From "Cultivators of the Soil" to "Citizen-Soldiers": Physically Active Education and the Nation at Maryland Agricultural College

Autor/inn/en	Clevenger, Samuel M.; Jette, Shannon
Titel	From "Cultivators of the Soil" to "Citizen-Soldiers": Physically Active Education and the Nation at Maryland Agricultural College
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 22 (2017) 8, S.958-970 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2015.1106468
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Educational History; Physical Activities; Agricultural Colleges; Teaching Methods; Discourse Analysis; Males; Military Training; Political Influences; War; Nationalism; United States History; Land Grant Universities; Federal Legislation; Educational Legislation; Maryland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät; Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Diskursanalyse; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Militärausbildung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Krieg; Nationalismus; Bundesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz
Abstract	In 1866, military drill and instruction became part of the curriculum of Maryland Agricultural College as a result of the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, a law setting the terms for the establishment of agricultural colleges across the USA. The introduction of military instruction meant a direct inclusion of physically active coursework that preceded the widespread emergence of organized physical education courses in American educational institutions. However, this was not the first time physical activity was used and discussed at the college: previously, the uses of physical activity at the college wholly entailed outdoor agricultural practice in which students applied pedagogical training about agricultural techniques in the field. In this paper, we examine early Maryland Agricultural College printed discourse from 1859 to 1886, studying how the college shifted focus from idealizing the Republican male citizen as a physically active farmer or "cultivator of the soil" in the years preceding the American Civil War to a physically active "citizen-soldier" in response to the social and political effects of the conflict. Our analysis sheds light on the historical place of such physical activity coursework within the larger historical narrative of American physical education's emergence, and also provides useful historical context for critically viewing linkages between physical culture, nationalism, agricultural education and the military in contemporary physical education. (As Provided).
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