Learning basketball through contemporary art

The discourses that justify the game in the physical education curriculum attend to its socializing, functional, experiential and vitalist task (Garcia & Chiva, 2018). However, according to Biesta's (2010) theory of education, these discourses that have dominated the curricular justification of PE would forget one of the fundamental uses of education: subjectivation. This paper explains a didactic basketball unit where contemporary art and TGfU are used as catalysts for subjectivation processes. It is concluded how the students positively value the autonomy and freedom they had during the sessions, the originality and the motivation that the use of unconventional materials caused them and the incorporation of contemporary artists for the reinvention of games.