This article aims at discussing Axel Honneth's theory of social recognition in order to highlight this theory's potential to better understand the intersubjective relationships built in school settings, as well as the construction of physical education teachers' identities. The "second class" status of physical education means that the fight for recognition should represent a fundamental element in the construction of these teachers' identities, as the sense of "being" a physical education teacher is closely related to the conditions for recognizing this subject/field in schools.
Physical Education; Recognition; Teaching