The emergence of physical education as a subject for compulsory schooling in the first half of the nineteenth century. The case of Phokion Heinrich Clias and Adolf Spiess.

Autor/in	Horlacher, Rebekka
Titel	The emergence of physical education as a subject for compulsory schooling in the first half of the nineteenth century. The case of Phokion Heinrich Clias and Adolf Spiess.
Quelle	In: Nordic Journal of Educational History, 4 (2017) 2, S. 13-30 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2001-9076
DOI	10.36368/njedh.v4i2.93
Schlagwörter	Schulbuch; Sportunterricht; Schweiz
Abstract	In general, schooling and nation-building are associated with the unifying role of language and history education, since language and culture are perceived as fundamental pillars of the nation. Less discussed - at least regarding the curriculum - is the role of physical education, even if physical education was a highly political issue in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Based on a case study of Switzerland and textbooks for physical education by Adolf Spiess and the activities of Phokion Heinrich Clias for the Bernese school, this article discusses how physical education, distinct from the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' care for the body, became a school subject of the nineteenth century compulsory schools and how it was related to the notion of nation and nation-building. It argues that physical education became first part of the "modern" philanthropic education and schooling, was soon taken for granted as an essential curricular component of nation-building and lost thereby the political threat.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2022/2