Perspectivas y orientaciones para el deporte en la escuela

Abstract

All over the last decades, the concept of sport has unceasingly evolved, so that it is currently necessary to check out whether the traditional definitions of sport are still, since sport practice has diversified into many different branches. School sport must mainly have an educational goal, but it must matt in turn with the kind of sport taken up at school age, which ought to focus on two main aspects: 1.- personal development through educational, recreational and healthy dimensions; 2.- promotion and development of endurance in official competitions. Accordingly, the didactic performance must be governed by the following principles: the performance cannot press the participants; the practice must be ruled by healthy principles; and it is necessary to develop a suitable level of motor competence in order to enjoy oneself.