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AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Physical education is an integral part of general education which promotes growth and development. It promotes the efficient functioning of the body. Physical Education develops a student’s ability and confidence to take part in physical activities.


According to the National plan of physical education and recreation," The aim of physical education must be to make every child physically mentally and emotionally fit and also to develops personal and social qualities as will help him to live happily with others and build him as a good citizen."


The main aim of physical education 
Overall development of personality of an individual 

Objectives

  1.  Development of Organic Fitness: This objective is to develop a good physique through the efficiency of organic systems like Respiratory, Circulatory, Digestive, Muscular and Neuro-muscular improves. Physical fitness includes strength speed flexibility agility and endurance.
  2. Development of Neuro-Muscular Coordination: Brain and body are two things but they are interdependent, the development of neuro-muscular skills develops the ability of various activities like jumping, running, throwing, etc. and it develops smooth functioning of the body. It develops control and balance of the body.
  3. Social Development: Through participation in various physical activities many qualities like confidence, obedience, temperament, sincerity, sacrifices, sportsmanship, and self-control, etc. This development promotes sociability & forms a healthy society.
  4. Emotional Development: Physical education makes a person emotionally like through the participation in physical activities and learns about emotional behavior & he/she knows how to react in different kinds of situation.
  5. Psychological development: this development is related to positive thoughts ideas behavior attitude and response. this objective improves the psychological balance of an individual. the positive thought and ideas guide the individual towards progress and hence a  person a good citizen.

Bloom and Krathwohl and associates had summarized the objective under three interdependent domains to effectively communicate the nature and scope of the objectives

The Cognitive 
The Affective
The Psychomotor




COGNITIVE DOMAIN 

Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation

AFFECTIVE DOMAIN 

Interests Appreciations Attitude Values 

PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN

Manipulation of motor skill 


The cognitive domain involves those objectives that deal with the development of intellectual abilities and skills. These have to do with the mental abilities of the brain. The cognitive domain addresses the development of content knowledge and intellectual skills.


The affective domain focuses on students’ feelings, attitudes, and values about movement. The function of the affective domain in the instructional situation pertains to emotions, the passions, the dispositions, the moral and the aesthetic sensibilities, the capacity for feeling, concern, attachment or detachment, sympathy, empathy, and appreciation.


The psychomotor domain refers to the physical aspects of learning. It addresses motion, reflexes, and how muscles are engaged during physical activity. Psychomotor objectives are those specific to discreet physical functions, reflex actions, and interpretive movements



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