The meaning of sport and movement for the life of human beings and the essence of physical education

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We as living human beings meet with sport and movement in physical education classes that use them as teaching materials. It is necessary, therefore, to clarify the universal meaning of sport and movement for the life of human beings in order to keep the peculiarity of physical education as a subject in school education.We discussed this meaning from the viewpoint of philosophical anthropology by Hans Lenk, in the fiscal year of 1999-2000. It was cleared that the learning of sport and movement in physical education classes must center on the fact that we live as human beings, since they are used as teaching materials in physical education. It was also cleared that the essence of physical education exists in the education of human beings through sport and movement. We discussed about the self-other problems in sport and movement in the fiscal year of 2000-2001. It was definitely showed that the self-performance in sport and movement can develop the solidarity with others and that the communication in sport and movement can be attained by the solidarity between oneself and others as well as by the physical act toward the achievement. It is important in physical education that there exists the common meaning, which should be embodied by the group of students in physical education classes. To exist a physical act in order to embody this meaning is also significant. The teaching materials with the aim of learning the meaning of victory or defeat as well as the achievement by group may be interpreted as to provide a communication to understand others. This result suggests the possibility of a new theory of physical education that exceeds extant theories consisting mainly in the acquisition of movement skills and the inculcation of ethical norms through sport and movement.