ABSTRACT
As a social institution the school has always been bound by two requirements: to make the process of learning more effective, and to limit its loss of control over students. Whatever the era and its dominant ideologies, pedagogical success and disciplinary normalization were but two aspects of the same political goal – the regulation of human behaviour in society. While every area of schooling was concerned, physical education was seen as a particularly efficient tool since body education was its main preoccupation.
