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## PATHFIT01 HANDOUTS ### PRELIM ## Module 1: Introduction to Physical Education and Physical Fitness ### Topic 1: Legal Bases, Functions and Objectives of Physical Education **Definition of Physical Education** Physical education has undergone many vicissitudes and numerous changes of path in the...

## PATHFIT01 HANDOUTS ### PRELIM ## Module 1: Introduction to Physical Education and Physical Fitness ### Topic 1: Legal Bases, Functions and Objectives of Physical Education **Definition of Physical Education** Physical education has undergone many vicissitudes and numerous changes of path in the Philippine schools. There was a time when physical education was considered as education of the physical, hence, a muscular physique was considered a physical educated body. The activities then were termed as "drill", "physical training" and "calisthenics". This old concept of physical education would, in all respect, mean today as strengthening the muscles. The newer and modern perception of physical education is that it is _education through_ physical activities. In modern physical education idiom, it is education through "movement" (Wunderlich, 1967). **Wunderlich describes movement as follows:** - It provides sensory data. - It broadens the perspective horizon. - It stimulates function and structure of all bodily organs. - It is the means by which an individual learns about himself in relation to his ambient environment. What "education through movement" more particularly entails are the taking of that culture-based family of activities and processes-games, _dance_, gymnastics, athletic sports, and outdoor pursuits-as a means "through" which the teacher can help effect enviable outcomes, despite the consequences of whether those activities have essential worth of their own. Moreover, physical education focuses on the concept of "learn to move, move to learn." An individual must know how to move in order to learn on how to move in order to acquire and learn the needed knowledge in a certain activity. **What is physical education?** Physical education is an integral part of the education program _purposely to promote_ the optimum development of the individual _physically_, _socially_, _emotionally_, and mentally through total movement in the performance of properly selected physical activities (Andin, 2002). Phase of education concerned with the teaching and learning of skills and attitudes in play activities.