1989•Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducationOpen access

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

Margaret Gillett, Jean Mangan

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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 consolidation 5. Conspicuous resources, anti-intellectualism and sporting pedagogues 6. 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.

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Key concepts: Ideology, Consolidation (business), Public education, Sociology, History, Pedagogy, Political science, Public administration