Abstract:

Human beings need to act for different purposes in certain parts of their life and meet this need through daily work or planned-programmed activities. The individual's knowing why should participate in which activities and how to do these activities, the need for self-confidence to be able to act in situations with different difficulties and having the motivation to participate in these activities has revealed the concept of physical literacy. Physical literacy is the individual's having the necessary knowledge, motivation, physical competence and confidence to participate in different forms of movement and gaining the habit of participating in these activities for life. Physical literacy, by targeting cognitive and affective development as well as physical development, cares about individual differences and adopts that each individual is on their own physical literacy journey. The aim of the study is to contribute to the better understanding and dissemination of the concept of physical literacy in our country by giving detailed information about the definition, foundations and importance of the concept of physical literacy. The study is a traditional review, and it was searched with the keywords "Fiziksel Okuryazarlık", "Physical Literacy" from the studies conducted in Google Academic and Semantic Scholar databases between 2010-2021, and studies that did not meet the criteria were excluded and 53 studies were included in the study. In our study, information is given about the general structure of physical literacy, its characteristics in different age periods, the duties of parents, teachers and the environment in children's physical literacy adventures, the relationship between physical literacy and physical activity, the importance of physical literacy in the world and its relationship with physical education and sports lessons.

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