physical education

Sport

2022

We explain what physical education is, its history and what this discipline is for. In addition, its importance and difference with the sport.

Physical education contributes to the care and health of the human body.

What is physical education?

When we talk about physical education, we mean a discipline pedagogical that encompasses the human body from various physical perspectives, aspiring to a comprehensive education regarding the human body that contributes to the care and Health, but also to sports training and against sedentary life.

Just as in the various educational bodies the individual is mentally and socially trained, they are taught trades, techniques, knowledgealso physical education aspires to educate you in the use of your own body, be it recreational and athletic, or simply Health and survival, strengthening bones and musculature in crucial stages of the human development.

The current trend in physical education is towards the exploitation of the adaptability and versatility of the body, teaching young people to deal physically with different situations or requirements, and thus increasing their bodily capacities.

This, in addition, complemented with an emotional training towards healthy competitiveness, to him team work and companionship, towards the appreciation of difference and respect for human rights, all of which is just as important.

It is common in physical education subjects the practice of sports, athletic and rhythmic exercises, exercise circuits, as well as the approach to group dynamics and cooperative activities.

History of physical education

The Humans practiced physical education in Ancient Ages, forming an important part of his conception of the culture and coming to conceive great competitions such as the marathons of Ancient Greece, or the Roman fight.

In those days, the meaning of this was to form citizens ready for the war if necessary, often trying to combine it with philosophical instruction that would achieve a combination of wise man and of action.

Modern physical education was born as such at the beginning of the 19th century, in the academies of Switzerland and Germany, with various sports, largely inherited from the physical disciplines that the old aristocracy, usually linked to the military trades, practiced all their lives, like fencing and horse riding.

To this were added more popular sports disciplines, and then speed sports, which often combined the body with mechanical tools, such as the bicycle. But it would not be until the twentieth century that the first institutions teacher training in physical education.

What is physical education for?

Physical education serves to combat sedentary life.

Physical education are similar to those of the education: the formation of the integral individual, who is capable of managing their talents and capacities both physical, social and mental. In the particular case of physical education, the focus is on training and maintaining their physical and bodily health, although not exclusively.

This also means training in sports, which can serve as a basis for the discovery of innate sports talents, or as a complement and combat against sedentary life: it is known that physical inactivity is the cause of weaknesses and metabolic diseases both in youth like adulthood.

Importance of physical education

Body education is not simply for sporting or recreational purposes, nor is it exclusive to athletic types or women. personalities competitive. Physical exercise is known to have played a vital role in the mental, social and physical balance of many literary individuals, scientists, or even thinkers.

In this way, physical education is the educational basis for the individual in relation to his own body: he is taught to carry out various efforts in a healthy way, to exercise it, to know its limitations and to put it, if it were the case, at service of a common physical project, such as a team sport.

Differences between physical education and sport

Through sports the muscles and the notion of team are exercised.

Sport is intrinsic to physical education, just as much as calculus is to physical education classes. physical, chemistry Y math. Through sport, the muscles and the notion of a team are exercised, negative emotions and other benefits that accompany its merely recreational aspect are channeled. Physical education, on the other hand, is an educational and pedagogical discipline, which is not exclusive to athletes or athletes, as has been described so far.

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