Physical education in the age of COVID-19: a narrative review of the literature

Physical education has been usually considered as a practical school subject, where close proximity and body contact represents the ‘‘norm’’. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed PE delivery and routines, modifying teaching contents and strategies, with online teaching that often replaced traditional face-to face modalities.Throughout school closures and social restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, PE teachers and students faced the enormous challenge to replace traditional in-presence teaching with online teaching, radically transforming discipline contents, methodologies, practices, and communication strategies. The implications of these changes could significantly contribute to redesign future PE. A list of references will be shared with conference attendants.