Abstract:
Using the methods of literature review and content analysis, the "subject-tool-content" three-dimensional analysis framework is established to conduct a quantitative comparison of the three editions of Chinese physical education and health curriculum standards for compulsory education. It is held that from the perspective of subject evolution, students as the subject status are prominent while other subjects' show a downward trend in curriculum standards. In terms of tool development, environment-based policy tools have strong universality while the application of supply and demand policy tools needs to be innovated. As for the content change, PMC index has been increased from edition to edition, with both convergence and divergence for the evolution of various policy variables. For the overall evaluation, there is still room for the improvement in the content design such as the collaborative participation of various subjects, the distribution balance of the three types of policy tools and the nature of policy, policy intervention, policy area, and supporting measures, etc. Suggestions are to grasp the overall interests and coordinate local relations to shape the collaborative promotion mechanism of PE and health curriculum reform, optimize the ratio of supply and demand policy tools to shape the "policy toolbox" of PE and health curriculum reform, and to strengthen the local and school-based PE curriculum policy design to shape the policy innovation and reproduction of PE and health curriculum reform.