Abstract:

The paper titled “Sports and Health Education Policy Development for Citizenship Education in Nigeria as an Appraisal of the Fore-Runners of Physical Education” was written. Issues galvanized to irk out the variables appreciative of citizenship education are: (i) Greek physical education and values, (ii) Physical education philosophers (iii) Physical education in Nigeria (iv) Reason for underdevelopment of sports in Nigeria (v) Concept of sports as courage, love and peace medium (vi) Behaviour as the aftermath of behaviour learning (vii) A movement model of behaviour (viii) Compendium of behavioural machine (ix) Motor learning and behaviour. It was observed that: (A) Sport was developed to foster national unity and promote peace. And its promotion was for detection of sports talents. (B) For creation of awareness in sports among citizens in the country regardless of age, class or position. (C) Create innate tendency to endure. (D) Combat the stressful and embarrassing situations.  It was however concluded that, the sport and  health policy essential for effective citizenship development,  the following  recommendations were  made: (1) Due to the fact that sports possess cognitive control, which is retention of conceptualized ideas, issues and knowledge and utility of these variables of human’s capabilities,it necessary to make life easy,through instillng  quality leadership directions, learning, planning and feedbacks.

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