Vol. 24 No. 255 (2019)

The long road of school Physical Education
In the beginning was gymnastics, military and medical. The era of nations required young and strong citizens, for the army and/or for hard work. And the school had to prepare them from an early age and especially under criteria of control and discipline.
The failure of this project -racism and chauvinism produced millions of dead and mutilated products of the two world wars of the twentieth century- redirects teachers to new ideas that influenced teaching. The games and some sports occupied the space and time of the Physical Education classes in the last decades of the last century.
The new scenarios of the current time support other conquests: the full inclusion of any person beyond their physical possibilities, the generic integration, the selection of local games and sports (not only those of Anglo-Saxon origin or of the European continent) and other own bodily practices of the popular sectors. And in a framework of solidarity, coexistence and nonviolence, in favor of improving the school and social climate.
Tulio Guterman, Director - August 2019