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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jones, Ruan

Titel

Edward Thring's Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 1800: Malcolm Tozer, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. 376pp. £50.36 (hardback). ISBN 1-5275-2818-9

Ist Teil von

• Sport, Education and Society, 2020, Vol.25 (5), p.586-589

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The reverend Edward Thring was headmaster at Uppingham School between 1853 and 1887. During this enlightened and liberal period, he transformed the school. While the Cult of Athleticism, keenly espoused through Muscular Christian ideals and the games ethic took hold throughout the Victorian public school system, epitomised through Tom Brown's Schooldays, Thring's Uppingham flourished on a broad and balanced physical education (PE) curriculum, underpinned by Platonic ideals. Thring's holistic ideals were embodied through a PE curriculum that included games, gymnastics, athletics, swimming and countryside pursuits, as well as an academic and vocational curriculum that catered for the many and not the few. Upon his death, the Spartans conquered Uppingham and his Athenian principles were usurped by Edward Carus Selwyn; they lived on only in memory. Thring's legacy has been profound: his ideas were adopted by the progressive school movement and found favour within the first PE training colleges. Fittingly, his ideals bore fruit within the first National Curriculum for PE as explored within Tozer's historical account.