A guide to the history of physical educationLeonard, Fred Eugene
History
A guide to the history of physical education
Leonard, Fred Eugene
Physical education and training; Physical education and training -- History
In 1881, at the end of the summer term, Miss Löfving withdrew from the
service of the Board, and Miss Martina Bergman (later Mme. Bergman
Österberg)[172] was appointed superintendent of physical exercise in
girls’ and infants’ schools. Within the next six years, under her
direction, the system was introduced into 300 schools, and 1000 teachers
were trained. September 23, 1885, Miss Bergman opened a Training College
for (women) Teachers of Physical Education at Reremonde, Broadhurst
Gardens, Hampstead, N. W. (a borough of London), removing it ten years
later to Kingsfield, Dartford Heath, Kent, and in her thirty years at
the head of this school she built it up into an institution of more than
national influence and importance. In 1893 she was present at the eighth
annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of
Physical Education and the Congress of Physical Education in Chicago, and
in 1900 she attended the International Congress of Physical Education
in Paris and gave a demonstration there with her pupils.[173] Captain
J. D. Haasum, graduated at the Stockholm Central Institute in 1872 and
teacher there since 1873, spent six months in London in 1884 and gave the
first training course in Swedish gymnastics to a number of men teachers
under the School Board, with the help of a gymnasium fitted up at the
Crampton Street schools, Walworth. This work was continued by Allan
Broman (Stockholm Central Institute of Gymnastics 1883), who at a later
period (October, 1911) opened in London a “Central Institute for Swedish
Gymnastics, for Men Students of Physical Training.”
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