The physical education identity crisis and educational practice

The aim of this paper is to critically analyze the applicability of the identity crisis diagnosis of physical education to the educational practice related to this discipline. For this, the curricular design of physical education for the primary level of the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, is taken as a case, the theoretical frameworks operating in it are identified and it is evaluated if such document manifests the aforementioned crisis. The treatment reveals various difficulties in trying to apply such a diagnosis to this particular case.