A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Mod...
ISBN: 9780073376493 | 0073376493
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/21/2009
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This engaging and informative text will hold the attention of students and scholars as they take a journey through time to understand the role that history and philosophy have played in shaping the course of sport and physical education in Western and selected non-Western civilizations. From Mesoamerica and Ancient Greece to the 2008 Olympic Games, the book touches on religion, politics, social movements, and individuals as they contributed to the development of sport and physical education. An extensive array of pedagogical tools--including ti... MORE
| Ancient Civilizations | |
| History and Philosophy in Sport and Physical Education | |
| Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica | |
| Greece | |
| Rome | |
| From the Spiritual World to the Secular World: Changing Concepts of the Body | |
| Philosophy, Sport, and Physical Education During the Middle Ages: 900-1400 | |
| The Renaissance and the Reformation: 1300-1600 | |
| Th... MORE | |
| Philosophical Positions of the Body and the Development of Physical Education: Contributions of the Germans, Swedes, and Danes in Nineteenth-Century Europe | |
| The Theoretical and Professional Development of American Physical Education | |
| The Impact of Science and the Concepts of Health on the Theoretical and Professional Development of Physical Education, 1885-1930 | |
| The Transformation of Physical Education: 1900-1939 | |
| Historical and Philosophical Development of Sport in America | |
| Sport in the Colonial Period | |
| Changing Concepts of the Body: An Overview of Sport and Play in Nineteenth-Century America | |
| Sport in the Twentieth Century | |
| A Social and Political History of the Modern Olympic Games | |
| Pioneers and Progress: 1896-1936 | |
| The Cold War Olympics: 1948-1988 | |
| After the Cold War: 1992-2008 | |
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