Rational recreation
What Rational recreation means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Codified, orderly, respectable sport promoted by the middle class, which expanded through industry, commerce and the professions.
Sporting activity that churches provided to combine physical activity with moral and religious teaching.
Topics that use 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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