Rational Recreation

Question 0

What were Mob sports?

Answer 0

The games boys played in their home villages which were very violent.
These were brought into private schools.

Question 1

What is rational recreation?

Answer 1

Anything to restore health

Question 2

What is muscular Christianity?

Answer 2

Health, mind and body

Question 3

What is athleticism?

Answer 3

The idea of developing both the physical and moral side of your ha rafter through playing team sport.

Question 4

When did codification of sport come about?

Answer 4

When schools began to compete against each other since their must be a consistent set of rules.

Question 5

Why was it a benefit that the boys at public schools spent their lead ute Tim participating in games?

Answer 5

Because it helped control the boys
They were using up excess energy
Were kept occupied
Therefore they were less violent and didn’t drink or gamble

Question 6

What happened once these boys left the public schools? (1870)

Answer 6

They went on to university- codify the sports.
They went on to own industry- provider facilities o play sport for workers in order to improve the worker’s health and productivity.

Question 7

Why did the improvement of transport in (1870s) lead to codification of sports further?

Answer 7

Because the transport network was used for factories to play other factories.

Question 8

What did the Forster education act (1870) mean?

Answer 8

Children weren’t allowed to work and had to go to state schools.
Families had less income
Employers now wanted a more disciplined work force with a basic level of education (reading, writing, arithmetic)

Question 9

What was PE like in 1870?

Answer 9

European gymnastics

Instructions- movement

Question 10

What was the model course 1904 influenced by?

Answer 10

The defeat of the Boer War where soldiers came back undisciplined and unfit.

Question 11

What was the model course 1904?

Answer 11

• Based around military drill
• Schools employed former soldiers (non commissioner officers, NCO) to act and instructors who delivered COMMAND STYLE exercises to instil discipline.
• Replicating being in the army

Question 12

What was enforced in 1919 (end of WW1)?

Answer 12

A syllabus of physical training

Question 13

What did a syllabus of physical training employ?

Answer 13

-developed to provide a therapeutic effect following ww1.
-people had returned home with illness after ww1 (recreational activities were seen to restore people’s health-> this was extended into schools).
-the government produced a prescriptive syllabus to support teachers.
This style of teaching was similar to drill but without its military basis.

Question 14

1933 introduced..

Answer 14

Last centralised syllabus of physical training

Question 15

What was the last centralised syllabus of physical training?

Answer 15

• more free movement, creativity and group work.
• children were increasingly encouraged to use their imagination.
• greater focus on the development of skills.
• growing interacting between teachers and pupils.

Question 16

What was introduced in 1944?

Answer 16

The Butler Education Act

Question 17

What was the Butler Education Act?

Answer 17

• Required local authorities to proved for recreational sporting facilities within their schools (very different to beginning of 20th century).
• The secondary school teacher was now fully trained and was therefore no longer dependent on following a syllabus drawn up centrally.

Question 18

What was introduced in 1952?

Answer 18

The Influence of child- centred learning in primary schools

Question 19

What was the Influence of child-centred learning in primary schools?

Answer 19

-The publication of moving and growing was produced by the education department as a guideline for primary schools.
-Primary school teacher weren’t trained specifically in PE.
-There was now a belief that the mind needed to be involved as well as the body (this was combined with the movement approach from the centre of dance to develop;
Exploratory work, Problem solving, Creativity, Skill based work and Other activities such as dance, movement, swimming.

Question 20

For KS1 what was the national curriculum for PE in 1988?

Answer 20

Dance, gymnastics and games

Simple skills progressing to movement sequences.

Question 21

In 1988 what was nation curriculum for KS2 PE?

Answer 21

Dance, gymnastics, games, plus two from athletics/ swimming and O&A
-Develop skill and coordination, more complex movement patterns.

Question 22

In 1988 what as the national curriculum for KS3 PE?

Answer 22

4 of 6 areas to be covered (one must games and gym/dance).

-Refining motor skills and developing complexity of movements (smaller versions of adult activities).

Question 23

In 1988 what was the national curriculum for KS4 PE?

Answer 23

Games plus one other activity

-learn to plan prepare and evaluate into a HRE programme.

Question 24

What are the limitations of the present national curriculum for PE?

Answer 24

• dependent on facilities (financial, time, space)
• dual use
• primary schools often don’t have specialists
• timetables war vs ‘academic’
• OAA expensive to organise