Grzegorz Kozdraś
Labor et Educatio, 7 (2019), 2019, pp. 245 - 258
https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561LE.19.015.11532The article describes the possibilities offered by organising humanist-oriented physical education classes at the first stage of education. As part of physical education, which includes the process of physical upbringing and physical training, a teacher has the opportunity to influence pupils not only in terms of their physical fitness and health prevention, but also in terms of socially desirable values. In the research part of the paper, an assessment of the state of humanisation of physical education in early school education was undertaken, adopting the pupils' behaviour as a subject of research, which was in turn an indicator of the manifestation of values resulting from the assumptions of the concept of agonistic education. Adopting the quantitative research strategy, the paper presents the results of diagnostic studies during which the observation method was used in the categorised observation technique to solve the main problem. The obtained research results show a low level of humanisation in physical education at the first stage of education; they also provide rationale for expressing the thesis regarding the legitimacy of organising physical education classes in accordance with the assumptions of humanisation, i.e. combining physical education and physical training in early school education.