STAPS: 50 years of history in sports science
In collaboration with StapsIn 2025, the university department of STAPS (Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities) celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Born amid the academic, educational, and cultural changes of the 1970s, it gradually gained recognition in the French academic landscape, at the crossroads of the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences.
From the outset, there have been numerous epistemological debates about the objects, concepts, and methods that characterize these "sports sciences."
The journal Staps, created in 1980 under the aegis of AFRAPS, has accompanied this history by providing a privileged observatory of the questions and transformations in the field. It bears witness to both the structuring of a scientific community and its dialogues with society: education, health, gender, Olympism, professionalization, knowledge assessment, etc.
A former university president, sports historian, and major player in university research and policy, Thierry Terret retraces the major stages of this intellectual and institutional adventure. Drawing on his work and experience, he looks back at the trajectory of the field, the tensions between disciplines, relations with the sports movement, and the contemporary challenges of a field now faced with global issues (ecological, ethical, and political).
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