Abstract
The physical education for Living had been actively developed after the Second World War in Japan. That had gradually changed the viewpoint to the cultural movement because of the issue of the Course of Study with restriction of law. It is the objective of the present study that we investigate how the advocators' theories of physical education for Living changed during the transform. The present study is to investigate the change of the Maekawa's theory of his view of the objective of physical education and the concrete objective of the physical education. We refer books and treatises by Dr. Mineo Maekawa, the mostrepresentative theorist of physical education for living in Japan: the Method of Physical Education in 1954, the treatise in 1958 about Maekawa's stance on the objective of physical education in the Course of Study and the Method of Physical Education in 1961 and so on. Revealed results are as follows 1. More specific objective of physical education, such as building force and effective movement life were derived from general objective of physical education. 2. From the model such as physical movement → physical movement life → physical life field, the education through physical activities developed. 3. Complicated objective such as objective of physical education, objective of general and objective of specific turned to simple objective of physical education and their contents mainly became physical activities. 4. The objective of physical education turned to the realization of handy objectives instead of setting objectives as the main task, and the policy that emphasize the process of physical education revealed itself.
