The purpose of this study is to show the new domain of a human body culture which physical education should take on. The culture has seldom or never been conscious in physical education up to the present. This study focuses on everyday behavior. Though the research method taken in the study is based upon the related texts, this paper employs a phenomenological consideration focusing on practice.
The author, first of all, examines how the body is thought today, which leads to the consideration about the body that makes the body culture as well as re-examination of the views on the body. And then behavioral action is examined. The difference of behavioral action from such as upbringing and military training is touched on during the process. The refined behavioral action is discussed in relation to the body that makes communication possible. Finally it is concluded that physical education should take on the new domain of the human body culture besides what it covers now.
Physical education has hardly ever been conscious about the domain of the body culture called behavioral action up until now. The domain contains the field of habitus and these behaviors have been mastered in day-to-day life. This includes a phase of discipline on behavior in society. The way of action required in society is collapsing rapidly in today's life, and behavior of children has been falling into disorder. The teachers therefore have to educate them behavior that is required in the present society while re-asking the old culture of upbringing and training. It implies the changes of the objectives and correcting the contents of the subject. This also implies the education of communication capability for living in society. A form of behavior consists of accumulation of the promising thing to exchange with others in each situation, and it is not the skill completed individually but the skill of cooperation with others; then it can be called a body capacity which deals with relationship to others.
It is therefore necessary that physical educators are aware of a domain of the body culture, being aware of selecting the contents carefully, and have to educate them intentionally. The time allocation has to be provided in a lesson in order for children to master the culture, and it must be guaranteed that they can acquire it steadily.
