PE teachers as promotors of physically educated citizens: Comparison of their representations in Quebec and Wallonia

If physical education (PE) was sport oriented since the 80’s, an international movement underlined a need of change in order to deal more with the society evolution. Since the turn of the new millennium, PE has been increasingly linked to the promotion of physically active lifestyles. The implementation of such change of core values differed dramatically from one country to another. For example, in two French speaking regions, Quebec and Wallonia, the educational stakeholders reacted in different ways. As soon as 2001, the Quebec Ministry of Education decided to entrust PE and health education... Mehr ...