This paper is a reaction to contemporary concerns surrounding the place of physical education in school curricula. It is intended to be both an ideological outline of the central characteristics of school physical education and an attempt to evaluate the forces shaping the subject. The paper concludes with a summary of the place and position of physical education in professional as well as academic hierarchies.
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