Physical education is essential for developing students' physical, intellectual, and moral abilities. It lays the foundation for lifelong healthy and active living by enhancing health, well-being, and developing skills to prevent future health problems. The basic aim of physical education is to set aside a portion of the school day for large muscle activities that increase movement skills, fitness, and cognitive and affective development. It focuses on developing fundamental movement skills, specialized movement skills, physical fitness components, and perceptual-motor skills through physical activity.

1. By Dr. Ajith Gopi

2. Every human being has a fundamental right of access to physical education and
sport, which are essential for the full development of his personality. The freedom to
develop physical, intellectual and moral powers through physical education and
sport must be guaranteed both within the educational system and in other aspects of
social life.”
(The UNESCO Charter of Physical Education and Sport (1978)
“Physical education programs lay the foundation for lifelong active living, enhance
health and well-being, and help to prevent and/or reduce future health problems.”
The Declaration of Berlin 2013, UNESCO’s World Conference of Ministers for
Sport

3. ▪ Physical education is a school curricular subject that supports the development
of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for participating in active,
healthy living.
▪ Physical education is an educational process of learning to develop specific
knowledge, skills, and understanding to promote physical competence.

4. ▪ The basic aim of physical education is to set aside daily a portion of the school day
devoted to large-muscle activities that increase movement skills, enhance
physical fitness, and positively influence the cognitive and affective
development of children.

5. Fundamental movement skills Specialized movement skills

7. ▪ Perceptual-motor coordination is the
process of receiving, interpreting,
and using information from all of the
body’s senses.
▪ Body Awareness
▪ Spatial Awareness
▪ Directional Awareness
Body Awareness
Sparial
Awareness
Directional
Awareness
PERCEPTUAL MOVEMENT
SKILL

8. Health Related Physical Fitness
components
Skill Related Physical Fitness
components

11. ▪ To Develop Fundamental movement skills (it must be refined prior to the introduction of specialized movement skills).
▪ To Develop Specialized movement skills (SMS taught in physical education classes can relate to the skills needed for
the major sports which are popular in the country.)
▪ To Develop HRPF (Health-related Physical fitness components of muscular strength, muscular endurance,
cardiovascular endurance, joint flexibility, and body composition are critical for achieving the health objectives of
physical education).
▪ To Develop SRPF (Skill-related Physical fitness components include balance, coordination, agility, speed of movement,
and power).
▪ To Develop Perceptual-motor components (Perceptual-motor components that are part of physical education include
body awareness,space awareness,directional awareness,synchrony,rhythm, and sequence.)
▪ To enhance the Affective growth (Affective growth can be enhanced by a physical education program that is designed
to increase the ability of children to act, interact, and react effectively with others as well as themselves).
▪ Children’s self-concept includes their feelings of belonging, perceived competence, worthiness, acceptance of self,
uniqueness, and virtue.
▪ In a physical education, recreation, or sport setting, positive socialization involves learning cooperative behavior, fair
play, and being a good sport. Teamwork, honesty, loyalty, and self-control can be achieved in a good program that
involves physical activity

12. ▪ Physical literacy is the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge
and understanding to value and take responsibility for engaging in physical
activities for life.

13. ▪ Physical education (PE) develops the physically literate individual through deliberate
practice of well-designed learning tasks that allow for skill acquisition in an
instructional climate focused on mastery.
▪ During physical education class, students practice the knowledge and skills they have
learned through physical activity (PA), which is defined as any bodily movement that
results in energy expenditure.

15. ▪ Physical Literacy in Physical Education/ SHAPE America
▪ Physical Education (pgpedia.com)
▪ https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2928