THE LEGAL BASIS OF

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL CHARTER
OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AND SPORTS
UNESCO, PARIS
ARTICLE 1

“The practice of Physical

education and Sports is
fundamental right for all”
 This right should not be treated as
different in principle from the right
to adequate food, shelter, and
medical care
 ARTICLE XIV, SECTION 19, 1987
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF
THE PHILIPPINES
 THE STATE SHALL PROMOTE PHYSCIAL
EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGE SPORTS
PROGRAMS, LEAGUE COMPETITIONS, AND
AMATEUR SPORTS INCLUDING TRAINIING
FOR INTERNATIOAL COMPETITION, TO
FOSTER SELF- DISCIPLINE , TEAM WORK ,
AND EXCELENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT FOR
A HEALTHY AND ALERT CITEZENRY
ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SHALL
UNDERTAKE REGULAR SPORTS
ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY AND IN COOPERATION WITH
CLUB AND OTHER SECTORS
Integral part of the educational systemwhich is
designed to promote the optimum dev’t of an
individual in terms of his physical, emotional,
mental and social well being through total
body movement in the performance of
properly selected physical activities
 A course taken in lower, middle high school,
and college that utilizes learning in the
cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains
in a play or movement exploration setting.
 Interdisciplinary study of all areas of science
relating to transmission of physical knowledge
and skills to an individual or a group, the
application of these skills, and their results.
 R.A 5708

“ THE SCHOOL’S
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AND SPORTS
DEVELOPMENT ACT OF
1969”
 An act Providing the promotion and
financing of an integrated P.E and
sports development program for the
schools in the Philippines
 PIONEERS OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION

1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. Johann Friedrich Simon
3. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First person to promote

education for the masses
Johann Friedrich Simon
Johann Friedrich Simon

• First PE teacher
• He believed that PE should be taught
along with reading and writing
Johann Christoph Friedrich
Guts-Muths
 Johann Christoph Friedrich
Guts-Muths

• Developed series of gymnastic

apparatuses
• He believed that PE develop important
social skills