The school practice of physical education: the motor capacity out of the historical-cultural psychology

Abstract

The history of Physical Education seems to have a multiplicity of paths and conceptions, epistemologically dividing the area into critical or traditionalist conceptions. In this article, Motor Capacity is proposed as the object of study of Physical Education, assigning the area, as a specific function, to foster this potential in human development. It is understood that human motor development is an alternative in school practice and aims to overcome the pedagogical approach without splitting body and mind, questioning the fragmentation of the estranged social being in the present time. Thus, we sought to propose a guiding concept different from contemporary ones for Physical Education. In the grounds of the proposal, the Historical-Cultural Theory was used, articulating Lukascia's philosophical categories and Marxian philosophical assumptions, viewing the totality, the social reality or the practice in which Physical Education operates.