Unit 1.

Approach to Physical
Outline Education.
1.1. INTRODUCTION.
• MODULE I. PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
1.2. THE CONCEPT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
• UNIT 1. APPROACH TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

• UNIT 2. THE CURRICULUM IN PE. 1.3. UPDATE OF THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION IDEA.

• UNIT 3. THE MOTOR SKILLS, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE 1.4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF CURRENT PHYSICAL
COMMITMENT IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
EDUCATION.
• UNIT 4. INTRADISCIPLINARITY. INTERDISCIPLINARITY,
GLOBALITY AND TRANSVERSALITY IN P.E. 1.5. THE GENERATION OF ATTITUDES FROM
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

1.1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction

• PE in schools contributes to the overall education

of young people by helping them to learn how to
lead full and valuable lives by engaging in
purposeful physical activities such as sport, dance,
or adventure.

• These activities can lead to an improvement in the

quality of people’s lives.
(Almond, 2012)
 1.2. The significance of
Physical Education

• The significance of PE relates directly to its goals.

• Health related goals

• Learning sports, dance outdoors activities, and

physically active play

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

1.2. The significance of 1.2. The significance of

Physical Education Physical Education
• Physical activity is related to: • Sports, dance, outdoor activities, children’s games,
and recreational sports are undeniably significan
• health benefits such as lower risk of some
cultural activities.
cancers, prevention of weight gain, reduce
depression… • PE is the only subject area in school devoted to
teaching children the skills they need for
• academic achievement, including better grades
meaningful participation.
and improved classroom behavior

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017) (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

 1.3. Update of the Physical 1.3. Update of the Physical
Education Idea Education Idea

• Greek and Roman were the first to develop these

• Until the 1900s, many physical educators were
gymnastic programs, which still influence our field
physicians, and all physical education was call
today.
gymnastic.
• For example, today we continue to promote the
• The aim of this field was to improve health and
ancient Greek and Roman ideal of “Mens sana en
correct physical ailments.
corpore sano” (a strong mind in a healthy body).

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017) (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

1.3. Update of the Physical 1.3. Update of the Physical

Education Idea Education Idea
• The modern era of PE began in Germany in the late • The second major influence on the modern era of
1770s. PE was the Swedish system of gymnastics.
• Gymnastics was seen primarily as a means of • The Swedish system emphasized exercises and
developing fitness, using for example rope jumping and
body positions performed in highly precise ways,
lifting weights.
much like many aerobic and fitness classes today.

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017) (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

 1.3. Update of the Physical 1.4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF
Education Idea CURRENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
• The need to live and know your body and to learn to
take care of it

• Currently, the intentional scope of Physical Education is:

• In the XX century, educators began to promote a
second set of subject matter goals for PE—namely • the formation of hygienic habits and active life,
that students learn games, sports, dance, and
recreational activities. • the acquisition of adequate personal training that,
once the school period is over, the student is in a
position to responsibly assume their own physical
maintenance and obtain a good level of quality of life.

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

1.4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF 1.4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF

CURRENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION. CURRENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
• Physical Education is interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary: • Physical Education as a support for
• The interdisciplinary nature of Physical Education is determined and shaped by contemporary progressive education
the variety of sciences on which it is based (history, pedagogy, philosophy,
linguistics, psychology, biology, biomechanics, anatomy, physiology, statistics,
etc.). • From a historical perspective, Rousseau is
• The intradisciplinarity of Physical Education is defined by the different established as one of the pillars of modern
curricular subjects and disciplines it contains: educational theories, since it is the first to propose
• motor skills: perceptual, basic, generic, specific –sports–, the education of the body as the essence of
integral education, cultivation of liberties, genesis
• games,
of self-discipline and personal self-esteem and as
• body expression and source of the relationship with nature as an
• physical conditioning. essential educational approach.
 1.4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF 1.5. THE GENERATION OF ATTITUDES
CURRENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION. FROM PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

• Physical Education is a powerful means of

• Historically, many of leaders on the field of PE have
integration and human relationship
argued that the two primary goals are:
• The development of physical-sports activities
• Education of the physical (i.e. teaching physical
typical of Physical Education establishes a world of
activities)
interpersonal relationships: of mutual support,
interdependencies, shared responsibilities, etc., • Education through the physical (i.e. promoting
that allow to value, help and understand other
character development)
people in a better way.

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

1.5. THE GENERATION OF ATTITUDES 1.5. THE GENERATION OF ATTITUDES

FROM PHYSICAL EDUCATION. FROM PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

• Teachers recognize the importance of social and • A goal of many physical education teachers is to
emotional goals in their classrooms.
make a difference in the lives of their students.
• Research shows that teachers can help children • It is not simply that we want to share the joys and
develop socially and emotionally.
benefits we experienced in sports, fitness,
gymnastics, and dace setting; we also want to help
• School-based programs designed to achieve this
students grow socially and emotionally so they can
aim have proved successful in reducing antisocial,
lead happy productive lives.
disruptive, and aggressive behaviors.

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017) (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)