Reality and tasks of Physical Education Curriculum in Japan and in foreign countries

1999年，在日本、美国、英国、法国和德国收集了关于每个主题的信息。特别是在11月，我们的一名成员参加了在柏林举行的国际体育教育会议，收集了世界体育教育的信息。根据这次峰会的信息，我们知道澳大利亚和新西兰的体育教育对我们的项目有很好的建议，我们的成员已经去了这些国家并收集了相关信息。通过对德国海德堡大学留日人员的调查，了解了德国高校体育教育的有关情况，并在2000年大坂举行的日本体育教育学会成立20周年国际会议上发表了部分研究成果。我们还在筑波大学举办了世界体育危机研讨会。约有60人参加了研讨会。近两年对学校体育选修课和高校体育选修课的研究表明，学校体育选修课要做到3学时，在世界范围内是一件困难的事情。但是，另一方面，也有许多努力，以获得社会支持的学校体育在几个层次。例如在科学界、非政府组织和政府中。ICSSPE的柏林议程和MINEPS III的埃斯特角宣言是这种努力的典型之一。在这种努力的背后，人们认识到需要摆脱体育的负面形象，并在课程层面上展示体育教学的可能性。在这种趋势下，各国都认识到体育教师教育的重要性。

In 1999, informations on each theme are gathered in Japan, the USA, GB, France and Germany. Especially, in November, one of our members have attended the world summit on Physical Education held by ICSSPE in Berlin and gathered information on Physical Education in the world. Based on the information on this summit, we knew that Physical Education in Australian and also in New Zealand have a good suggestion for our project, our members have gone to theses countries and gathered related information. Also from staffs of the Heidelberg university in Germany, who have stayed in Japan, we got the information on Physical Education in higher education in Germany.In 2000, some of researchs results were presented in the International Conference for the 20th Anniversary of the Japanese Society of Sport Education in Osaka. We held also the symposium on the crisis of Physical Education in the world in Tsukuba University. About 60 participants have attended at the symposium. Research on elective Physical Education in schools and Physical Education in higher education have also done in these two years.From these research, we found that to keep 3 hours of Physical Education in schools was difficult in the would. But, on the other hands, there were many effort to get social support on Physical Education in schools in several levels. For example in scientific society, NGO and also in government. Berlin Agenda by ICSSPE and Punta del Este Declaration by MINEPS III were typical one of such effort. Behind such effort, one recognize the need to get off the negative image of sport and to show the pedagogical possibilities of sport in curriculum level. In this trends, people recognize the importance of teacher education of Physical Educator in each countries.