Modern K–12 Physical Education Incorporates Critical-Thinking Skills. Though it may be difficult for students from different backgrounds to develop social skills (Standard 3) in a PE classroom, teachers and students have the chance to read indications from peers and other students.

Self-concept has long been recognized as a foundational construct in the social sciences, playing a critical role in fostering psychological well-being and adaptive behaviors across domains, including education, mental and physical health, and sport and exercise (Craven and Marsh 2008; Fox and Corbin 1989; Garn et al. 2020; Harter 2012; Sonstroem 1978).

Physical education is an important course to cultivate students’ good physical quality and sports skills. It is a necessary way to improve students’ physical literacy and an important link to promote the overall development of students’ comprehensive quality. ... Li W, 2021, New Thinking on Physical Education in Primary and Secondary ...

Introduction. Physical education (PE) is essential for promoting healthy, physically active lifestyles for children and young people of school age (Messing et al., Citation 2019; Palmer & Behrens, Citation 2017; van Sluijs et al., Citation 2007).As PE teachers may play a key role in encouraging pupils to adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles, effective and targeted health-related ...

Taking the empirical basis of this process as an indication of the specificity of physical education—and his pedagogical practice as a teacher-researcher of physical education in basic education –, Sanches Neto systematized a curricular proposal based on the complexity, convergence and integration of four entangled dynamics: culture ...