[[alternative]]The research on the ROC policy of physical education for schools

[[abstract]]The research on the ROC policy of physical education for schools Graduate Student: Tseng Juei Chen In order to investigate the formative background, the main points and characteristics of the ROC policy of physical education for schools after 1949, this research utilizes historical and content analysis methods. Such methods enable us to study and analyze the concepts of the authority towards physical education, the administrative plans and achievement reports of the ministry of education for physical education and all the relative laws and regulations governing physical education. Finally, we are able to reach the following conclusions： Firstly, the formation of the ROC policy of physical education for schools has been influenced by the following factors listed below. These factors include；governmental decision making, current cross-strait political situation, changes in military situation, developments in internal politics, economy and social culture and lastly, the international tendencies toward physical education. Secondly, the main point of the ROC policy of physical education for schools is to cultivate citizens able to defend themselves, and their country. Thus , citizens capable of reviving and reconstructing their nations (as during the ROC government retreat to Taiwan in former years). However, since 1971 , the goal of physical education has shifted to the cultivation of excellent athletes, participation in international competition, enlargement of diplomatic space and in the raising of citizens who are healthy in mind and body, such as were evident at the time the ROC government recoiled from the united nations. Thirdly, the characteristics of the ROC policy of physical education for schools are military-orientated, sport-orientated and education-orientated. After 1971,sport and education became the two main focuses. Fourthly, the development of the ROC policy of physical education for primary school is to inspire students' sports interests；for junior high school is to cultivate the students' habits in leisure and enjoyable sport；for senior high school and beyond, the focus in on promoting students' physical fitness and on the cultivation of good recreation and leisure habits regarding physical activity. The fifth and final point is the goal of raising the quality of physical education teachers, improving and managing the athletic facilities effectively, implementing a multifarious physical education curriculum that is both vigorous and in accord with educational theory. The above are the important stratagem for promoting the normalization of physical education for schools. Key words：policy of physical education, physical education for school, ROC.