Structure and the social function of sports activity and the process of appropriation of culture: contributions to the teaching Activity in school physical education

Abstract

This text examines the structure and the social function of sports activity and the process of appropriation of culture, with the purpose of indicating contributions to teaching activity in school physical education. At the same time as it explicitly explains the "positive" and "negative" side of the contradiction about sports activity in capitalist society, it advances in the analysis with the thesis that in the activity of sports the concept, subjective image of reality objectified historically, in the corporality of the individuals, human cultural richness that needs to be appropriated and objectified by the individuals in the school. It concludes by highlighting the need to appropriate actions/operations accumulated in the classical contents of physical education - the objective meanings of game, struggle, dance, gymnastics, etc. - by means of the realization of the voluntary movement, in certain conditions, whose general and broadest motive is the historical-social development of human corporality, and the purpose is the self-mastery of corporeality, when the sense of action is realized; condition for physical education to contribute to raising students' theoretical-conceptual capacity in school education.