Initial Notes for a Physical Education of the Future: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

Abstract

Since the 1960s, there has been a discussion in the Physical Education (P.E) academic field, concerning its epistemological basis, initially in the United States. In Brazil, critical thinking towards P.E. has as its main argument that it is reductionistic since the object of study is the physical body and practices, disregarding a humanistic holistic approach. A shift began due to the proposal of a Portuguese philosopher, Manuel Sergio, in the 80s entitled Human Motricity Science. This article aims to gather information about the epistemological changes that PE has gone through, subsidizing the field with a new perspective, based on complexity and transdisciplinary thinking in which the conception of human corporeality/subjectivity being a milestone of Physical Education in the future.