(School of Physical Education,Soochow University,Suzhou 215021,China) Abstract: Based on literature data, to a certain degree the author sorted out main schools in the history of school physical education development in contemporary China and issues they debated, and put forward the following opinions: in the 1950s, influential debates were the academic debates between the pro-American school and the pro-Soviet school, they decided which course of development school physical education in new China went finally; in the 1960s, influential debates were the academic debates between the skill school and the making school in school physical education teaching, they directly resulted in the appearance of such a basic mode of school physical education as “2-class, 2-gym, 2-activity”; after the 1980s, what maintained influence on the physical education aca-demic circle in China were the “genuine physical education” school and its related theoretical ideas. Key words: physical education history;school physical education;school physical education schools;China |