Enlightening Rationality’s Logic and Performance:A Historical Deconstruction of America’s Physical Education

In recent years,China's physical education reform holds the belief that to learn from the overseas theories,and not to forget the nationalistic position and has made a great number of researches on American physical education.However,due to the differences in geographic location,language,as well as ideology,normally direct observation and learning through “common contexts”like Physical Education teaching takes place.In terms of deeper understanding and research about the problems faced by nowadays America,there is an obvious lack of means to investigate.Based on the limitation,in order to solve this problem,theoretical analysis is necessary.This paper adopts the methods of literature analysis and interview to investigate the logic relationship between enlightening rationality and American physical education,the result indicates that enlightening rationality,in different stages,evolved into protestant ethics scientism instrumental rationality technical rationality,respectively,and reveals itself as modernity currently.By using the theories discontinuity partial resistance of Foucault,to deconstruct American physical education,this paper concludes that the loss or impossibility of the return of subjectivity is the core issue in this crisis.Therefore,for China's future physical education reform,in order to avoid this crisis to occur,it is suggested to critically understand America's experience,and to re-examine the value and meaning of modernization.