and conceptual issues of development of TPFK.

In 2000 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin became President of the Russian Federation. The helm of the country was taken by a fundamentally new team which employed other, more efficient approaches in its activities. At this time Pavel Alexeevich Rozhkov became Chairman of the Russia’s State Committee for Sports. Reared in the sports academic community, P.A. Rozhkov started to successfully apply systemic scientific approaches to revitalize the national physical culture and sports movement. He became as of yet the only so high-ranking sports official to have used the pages of the TPFK Journal as a medium for seeking overall judgment of his views on that problem [9].

However, the renaissance appeared to be rather short-lived. Owing to high-level political reasons an outstanding national hockey player, Viacheslav Alexandrovich Fetisov was appointed Head of the State Committee for Sports. Generally, he continued to pursue P.A. Rozhkov’s undertakings, but due to the inefficient leadership failed to accomplish them.

Confronted with a situation when both the sponsorship and the governmental aid were abruptly curtailed, the Journal found itself in need of new financing sources to keep its production process going. Editor-in-Chief L.I. Lubysheva made an unconventional marketing move, when the editorial board started, figuratively speaking, leasing out certain issues of the Journal by providing the Journal pages to the representatives of different organizations for them to publish articles on the occasions of their anniversaries. This considerably increased the Journal circulation, and, consequently, the financial proceeds.

Little by little, the share of such issues in the annual register exceeded 50%. Later on regular page groups "Tatarstan - science and sport" (2005 - 2010) and "Yugra - science and sport" (2010 up to now) appear in the journal. This publishing area was popular due to much higher printing quality of the journal, so quality photos could be published in the journal, giving it a new, original image.

However, such practice highlighted several problems. The thing was that from 1980s a constant decrease of the share of articles dedicated to sports was observed with a respective growth of the share of articles dedicated to the problems of physical culture. By early XXI century the ratio between these components had changed from the 4 to 1 ratio down to 1 to 1 (Fig. 4). And the rates of this tendency are irreversible as of yet [8].

An important factor, which significance with regard to the aforementioned trend is prevailing and constantly increasing, are publications of the lecturers of educational establishments (which are, as a rule, placed in the leased out issues) that are predominantly dedicated to the problems which higher educational establishments face. Such a situation, in the first approximation, does not cause any serious concern insofar as the fundamental theories (of sports, physical education and physical culture) being taught in the sports higher educational establishments were created to satisfy the needs of the educational process for the purposes of creating a conceptual toolset required for efficient activities of an educator. Unfortunately, the major portion of such publications is dedicated to organizational problems. This is because the educational and experimental infrastructure of the physical culture higher educational establishments has become extremely outdated and there are actually no facilities left for carrying out scientific researches. All this brought to the fact that the content of the physical education became stagnant.

Insofar as the key driving force of the sports science development lies in the integration with other scientific fields [5], the assistance in overcoming the above-mentioned stagnation could be rendered by higher educational establishments with other academic profiles. But they also face numerous problems [2], the foremost of which is deeply rooted "unprogressiveness" of the scientific researches conducted, primarily, in the framework of the students’ physical education.

Some other negative tendencies emerged at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries as well. The share of the TPFK Journal’s pedagogical and medicobiological articles which are primarily prepared on the basis of the materials derived from experimental research have decreased by over than 20%, while the share of the articles dedicated to theoretical and methodological topics has been growing, respectively; the level of growth of the number of new authors of the articles has reduced by almost three times; qualitative deterioration in the dynamics of the number of initial word forms (lexical units) used in the articles was observed [7].

What was pinpointed in the array of the TPFK Journal publications is not a reason, but a consequence of a poor condition in which the national sport science found itself. The analysis of the theses dedicated to the problems of physical culture and sport revealed similar tendencies [6]. All of this indicates that the organizational breakdown of the national sport science started to metastasize into its content, too.

References

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  6. Pronin, S.A. Analiz dokumental'nogo potoka dissertatsiy po problemam fizicheskoy kul'tury i sporta (Analysis of documentary flow of physical culture and sports related theses) / S.A. Pronin // Teoriya i praktika fiz. kultury. – 2007. – № 6. – P. 60–62.
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  8. Pronin, S.A. Evolyutsiya tematiki publikatsiy zhurnala «Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kul'tury» (1925–2009 gg.) (Evolution of themes of publications in the journal "Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury" (1925-2009) / S.A. Pronin // Teoriya i praktika fiz. kultury. – 2010. – № 9. – P. 6–9.
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