Physical Education A-Level
Codification and rational recreation
What Codification and rational recreation means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Developments in sport linked to empire, alongside the spread of codified games and the amateur ideal.
Topics that use Codification and rational recreation
- Industrial and post-industrial (1780–1900) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Access, patronage and participation
- Amateurism and payment
- Athleticism
- Class and racial inequality in sport access
- Codification of sport
- Governance and regulation
- Gradual and limited expansion of women's participation
- Imperial expansion and global trade
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