Marching forwards or backwards? Physical education and the army in early twentieth-century Ireland.

Autor/in	Heffernan, Conor
Titel	Marching forwards or backwards? Physical education and the army in early twentieth-century Ireland. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Vorwärts oder rückwärts marschieren? Sportunterricht und die Armee im Irland des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
Quelle	In: Sport in society, 23 (2020) 8, S. 1280-1298 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0981; 1743-0437; 1743-0445
DOI	10.1080/17430437.2020.1769945
Schlagwörter	Ideologie; Kulturelle Entwicklung; Krieg; Geschichte (Histor); Nationalgeschichte; Militär; Kinder- und Jugendsport; Körperkultur; Schulsport; Sportsoziologie; Sportunterricht; 20. Jahrhundert; Irland
Abstract	This article examines systems of physical education implemented in Ireland in the period 1890-1939, their origins and underlying messages. The systems used to train children's bodies were not ideologically neutral but reflected wider societal ideals surrounding health, fitness, warfare and modernity. There is a particular focus on the first decade of the twentieth century when systems of military drill based on British Army practice were brought into Irish classrooms, and also on the 1930s, when the Irish Free State Army and some Irish schools, briefly trialled the Sokol System of Physical Culture from Czechoslovakia. While the motivations for introducing these programmes reflected changed circumstances, the underlying messages spoke to much greater continuities. There is a particular emphasis on the symbolic function of physical education in Ireland in the four decades spanning independence and partition. It was seen as a means of protecting the nation's health, improving children's intelligence and as a defence against undesirable aspects of social change. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2021/1