Abstract
Today, against the backdrop of efforts to alleviate teachers' excessive workloads and rebuild students'
sport environments, regional expansion of extracurricular club activities is being promoted. This study
aims to derive discussion points from the perspective of sport management regarding how students'
“physical education” changes through the regional expansion of extracurricular club activities. Specifically, this study examines the following two points. First, what structural changes occur in school physical
education services through the regional expansion of extracurricular club activities? Second, how will
students' sport life change through the regional expansion of extracurricular club activities? This study examined changes in students' sport life from the perspective of Amartya Sen's capability approach. The findings suggest that the regional expansion of extracurricular club activities has the possibility to change students' sport life. In particular, the change may occur in the following two aspects. First, the regional expansion could lead to a situation where students are unable to utilize the physical literacy they have learned in physical education classes within the school. Second, students may lose the freedom to autonomously create their own sport life. The regional expansion will change students' sport life, making it even more important to enhance physical education and related subjects at school. Specifically, this could involve enriching sport activities with diverse others and practices that create new sports within physical education classes. Through the discussions in this study, it becomes clear that discussing the regional expansion of extracurricular club activities also pertains to the public guarantee of students' sport life.
