L’Éducation Physique et Sportive face à la culture de son temps : la question de l’intégration des pratiques d’entretien du corps dans les programmes scolaires depuis le début des années 1980

From the 80’ s, the significant complexification of the sportive field leads to numerous questions among the academic physical and sportive education’s actors. If the mayor part agrees on the teaching contents which give a value to the competition sports, some new questions come up : have the physical and sportive education content to change in order to still fit the contemporary culture ? Which «new » practices, and so, which norms of behaviour, are worthy of being passed in school ? Which classifications of this contents have to be adopted ? From the sociology of curricula, this article focus on the question of the integration of body’s care physical practices into physical and sportive education academic programs. The three significant steps, which are underlined, aim to analyse the debates and controversies caused by this problem and their impacts on the official texts which succeeded one another in this time.