A Guide to the History of Physical Education by Fred Eugene Leonard

Description

Fred Eugene Leonard, the American scholar often called the father of physical-education history, set out to recover a neglected story: just how the modern world came to believe that the body deserves schooling. From the physical systems of ancient China and India through the gymnasia of Greece, the camps of Rome, and the drill halls of nineteenth-century Europe, he follows every civilisation that deliberately shaped its people through exercise and regimen.

He gives particular attention to the European fathers of the field — the German Turners, the Swedish system of Ling, and the French and English pioneers who brought gymnastics into the classroom — before tracing how their ideas crossed the Atlantic and took root in American schools, colleges, and recreation. Written for teachers yet readable by anyone, it remains the clearest single account of how the modern idea of physical education was born.

Why readers still come back to it

• The definitive early survey of physical education across world civilisations
• Detailed studies of the German, Swedish, and American systems
• A favourite reference for students and teachers of sport and health

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