Physical activity promotion in French schools: public policy from Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy.

Growing of sedentary and physical inactivity behaviors added to the failure to respect primary schools curriculum in physical education in France, make the promotion of school physical activity a major stake. Hosting Olympics and Paralympics games in Paris in 2024 would be an opportunity. The 30 minutes of daily physical activity (“30APQ”) scheme, is seen as an important piece of the legacy project. This thesis project in public policy analysis and sociology focus on changes in educational politics through the example of physical activity promotion. We study the development of the program, emergence and implementation. In order to grasp talks that lead to form the scheme we realized observations during emerging phase (e.g. steering group meeting in games committee office, 2021). Thirty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals: 1) in a political setting (the Ministry of Sport, the Ministry of Education, the Olympic and Paralympic Games Committee); 2) in an intermediary capacity (in the decentralised departments of the ministries); 3) those working in the field (teachers). This first part of collection and data analysis is based on a qualitative methodology, a second part is a survey addressed to teachers. The objective is to measured extent of the scheme in two French departments. The first one is in the area of the games, the other around Rennes (Brittany). Data should complete first collection on the disparity of implementation, in number, forms and objectives, of the scheme. Our results from the qualitative analysis show that non-educational actors but medical staff and games organizer made choices about the form of the scheme. An outcome of it is the opposition, in the first place, of schools actors, explaining tardive implementation. We will defend that efficiency of physical activity promotion school programs cannot be understand without the study of his origin and actors involvement.