Human Rights and Physical Education: A Preliminary Introduction to Their Relationships and Implications

Abstract

This paper offers a preliminary investigation into some of the relationships and implications of education, the body, physical education, and the pending pedagogical challenge with human rights and their conceptual framework. It explores and presents different perspectives and analytic approaches, conceptual

definitions, and questions and interpellations between and about them. It also addresses various developments related to naturalization, culture, gender, identity, and race, and their problematizations. In pursuit of this task, it proposes exploring probable links with established hegemonic power, established patriarchal hierarchical norms, and the predominance of operations that may imply some form of dehumanization, such as the denial of rights, the suppression of guarantees, and the obstruction of the process of gender choice and identity construction. It also proposes to critique essentialist and naturalist ideas regarding these central concepts, establishing the dimension of cultural construction as the axis of their construction of meaning, as well as the condition of struggle and livable life as categories of analysis. A strand of debate on intersectionality is identified as a means of analyzing it, and finally, the power and pedagogical commitment of physical education are questioned, as well as the necessity and urgency of implementing it.