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The initial training of physical education teachers—In search of the lost meaning of professionalism

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This article re-examines the initial training of physical education teachers with the purpose of pinning down its professional significance. The author maintains that we have lost, in part, its meaning, and, in an attempt to recover it, offers two initial strategies: to revisit two basic concepts—education in general and physical education in particular—and to reformulate four key questions: Question 1. What being a physically educated person means… Professionals are urged to establish the objectives of physical education based on the deficiencies, necessities and interests of the children and young people, which are rooted in the nature of the developed societies in which they live (e.g. the contextualisation of knowledge, emotional development, the learning of values necessary for a pacific coexistence, the promotion of active lifestyles, information about a balanced diet and the disorders that arise out of this, education for a sustainable consumerism, etc.). This information will be provided via an in...