FOUNDATION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
NATURE AND SCOPE OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION, EXERCISE SCIENCE AND
SPORTS
ARJAY R. BUHAIN
TEACHER III
BACOOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL- TABING DAGAT ANNEX
Nature of Physical Education, Exercise Science
and Sports
Goals for Physical Educators
Access to physical education and sport for all,
regardless of: age, gender, race, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, disability status, income,
educational level, geographic location and
ability.
Prevent disease and positively contribute to
health and well-being of all participants.
Expansion of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and
Sport
Moved from the
traditional school
setting to:
Community
Home
Worksite
Commercial & Medical
Settings
Corporations
Nature of Physical Education, Exercise
Science and Sports
Physical Education Exercise Science Sports
• develops students’ • is the study of the • is all forms of usually
competence and bodily movements that competitive physical
confidence to take part contribute to human activity which, through
in a range of physical fitness, holistic wellness casual or organized
activities that become a and longevity. participation, aim to
central part of their use, maintain or
lives, both in and out of improve physical ability
school. and skills
Scope of Physical Education, Exercise Science and
Sports
Physical Education Exercise Science Sports
• aims to provide children is the study of the body’s is the study of the relationship
and young people with responses to physical activity. between sports and society. It
learning experiences that These responses include changes examines how culture and values
in metabolism and in physiology influence sports, how sports
enable them to develop,
of different areas of the body like influences culture and values,
the knowledge, motivation
the heart, lungs, and muscles, and the relationship between
and competence to live a and structural changes in cells. sports and the media, politics,
physically active life, The word exercise comes from economics, religion, race, gender,
Physically, morally, the Latin exercitus, “to drive youth, etc. It also looks at the
intellectually and socially forth,” while physiology comes relationship between sports and
within an educational from the words physis (“nature”) social inequality.
and logia (“study”).
Words to ponder
From Jennifer Walton-Fisette and Deborah Wuest
Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and
Sport personalizes learning for every student, ensuring that they come to
your physical education class confident and prepared with strong coverage of
the foundations of motor behavior, biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport
and exercise psychology, the sociology of sport, and physical education
pedagogy.
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