Physical Education and Health Education: Which Common Knowledge?
This study aims at identifying the different objects of knowledge taught in physical education (PE) as compared with health education; it also aims at understanding the reasons for the professors’ didactic choices. The two case studies that are presented show that three major didactic dimensions related to health education are, in fact, taught in PE, namely the physical, critical and psychosocial dimensions. We also observe that the two teachers are unable to define this notion clearly. Finally, the subject’s history and his experience as a physical activity practitioner have consequences on the didactic choices in PE and thus in health education.