This celebration focuses on ‘Educating the Body: a History of Physical Education in Canada, ’ by M. Ann Hall, Bruce Kidd and Patricia Vertinsky (University of Toronto Press 2024), the questions it raises, the problems it reveals, and the future it hopes for. It is the first scholarly history of physical education in Canada since 1971, designed to recapture and analyze the two centuries of formal instruction in physical education and related practices, in light of: changing understandings of the Canadian state, public education, health, physical activity sport and the body ; the profound effects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; the past and present experience of colonialism and the effects of the residential schools; the marginalization of physical education in many Canadian schools and universities and increasing importance of kinesiology in higher education, health and medicine.
Date
Thursday April 25, 2024
Time
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Location
Thea’s Lounge, Thea Koerner House, #310-6371 Crescent Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
