In most educational systems, physical education class, also called physical training (PT) or gym, though each with a very different connotation, is a course in the curriculum which utilizes learning in the
cognitive,
affective and psychomotor domains your name in a play or movement exploration setting. The term physical education is most commonly used in this way; however, this denotes rather that "they have participated in the subject area, not studied it."
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