Physical Education history

Beatriz4

· 04 Aug 2022

Physical Education history

#history Physical education goes back to the origins of man. It initially responds to survival needs, in terms of obtaining food (chasing, climbing, traction, etc.), housing and clothing are a construction based on physical effort.[3]

By the end of the century, physical education teacher training schools and institutes reached a university level. It is considered that the creator of this educational branch as it is known today was Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. During the 19th century, Jahn established Germany's first gymnastics school. Physical education applied systematically and with objectives has its origins in ancient civilizations, India and China, where the practice was similar to our gymnastics, receiving the name of Kung-Fu, created around 270 BC. C., for a religious purpose, to cure the body of diseases and weaknesses that would prevent it from being a servant of the soul.[4] In Sparta, the combination of a man of action and a wise man was sought, an educational program that was later called Palestra.

As for Rome, physical education was very similar to Spartan, since the protagonist was the athlete. Galen was the first person to propose specific exercises for each part of the body and to use the pulse as a means to detect the effects of physical exercise. During the Visigoth era, sports such as wrestling, jumping, javelin throwing and fencing were already practiced.

Modern physical education was born at the beginning of the 19th century in Switzerland and Germany with sports such as: jumping, running and fighting in the open air, swimming, balancing, dancing, fencing, climbing, horse riding and running. Football, rugby, cricket and equestrian sports were born in England. At the end of the 19th century, speed sports, such as cycling and motorsport, were born, which combine physical ability with mechanical efficiency. Physical education originates through physical activities that humans tried to systematize in Antiquity to improve their physical condition for war.

At different times and places, the conception of physical education has not always been the same. Taken as a scientific-pedagogical discipline, its approach varies according to the various dominant paradigms in the social field and, naturally, in the pedagogical field. This has been so fluctuating that, in many cases, it was placed varying within the biological sciences and in others in the social sciences