History Notes

______ as the antidote to a “soft” life

Physcial activity

Instructors were often …

Medical doctors or military personnel

What was the curriculum for physical activity?

A&P, physics, anthropometric, and educational theory

At a conference in 1890, Luther Halsey Gulick declares _____ a “new professsion”

Physical education

Which wars influenced physical education?

WWI

WWII

Cold War

The 1990s-1960s were known as the _____ of physical education

“golden age”

The Big Ten Body of Knowledge Symposium Project identified six areas of specialization:

• administrative theory in athletics and PE

• Biomechanics

• Exercise physiology

• History and philosophy of PE

• Motor learning/sport psychology

• Sociology and sport education

After the 1960s, PE had a…

Decline of teacher training and professional unity

A branch of knowledge designed to produce and share expert knowledge

Academic discipline

Approximately ____ US colleges and universities offer an undergraduate degree with kinesiology in the name

532

Since 1990, Kinesiology was a ____ title

Unifying

According to National Academy of Kinesiology, this is a multifaceted field of study in which movement or physical activity in the _____

Intellectual focus