Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School : the Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology.

Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School : the Emergence and Consolidation of an Educational Ideology.

Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor Mangan...

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Main Author: Mangan, J. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Sport in the global society.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Endowed public schools (Great Britain) > History > 19th century.
Education > Aims and objectives > Great Britain.
Athletics > Great Britain > History > Sources.
School sports > Great Britain > History > Sources.
Endowed public schools (Great Britain) > History > 20th century.
Athletics
Education > Aims and objectives
Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
School sports
Great Britain
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Sheldon Rothblatt; Introduction by Jeffrey Richards; Regression and Progression: Introduction to the New Edition by J.A. Mangan; Prologue; Part I: The Growth of the Ideology; 1. Reformation, indifference and liberty; 2. Licence, antidote and emulation; 3. Idealism, idealists and rejection; 4. Compulsion, conformity and allegiance; Part II: The Forces of Ideological Lonsolidation.
  • 5. Conspicuous resources, anti-intellectualism and sporting pedagogues6. Oxbridge fashions, complacent parents and imperialism; 7. Fez, 'blood' and hunting crop: the symbols and rituals of a spartan culture; 8. Play up and play the game: the rhetoric of cohesion, identity, patriotism and morality; Epilogue; Appendices; I. Historical documents of special significance in the evolution of athleticism; II. Historical documents dealing with various aspects of the economics of athleticism.
  • III. The school magazine: (a) the school magazine as a primary source (b) a page and correspondence analysis of the school magazines 1866-1966IV. Some nineteenth- and twentieth-century timetables in relation to games; V. Captains of school, games and academic awards; VI. 'Poets' of athleticism; VII. Salaries of assistant masters at harrow in 1874; VIII. Jesus college, cambridge: educational background of entrants in the nineteenth century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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