Physical Education · Class 11 Optional

Ch 1Changing Trends & Career in Physical Education — Class 11 Physical Education, concept-first.

Ask ten people what "Physical Education" means and you will get ten different answers - sports, coaching, health, yoga, keeping fit. Each is a piece of the picture, but none is the whole of it.

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Introduction

Ask ten people what "Physical Education" means and you will get ten different answers - sports, coaching, health, yoga, keeping fit. Each is a piece of the picture, but none is the whole of it.

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Meaning of Physical Education

If a survey asked people what they understood by the term Physical Education, most would answer that it is about sports activity, sports coaching, health education, yoga or individual fitness.

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Definition of Physical Education

Physical Education is far more than sports education. Over the years several eminent scholars have defined it, each highlighting a different aspect - experience, human performance, selected activity,…

1.1.3

Aim and Objectives of Physical Education

Physical Education is "education through movement." It aims to maximise our physical ability so that we become healthy, knowledgeable, skilful, creative, productive and influential in all walks of lif…

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Development of Physical Education in India - Post Independence

India progressed in every field after gaining independence in 1947, and Physical Education was no exception.

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Changing Trends in Sports - playing surface, wearable gears and sports equipment, technological advancements

Sport today looks very different from sport a few decades ago. The rules of most games are broadly the same, but almost everything around the game has been transformed by advances in materials, design…

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Playing surfaces

A wider variety of playing surfaces is used for physical activity, exercise and sport than ever before.

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Wearable Gears and Sports Equipment

With advances in technology and sports science, the equipment used in sport has changed in material, shape, size and weight, and a whole range of wearable gears and devices now touches almost every as…

1.3.3

Technology in sports

In modern life, technology is a great tool for making life easier, and its advances have greatly affected sports science. As the sports industry has grown, so has the demand for technological study.

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Various Academic Courses in Physical Education

Physical Education is a fast-growing discipline in India, and a wide range of academic courses is now offered by different educational institutions to prepare people for the field.

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Career Options in Physical Education

When a person graduates with a professional degree in Physical Education, the most obvious career is to work as a Physical Education Teacher (PET) in a school. But that is far from the only option.

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Khelo India

The Khelo India programme was introduced to revive the sports culture in India at the grassroots level - by building a strong framework for every sport played in the country and establishing India as…

1.5.1

Vision of Khelo India

The vision of the Government of India behind launching the Khelo India Programme is to further the sports culture in India, especially at the grassroots level, as well as to achieve sporting excellenc…

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Mission

The mission of the Khelo India Programme is "to encourage sports for all, thus allowing the population across gender and all age groups to harness the power of sports through its cross-cutting influen…

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Aim and Objectives of the Programme

The Khelo India Programme aims at developing a sporting culture in the country, identifying talent from the grassroots and grooming it for international success.

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Fit India Movement

The Fit India Movement was introduced on 29 August 2019 (National Sports Day, marking the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand) by the Prime Minister, with the objective of making fitn…

Summary

This unit introduced Physical Education as a broad, growing field and traced the changing trends and careers around it. The key ideas, in the textbook's order: