The Road to Physical Literacy

This book seeks to contribute to a pedagogical reflection on one of the possible paths to the development and achievement of physical literacy, known as the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge needed to maintain an adequate level of physical activity throughout life. Using a broad and multidisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers a portrait of a pedagogical approach to the development of physical education in Portugal, illustrating its conception based on the eclectic and multilateral formation of students. This ideology aims to form a motor repertoire and the appropriation of a motor culture that allows young people to develop a taste for regular physical activity and the acquisition of skills, attitudes, values and knowledge that facilitate the promotion of their autonomy to be active throughout their lives. Curriculum development and assessment processes are framed in the light of this major goal, underlining the importance of learning a fundamental motor vocabulary and developing motor competence as the basis of physical literacy.

Autorentext

Ana Quitério graduated from the Faculty of Human Motricity (Technical University of Lisbon) in Sports Sciences. She obtained her PhD from the same institution in the field of "Health and Physical Condition". She is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Motricity (University of Lisbon) and vice-president of the Portuguese Society of Physical Education.