POSITIVIST SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL TURN

Abstract

This text was produced for the Physical Education Methodologies course offered by the Institute of Biosciences at UNESP, Rio Claro Campus, Department of Pedagogy. Beginning with a broader view of science and philosophy in the field, this chapter seeks to compare the psychological theories—developmentalist-constructivist, psychogenetic, and behaviorist—that underpin the psychokinetic, psychomotor, and developmental approaches to Physical Education with the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, specifically in his work, "Phenomenology of Perception."

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/edimpacto2025.045-006