Boys at Play: Football in Elementary Schools

dc.creator	Colm Kerrigan
dc.date	2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:38Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:38Z
dc.identifier	1477-5557
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d9d80c6b5e704d5f80ff0a027b13b4bf
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15389
dc.description	This article focuses on the contribution of schoolboy football to three aspects of elementary education in late nineteenth and early twentieth century London schools. These are its benefits individually and collectively to scholars who played it, its role in promoting improved relationships between scholars and teachers in elementary schools and the role of football in identifying these schools as educational institutions that were to become focal points of local communities. Sources investigated include the records of schoolboy football associations, school log books, newspaper reports, published autobiographies of players and a ‘Special Report’ by the Education Department on the voluntary work of teachers in promoting games as extra-curricular activities in elementary schools. While the benefits to health, character training and social development of the boys who played football at their elementary schools are difficult to assess a century later, it is concluded that the value of learning football skills at an early age was important for their proficiency at the game. The extent of the improved relationships between teacher and taught that followed the introduction of football, although exaggerated by some games advocates, was nevertheless likely to have been significant. Finally, by the time of World War One, elementary-school football had helped identify the elementary school as an established and recognised part of the local community.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Institute of Education, University of London
dc.relation	http://www.educatejournal.org/index.php?journal=educate&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=10
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1477-5557
dc.source	Educate~, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 36-45 (2006)
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Boys at Play: Football in Elementary Schools
dc.type	article