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Physical education, training in physical fitness and in skills requiring or promoting such fitness. Many traditional societies included training in hunting, ritual dance, and military skills, while others—especially those emphasizing literacy—often excluded physical skills.
Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys. Ed. or PE, and sometimes informally referred to as gym class or simply just gym, is a subject taught in schools around the world.
Physical education has existed since the earliest stages of human society, in forms as simple as the transmission of basic survival skills, such as hunting.
New sports are always being invented and developed. One of the oldest recorded forms of sports was bull-leaping in the Greek island of Crete, where slaves jumped over the horns of a bull. The ancient Greeks were lovers of sport and taught it to their children at school.
Physical education has traversed the annals of time, its roots extending deep into the tapestry of human civilization. From primal survival skills to the refined realms of athletic competitions and scientific methodologies, the history of physical education is a fascinating journey through the ages.
The Evolution of Physical Education. In 386 B.C., P.E. began in ancient Greece. Plato is the one who invented physical education, hosting classes at his school titled Akademia. He understood the importance of teaching children about physical fitness, and students began learning it at age seven.
This paper begins with a very abbreviated description of the history of American Physical Education in order to promote an understanding of the developmental parallels of national influences on physical education at SUNY Cortland.
Part 1: Physical education in ancient societies -- Part 2: Physical education in the middle ages and early modern times -- Part 3: Physical education in modern Europe -- Part 4: Physical education in the United States -- Part 5: Physical education in other modern countries -- Part 6: A panorama of world physical education
The study of history and philosophy in sport and physical education. Section 1 Ancient civilizations: summer, Eygpt, and China Rome. Section 2 From the spiritual world to the secular world - changing concepts of the body: Middle Ages the Renaissance
An example of the history of physical education that eschewed social theory, but at the same time proffered a philosophy of history, illustrating different positions within the reconstructionist paradigm, is Gerber’s (1971) Innovators and Institutions in Physical Education.