The School Culture Resulting from the Teaching of Physical Education and Sports in Tunisian Schools

Abstract

Our article from curriculum sociology to understand and explain the school culture comes from the teaching of physical education and sports in Tunisian schools through interactions between teachers and their students in a teaching setting. The empirical material on which the analyzes are based comes from two main sources. The nature of the physical activities serving as a support for the teaching sequences in physical education as well as the methods of practice valued in this discipline are apprehended, first of all, from the most recent official texts: teaching programs providing the main orientations, accompanying documents enabling the objectives pursued to be defined precisely, official texts governing the baccalaureate physical education tests. Data collection was done by means of a questionnaire, based on a national sample. The survey base chosen is made up of colleges, public general and professional high schools. The research whose main results are presented in the context of this article is centered on the activities practiced in physical education and their focus on a core of practices considered fundamental and the discrepancy with the expectations of the pupils and the evolution of the practice of the activities. Outside of school, and finally the preference for forms of practice based on confrontation and the production of performances.