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Physical education (PE) is the interdisciplinary study of all areas of science relating to the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group, the application of these skills, and their results. Included, among other subjects, are aspects of anthropology, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and sociology. Some treatments of the discipline also include spirituality as an important aspect.
In most educational systems, physical education (also referred to as physical training, PT, or gym), is a course in the curriculum which utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains in a play, movement, or sport setting. The term physical education is frequently used to refer to such a class; however, this usage denotes rather that "they have participated in the subject area, not studied it."[1] In an academic context, the study of physical education is much more scientific than this common understanding of the term implies.[citation needed]
Many institutions are recognizing the limitations of the term "physical education," now opting to use more descriptive titles, for example, AAHPERD, the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, was, in 1903, known as simply the American Physical Education Association.[2] Many universities have done the same, renaming what were traditionally united as physical education programs to a wide variety of titles, some more specific, and some more general. Departmental examples include Sport, Health, and Physical Education,[3] Applied Life Sciences,[4] Applied Health Sciences,[4], and Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies.[5]
The primary aims of physical education vary historically, based on the needs of the time and place. Often, many different types of physical education occur simultaneously, some intentionally and others not. Often it is assumed a topic like physical education only concerns athletes and students, but many social roles are actually involved in the study; Kenyon's Model of Some Social Roles Associated with [...] Sport Involvement, further included spectators, indirect viewers, listeners, readers, instructors, coaches, management, team leadership, the sports governing body, rules committees, referees, other officials, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, promoters, wholesalers, and retailers awkward.[6] It should be noted that this solely refers to the complexity of levels of involvement in sport——physical education as a field covers much more.