Week 2
Submission of Medical Clearance Form
Physical Education: It’s Value to the Development and Adjustment of Individual
Module 1
PHYSICAL EDUCATON: IT’S VALUE TO THE
DEVELOPMENT AND
ADJUSTMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
What is Physical Education?
Physical Education (PE)
interdisciplinary study of all areas of science
relating to the transmission of physical knowledge
and skills to an individual or a group, the
application of these skills, and their results.
Physical Education is an important
segment of general education which aims to
contribute to the total development of the learner
through participation in selected activities. It
provides opportunities to acquire lifelong skills that
are essential to his physical, mental, social, and
emotional development.
OBJECTIVES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The primary aims of physical education
vary historically, based on the needs of the time
and place. Often, many different types of physical
education occur simultaneously, some
intentionally and others not. Most modern schools
systems claim their intent is to equip students with
the knowledge, skills, capacities, and values along
with the enthusiasm to maintain a healthy lifestyle
into adulthood. Some schools also require
physical education as a way to promote weight
loss in students. Activities included in the program
is are designed to promote physical fitness, to
develop motor skills, to instill knowledge and
understanding of rules, concepts, and strategies,
and to teach students to work as part of a team, or
as individuals, in a wide variety of competitive
activities.
Physical Development
Through carefully selected physical
education activities, an individual who participates
actively will develop and maintain good health and
high level of physical fitness. The acquisition of
physical skills can motivate an individual to
participate further in physical activities: hence,
healthy growth and development of each learner
will be enhanced.
Social Development
 Participation in Physical Education dance instructions, as he discovers ways of
activities provides opportunities for the acquisition improving his movements in gymnastics and
and practice of desirable social traits necessary dance, and the ability to analyze and give
for adjustment to happy living and to the social life judgments.
in general. Some worthwhile traits are:
LEGAL BASIS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
 Friendliness
Article 1 of the International Charter of
 Cooperation
Physical Education and Sports, UNESCO, Paris,
 Respect for the rights of others
1978 and Recommendation 1, Interdisciplinary
 Good sportsmanship
Regional Meeting of Experts on Physical
 Good leadership and followership
Education, UNESCO, Brisbane Austria, 1982.
 Honesty in group competition
States that:
Emotional Development “The practice of Physical Education and
The informal nature of physical education Sports is a fundamental right for all..”
offers opportunities for the development of “And this right should not be treated as
expression and emotional traits needed for different in principle from the right to adequate
emotional mastery like: food, shelter, and medical care.”
Article XIV, section 19, 1986 Constitution
 Self confidence
of the Republic of the Philippines –
 Self control
“The State shall promote Physical
 Self reliance
Education and encourage sports programs,
 Courage
league competitions, and amateur sports including
 Determination
training for international competition to foster self-
 Personal discipline
discipline, teamwork, and excellence for the
Mental Development development of a healthy and alert citizenry.”
Through participation in Physical “All educational institutions shall
Education activities the individual develop his undertake regular sports activities throughout the
mental capacities as he learns the mechanical country and in cooperation with athletic club and
principles of underlying movement, as the learner other sectors.”
acquires knowledge and understanding of rules
and strategies of games and sports as well as
 BASIC PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN COLLEGE activity stimulates in some degree the four types
The services Physical Education refers to of development although different activities
the four subjects given to the freshmen and emphasize different amounts. Regular exercise
sophomores in the first four semesters of their and physical activity are extremely important and
college work as stipulated in the DECS Order No. beneficial for long-term health and well-being.
58, series of 1990.
Physical Education 1: Physical Fitness and Health Benefits of Exercise and Physical
Self-Testing Activities Activity
It covers the essentials of physical fitness
1. Reduce the risk of premature death
components and self-testing activities.
2. Reduce the risk of developing and/or from
Physical Education 2: Rhythmic Activities
heart disease
It is focused on the rhythm, fundamental
3. Reduce high blood pressure or the risk of
rhythmic activities, dance mixers, local and foreign
developing high blood pressure.
dances, as well as social dances.
4. Reduce high cholesterol or the risk of
Physical Education 3: Individual/Dual
developing high cholesterol.
Sports/Games
5. Reduce the risk of developing colon
It deals with the acquisition of skills on
cancer and breast cancer.
recreational activities such as bowling; table
6. Reduce the risk of developing diabetes.
tennis, badminton, track and field events, and to
7. Reduce or maintain body weight or body
foster love of country, “mga larong lahi” are,
fat.
likewise given.
8. Build and maintain healthy muscles,
Physical Education 4: Team Sports/Sports and
bones, and joints.
Aquatics
9. Reduce depression and anxiety.
It emphasize the acquisition of the
10. Improved psychological well-being.
fundamentals of common team sports such as
11. Enhance work, recreation, and sports
body
performance.

VALUES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

The value of physical education activities
are found in the resulting development and
adjustment of the individual. Engaging in any
THE FOUR TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT
1. ORGANIC
This is the development of power and
endurance of the heart, lungs, heat-
regulating mechanism, and digestive and
eliminating organs. These various organs
gain power and stamina from use.
2. NEUROMASCULAR
The development of skills
coordination required in the mastery of
life’s varied activities can be directly
attributed to physical education; also to
the development of strength in the
skeletal muscles used in
coordination.
3. INTERPRETIVE
This type of development strengthens
thinking, interpreting, and problem-
solving processes of the individual. It
starts with the explanatory play of infancy
and childhood and continues through all
physical education activities.
4. EMOTIONAL
The development and maturing of
impulses and emotions through activities
which give them expression under natural
controls such as officials, rules, traditions,
and the person’s desire to stay in the
game and play are inherent in team sports
where fear, anger, joy, and other powerful
emotions are experienced.
Here is a list of words with their origins and
meaning:
Apparatus – from the Latin word “apparare”, to
prepare; a device or, a group of devices used for
and a particular purpose
Anthropomorphic – from the Greek words
“anthropikos”, human being and “morphic”; having
a specified shape form
Calisthenics – from the Greek words “kalos”
such beautiful and “sthenos” for strength; excercises
without the use of any apparatus
Coordination – from the Latin word “ordinatus”, to
arrange; the harmonious functioning of muscles or
groups of muscles in the execution of movements.
Cardiovascular - from the Greek word “kardio”,
heart, and the Latin word “vasculum”, relating to or
involving the heart and the blood vessels
Exercise – from the Latin words “ex” and “arcere”,
to restain; bodily exertion for the sake of keeping
the organs and functions in a healthy state
Flexibility - from the word “flexus”; to bend
Gymnastics - from the Greek word “gumnos” or
sometimes “gymnos”, naked.
Gymnasium – from the Greek word “gumnasion”
or “gumnazein” meaning to exercise naked; a
place where Greek youth exercised.
Kinesiology – from the Greek words “kinesis”,
movement and –ology fro branch of learning.
Baron Nils Posse was the first to coin this word
in relation to his Swedish gymnastics
Pedagogue – from the Greek words “padio”, boy
and “agogos”, leader. It now means a school
teacher or an educator. It was literally a slave who
supervised children and took them to and from
school.
Pedagogy – from the Greek “see above”; the art
or profession of teaching.
Physical Education – from the Latin word
“physica”, physics and “education”; the training of
the bodily organs and powers with a view to the
promotion of health and vigor.
Physiology – from the Greek words “phusio”,
nature and –ology branch of learning; the branch
of the biological science dealing with the
processes and functions of an organism. In
Physical Education it is mainly Human Physiology
which applies to a study of the functions of the
organs and tissues in man.