Physical Education as "Means without Ends:" Towards a New Concept of Physical Education

Autor/in	Vlieghe, Joris
Titel	Physical Education as "Means without Ends:" Towards a New Concept of Physical Education
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (2013) 9, S.934-948 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2013.785351
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Human Body; Physical Fitness; Intellectual Disciplines; Exercise; Physical Activities; Educational Attitudes; Movement Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Menschlicher Körper; Leistungsfähigkeit; Geisteswissenschaften; Übung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bewegungsbildung
Abstract	This article is concerned with the educational value of raising the human body at school. Drawing inspiration from the work of Giorgio Agamben, I develop a new perspective that explores the possibility of taking the concept of physical education in a literal sense. This is to say that the specific educational content of physical education (in contradistinction to organized sporting life outside school) resides in its concentration on the physical "as such". This is not an obvious path to explore, because defenders of physical education as a rule have to compete against the (dualist) prejudice that this discipline is merely an instrument to train the body or to keep it fit, and that it therefore should not be considered as a serious endeavour. Therefore, more often than not, apologists try to justify the relevance of physical education on the very ground that it is a practice that is concerned with something "beyond" the merely physical that is at stake in movement activity. I argue, however, that this line of thought excludes the possibility of conceiving an alternative approach that relates the concentration on "entirely physical" activities (as opposed to "merely physical" activities) to an experience of potentiality. I develop this idea on the basis of an analysis of repetitive, rhythmical and collective body-exercise (e.g. running in a group or basic calisthenics). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10