Danish gymnastics: what's so Danish about the danes?

Trangbæk, Else

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“…It is another paradox that the politics of gymnastics is well studied in the 19th-century and interwar period, but has largely been neglected for its most spectacular development under communism. Research has been carried out as to how the gymnastic movement shaped the national identity in Germany and Austria (Eisenberg, 1996;Krüger, 1996;Langewiesche, 1990;Mosse, 1975Mosse, , 1996Neumann, 1987;Überhorst, 1978;Weber, 1995;Weber and Black, 2000), Scandinavia (Eichberg, 1995a;Trangbaek, 1996), Eastern Europe (Blecking, 1990(Blecking, , 1992Girginov and Bankov, 2000;Liponski, 1996Liponski, , 1999Luh, 1988;Nolte, 2000) or the United States (Barney, 1982). Similarly, research has been undertaken into the role played by gymnastics in the construction of gender roles (Bonde, 2000;Ljunggren, 2000;Nolte, 1993;Trangbaek, 1998) and class identity (Weber, 1971).…”

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Politics of Gymnastics: Mass Gymnastic Displays Under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe

Roubal

2003

Body & Society

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Under communism, the symbolic potential of the body was multiplied in the mass gymnastic displays in order to portray the society as disciplined, strong, happy and beautiful and thus to legitimize its leadership. These gymnastic rituals followed the volkisch tradition of 19th-century mass gymnastics, which aimed at mobilization and homogenization of the `imagined community' of the nation. Behind the symbolic play of the mass gymnastics, there was, as Kracauer pointed out, a deeper relationship between modernity with its mode of production and gymnastics with its mechanization of the body. The relation, however, was not a direct one, mass gymnastic displays were used to aestheticize the mass production and therefore to deny the very logic of instrumental rationality that both the gymnastics and the production were built upon.

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2003

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“…Nonetheless, subsequent publications of the second half of the 20th century covered F. Nachtegall's activities in the field of education mainly in connection with his role in the creation of Europe's first military and civilian gymnastic institute (Boigey, 1932;Kun, 1984;Ljunggren, 1996). In the 1990s Scandinavian scientists studied in more detail aspects of the integration of F. Nachtegall's gymnastics in the school curriculum, emphasizing its influence on the formation of patriotism and Danish national identity (Eichberg, 1993(Eichberg, , 1995Hoffmann, 1993;Trangbaek, 1996a). The publications drew attention to the innovative nature of F. Nachtegall's gymnastics, the humanistic orientation towards the development of the bodily and moral potential of young people (Eichberg, 1993;Møller, 1996;Naul, 1998).…”

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F. Nachtegall And Gymnastics In Denmark: Ascertainment History In The Educational System

Chukhlantseva

2023

Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

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The relevance of the study is due to the need to improve the quality of training of future physical education (PE) specialists. Knowledge of the legacy of outstanding teachers is the basis for the formation of professional competencies of PE specialists. The experience of F. Nachtegall, the Scandinavian educator of New Times, the main stages of his activity on the introduction of PE in education, their content and results became an impulse to recognize the importance of physical and moral health of young people as the main object of attention of authorities, benefactors and society during the period under study. The educational reforms initiated by him ensured the availability of PE to all young people, promoted the education of healthy, industrious, useful citizens and led to the institutionalisation of PE. Founding Europe's first gymnastics club and a private gymnastics school for different classes, organising and running a school for training civic gymnastics teachers, and founding a gymnastics college - these are just a small part of Nachtegall's multifaceted activities. Nachtegall's practical experience had an enormous influence on the creation of the organisational, programme, control and methodological foundations for the formation of didactic knowledge on the teaching process of PE.

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Gender in modern society: femininity, gymnastics and sport

Trangbæk

1997

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Danish gymnastics: what's so Danish about the danes?

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Politics of Gymnastics: Mass Gymnastic Displays Under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe

Politics of Gymnastics: Mass Gymnastic Displays Under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe

F. Nachtegall And Gymnastics In Denmark: Ascertainment History In The Educational System

Gender in modern society: femininity, gymnastics and sport

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