Formación de profesores de Educación Física en Chile: una mirada histórica (Physical Education teacher training in Chile: a historical view)

TLDR: In this article, a qualitative descriptive based on documentary and bibliographic research is presented, showing that physical education has been present from the beginning of teachers' training in Chile, moving from a technical rationality to models based on pedagogy.

Abstract: El articulo tiene como proposito profundizar en la formacion de profesores de Educacion Fisica en Chile, desde una vision historica, relevando las actuales politicas publicas que refieren a los procesos de Formacion Inicial Docente.  Desde el punto de vista metodologico es un trabajo de orden cualitativo descriptivo, que tiene como procedimiento la investigacion documental y bibliografica. Los resultados indican que la disciplina ha estado presente desde el inicio de la formacion de profesores en Chile, transitando desde una racionalidad tecnica a modelos de caracter mas bien pedagogicos. Se concluye que la Educacion Fisica actual en Chile se debe orientar al desarrollo humano, integrando adecuadamente los componentes de actividad fisica, deporte y salud, bajo estandares pedagogicos y disciplinares. Al mismo tiempo, se observa que aun existen aspectos que se deben revisar y estudiar a objeto de perfeccionar los procesos de formacion inicial de profesores, en el marco de la apuesta de desarrollo que ha hecho el Estado para la presente decada. Summary. The aim of this article is to delve into physical education teacher’s training in Chile, from a historical perspective, highlighting current public policies in the processes of Pre-service Teachers Training. From this methodological point of view, this work is qualitative descriptive based on documentary and bibliographic research. Results show that physical education has been present from the begining of teachers’ training in Chile, moving from a technical rationality to models based on pedagogy. As a conclusion, current Physical Education should be oriented towards human development, integrating components from physical activity, sport and health, under the pedagogical and disciplinary standards. At the same time, there are still aspects that must be revised and studied in order to improve teachers’ pre-service processes, within the framework of development proposed by the State for the present decade.