| （Institute of Sport and Physical Education Sociology，Shandong University，Jinan 250061，China） Abstract: With the heats of educational reform in the United States, profound changes have been made to the study of theoretical resources for physical education in the United States. Since the 1950s, the educational reform in the United States successively went through such heats as the new curriculum movement, equal educational opportunity promotion movement, foundation restoration movement, school reconstruction movement, national standard move-ment, and the movement of combining scholastic education with job demands. In the mean time, the reform heats have also boosted the development of theoretical resources for physical education in the United States, and created famous theories such as human movement, academic principles for physical education, sports education, humanistic physical education, behaviorism, constructivism and fitness education, which greatly boosted the development of theories about physical education and health worldwide. Based on examining and analyzing the development of educational reform in the United States and prominent characteristics shown, the author analyzed and studied the way to the development of theoretical resources for physical educational reform in the United States, thus gaining an insight into the basic trend of development of the physical educational reform in the United States, hoping to some-how enlighten the intensification and way selection of the development of the physical educational reform in China.
Key words: theory of physical education；way to the development of physical education；education in the United States |
