| （School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China） Abstract: From the perspective of history, the author expatiated on the effects of the progressive education move-ment on the development of US scholastic physical education, and from which the author drew three inspirations: 1) the United States is a young nation in the world; its sport is developed extremely fast, although started relatively late; the progressive education movement has boosted sports reform, being its driving power; 2) although the pro-gressive education movement in the United States has made great achievements, negative effects it produces are also tremendous; any “reform movements” mean for good things, but the results and effects they bring may be various; when we review achievements made in scholastic physical education reform in recent years by referring to past ex-periences, we should never just look at achievements made but neglect extremely formalized approaches that may get us off the right track, to which we should pay our vigilant attention; 3) affected by the progressive education movement, the United States has completely neglected gymnastic education, which resulted in very serious prob-lems with student’s constitution; scholastic gymnastic education in China in the new century should be further strengthened.
Key words: school physical education；progressive education movement；United States |
