| 692 | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
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| 2:30 PM-3:45 PM | Convention Center:250EF |
| NASPE/Sport History Academy |
| Physical Education in International Contexts: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives |
| The three papers in this session provide a critical, international perspective on the development of the American system of physical education. Gertrud Pfister investigates the influence of European physical activity practices (e.g. Swedish gymnastics) in the United States. Jerry Gems examines the acculturation process of German immigrants who successfully introduced German gymnastics into the school curricula in the urban mid-West. In her exploration of over one hundred years of international school hygiene congresses, Roberta Park reports on the persistence of ideas connecting hygiene and physical activity that began with the first international hygiene congress in Nuremberg in 1904. |
Keyword(s): exercise/fitness, health promotion, international issues
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| Presider: Susan G. Zieff, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA |
| Speakers: Gertrud U. Pfister, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gerald R. Gems, North Central College, Naperville, IL; and Roberta J. Park, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |