• DOI:10.1038/151193d0
• Corpus ID: 4124569

Physical Education

@article{Russell1943PhysicalE,
  title={Physical Education},
  author={Chantelle Russell},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1943},
  volume={151},
  pages={193-193}
}

• Chantelle Russell
• Published 1943
• Education
• Nature

IN a lecture delivered before the Anglo-Swedish Society and published in the December issue of the Anglo-Swedish Review on the development of physical education in Great Britain and the Dominions, Miss P. Spafford, organizing secretary of the Ling Physical Education Association, said that organized physical education in Great Britain and the Dominions originated in the elementary schools, while the educational, medical and recreative gymnastics were based on Per Henrik Ling's principles. In newly built schools throughout the country conditions for physical education are excellent. Many have their own swimming bath as well as a field for games and a gymnasium. The physical education scheme in schools in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand is largely that carried out in British schools. The War has inevitably caused a certain set-back in physical education owing mainly to a shortage of gymnastics and game schooling as well as a lack of gymnastics equipment. The most popular physical activity in all the countries of the British Commonwealth is swimming. Physical training in the Services is based on the Swedish and Danish systems and is closely linked up with recent research in physiology and psychology. Until recently there has been little or no organized physical training in the universities, although there has always been sport of various forms. There is a real need for further instructional cooperation, and further research is essential, especially into the physiological basis of exercises.