EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA ESCOLAR: Alicerce para o desenvolvimento integral do estudante

This article is entitled Physical Education in Schools: The Foundation for the Student's Integral Development. This theme was chosen to promote encouragement, appreciation, and recognition of the discipline, which is unique and extremely necessary for human life, as well as for basic education. The objectives outlined in this work are centered on identifying possibilities and the relationship between the contents and their didactic-pedagogical skills, thus providing critical, reflective, and autonomous education as citizens, covering adolescents when they reach the end of high school. This work became possible through a bibliographic search exploring the content, secondary sources, and scientifically based data that prove the Cultural foundation of the Movement in schools, indicating that the incentive for motor, cognitive, and social development occurs as classes are planned and also directed according to the possibilities of the students and the environment in which they live, their culture, and history, where they will be provided with the opportunity to carry out activities of interaction, integration, and constant exchange of knowledge among them. This discipline is vast in knowledge and rich in general education.