Physical Education · Ch 1 — Changing Trends & Career in Physical Education
Definition of Physical Education
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, or big-muscle movement.
How scholars have defined Physical Education
- Delbert Oberteuffer - "Physical Education is the sum of those experiences which come to the individual through movement."
- Charles A. Bucher - "Physical Education is an integral part of the total educational process. It is a field of endeavour that has as its aim the improvement of human performance through the medium of physical activities that have been selected with a view to realizing this outcome."
- Jesse Feiring Williams - "Physical Education is the sum of man's physical activities selected as to kind, and conducted as to outcomes."
- Jay B. Nash - "Physical Education is that phase of the whole field of education that deals with the big muscle activities and their related responses."
Read together, these definitions make one point clear: Physical Education is a process of education that aims at the holistic development of the individual by using physical activity or body movement.
Drawn by us to help you understand the concept clearly, and verified to make sure it's accurate. For exams, practice from your textbook's own diagram.
A left-to-right flowchart of the idea of Physical Education. It begins with 'Physical Education', which works through 'Education', using the human body as a means, and leads to the making of a complete individual - one who is physically fit, mentally alert, emotionally balanced, morally true, socially well-adjusted and spiritually uplifted. The diagram sums up how …
A working definition
Putting the scholars' views into a single statement:
Physical Education is a teaching-learning process in which physical activities are used as the medium of instruction, and those activities are designed in such a way as to improve physical fitness, motor skills, knowledge, sportsmanship, emotional stability and healthy behaviour. …