(1.School of Physical Education,Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006,China;2.Taiyuan Police Vocational College,Taiyuan 030012,China) Abstract: Starting with the overall deterioration of various Chinese student fitness monitoring indexes in 1995, the au-thors analyzed school physical education ideology and physical education curriculum reform in this period, concluded that there was a tendency of weakening of body movement during reform, which was mainly shown in the followings: in the enrichment of school physical education ideology from single directional to multiple directional, the generaliza-tion of sports functions had blurred the essential function of sports – to make the body stronger and healthier; over the decade since physical education teaching syllabus for the compulsive education stage was issued and implemented in 1992, China’s economy developed rapidly, people’s life styles changed tremendously, the syllabus fell behind social development, which showed the relative weakening of body movement; in 1997, physical education teaching syllabus reduced class hours for the practical part, and lowered the proportions of body quality and movement ability in exami-nations, thus weakening body movement; in the process of remodeling of curriculum standards, theoretically a new system based on body movement had not been completed yet, physical education teachers’ lack of curriculum aware-ness and ability had weakened the effectiveness of body movement in physical education teaching practice. The authors proposed to pay full attention to the tendency of weakening of body movement in the physical education curriculum, so as to reduce the effect of movement insufficiency on students’ physical health. Key words: school physical education;body movement;curriculum reform |