Proposal to the table tennis teaching in primary and secondary school

The table tennis is a sport which is practised increasingly in the world, so much in the federative and competitive fields as educative and recreative ones. The frequent use of the table tennis as content in the physical education lessons makes that its suitable teaching receives special importance, because with its practice we can educate people in different fields: motor, affective, cognitive and social. We think that this teaching must begin from characteristics of the sport and its educational possibilities, even though, as it is known, sport can be, or not, educative, depending on the use that we made of it. Following to Tabernero, Marquez, y Llanos (2002), the main person will be the coach/teacher in the sports initiation. For this reason we defend an educational practice of the table tennis.