The Postmodern Sentiment and Teaching Physical Education

後現代主義的觀感與體育教學

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.

Man believed that the world was composed of man, the subject and non-human entities, the objects. Philosophy attempts to locate the nature of either subjects or objects, thus, the argument between subjectivism and objectivism. Such metaphysical arguments go on for thousands of years without coming to an agreement. Philosophers in the last century turn their attentions away from the subject - object argument. They focus on the bridge of the two - language, which is the focus of postmodernism. This paper tries to elaborate briefly the nature of post-modernity and its influence on current education practices, particularly on physical education. It is not meant to claim academic rigor in this short essay for the purpose of it is only to inform those, PE teachers in particularly, who are new to postmodern thoughts. It is only an alignment of some relevant writings gearing to this purpose.

哲學是探討應該如何活在世上、何種事物是存在的及此類事物的本質、什麼算是真的知識以及什麼是推理的正確原則的一門學科。哲學並不存在一個沒有爭議的定義，這個領域隨著時代轉變而不斷地擴張，且根據不同的時代對不同的問題也有改變。後現代主義把哲學定義為創造概念的學術、本文嘗試從哲學觀點探討後現代主義與體育教學的關係。