Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Place of sensibility and conceptions of the body and nature in Physical Education

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The aim of this communication is to present our international research project of embodied pedagogies and Physical Education (PE). This project resonates with globally shared societal issues: mental health, bodily well-being (Paintendre and Schirrer, 2024), sustainability (Schnitzler, Engtsu and Wassner, 2020; Lefevre, Schnitzler, Engstu, Schirrer, forthcoming), acceleration/resonance (Rosa, 2018) and nature-deficit disorder (Louv, 2015). It aims to identify and compare the conceptions and uses of the pupils’ sensory experience in PE in four countries (France, Japan, Norway, Quebec), with a focus on their bodily experience of the natural environment. How do children experience body nature during PE classes? How is this experience conceptualized, and possibly mobilized for pedagogical purposes? PE is sometimes perceived as secondary, a time for letting off steam accumulated during more “important” subjects. However, PE can potentially provide powerful sensory experiences (Paintendre and Schirrer, 2022; Paintendre, Schirrer, Sève, 2020). Does PE in these four countries aim to encourage pupils to develop a sensory relationship with their own body and with the environment? To develop internal and external bodily awareness? If so, in what ways? What is the place of relational ontologies (Descola, 2005) in PE? In curricula? In the practice of teaching? Our theoretical framework is phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, 1945), enaction (Varela, Thompson & Rosch, 2006), sociology of curricula (Forquin, 2008 ; Poggi, 2011 ) and comparative education (Aikenhead & Otsuji, 2000 ; Regnault, 2017 ; Bezeau et al., 2021 ; Musard, 2018 ; Le Bot et al., 2011). Two methods will be used to reach our objectives: - A comparative analysis of curricula by using a tool built collectively with the partners of the four countries. - An analysis of teaching practices by using standardized questionnaires adapted to each country and semi-structured interviews. The first results of comparative analyses of the curricula will be presented, focusing on the place given to body awareness, environment awareness and outdoor activities. Our project resonates with the theme of the AIESEP 2025 conference, ‘Making Waves: Transformative Practices in Physical Education’. This is because our practical objective is to develop concrete professional guidelines for PE teachers, in order to facilitate the implementation of embodied and sensory pedagogical content, with a view to building ecocentric attitudes (Kopnina, 2014) and bodily well-being among pupils.

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hal-05558621 , version 1 (18-03-2026)

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Mary Schirrer, Hakon Engstu, Brice Favier-Ambrosini, Akira Kurashima, Gaëlle Le Bot, et al.. Place of sensibility and conceptions of the body and nature in Physical Education. Making waves: Transformative practices in Physical Education, AIESEP, May 2025, Saint Petersburg (Florida), United States. ⟨hal-05558621⟩
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