(School of Physical Education and Training,Shanghai University of Sport,Shanghai 200438,China) Abstract: The authors analyzed the content characteristics of 231 articles published on the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (an authoritative journal about internal physical education teaching) since the new century, and revealed the following findings: the research topics are mostly researches on the main body of physical education teaching; researches on pre-job teachers, teacher’s professional career development, teacher education evaluation, student’s gender, learning interest and motives, and teenager (female) physical activities and sports capacities, are popular. Key words: school physical education;international physical education teaching;Journal of Teaching in Physical Education |