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Clapton Orient
Dewar Shield
elementary
Elementary School
Elementary School Curriculum
Elementary School Football
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Fa Amateur Cup
Fa Cup Final
Football Association
Glengall Road
hackney
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Outdoor Games
Oxford House
park
public
Public School Missions
school
schoolboy
Schoolboy Football
South London
South London Press
Sporting Dimension
St Mark's College
St Mark’s College
Tower Hamlets
University Settlement
upton
Upton Park
West Ham
West Ham Park
West Ham United
wick
Wilton Road
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780713040630
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The 1870 Education Act that opened up elementary education for all children contained no provision for outdoor games. This book explains how teachers, through the elementary school football association, introduced boys to organized football as an out-of-school activity. The influence and significance of this work, insofar as it relates to the elementary school curriculum and the growth of professional and amateur football are explored in detail, including:
* How ideological commitments and contemporary concerns for the physical welfare of children in cities may have led teachers to promote schoolboy football when it was not permitted during school hours
* The extent to which out of school organised football may have led to outdoor games being accepted as part of the school curriculum
* How elementary school football in London in the late nineteenth century influenced the development of the amateur game.
This is a fascinating account of the origins of schoolboy football and the factors that have influenced its development and the consequences and benefits that have followed not only for school football but for sport in schools and communities as a whole.
