Znormalizowana dysfunkcjonalność: przedmiot wychowania fizycznego przeciwko współczesnym wyzwaniom cywilizacyjnym
Normalized dysfunctionality: the subject of physical education against modern civilization challenges

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the academic discourse regarding the problems of increasing overweight among young people, their low physical activity and their dismissal from P.E. lessons. It provides an alternative answer to the question of why these problems are not disappearing, but are in fact getting more severe. It is based on a review of academic literature, as well as on the author's own exploratory research. Within the prevailing discourse, physical education is attributed with an important role in combating many health challenges. According to the thesis of this article, the reality – as the data in the literature often already indicate – may be quite the opposite: physical education as a school subject at best has almost no positive impact, and at worst generates by itself the problems it is supposed to combat, as well as others. This dysfunctionality remains hidden because of the persistent and widespread dogmatism surrounding the subject.

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