Education of the living body

Physical education of the living body is a plea to restore meaning to PE. The author criticizes the school which reduces the child’s body to health or sport, forgetting that movement is its first language and its first freedom. Heir to military, medical and competitive logics, PE transforms the student into a statistic or a competitor, instead of cultivating the joy of action and self-confidence.Faced with this, the work recalls the richness of African traditions - dance, wrestling, games, rites - where the body is memory, social bond and school of life. Far from a logic of performance, these practices train man as a whole, in relationship with the community. The author calls for a profound reform: making PE a central educational discipline, rooted in culture and open to the universal, capable of forming free, united individuals aware of their humanity.