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Health And Fitness: The nationwide study of health and fitness instruction, and the resultant kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum development project of the School health and fitness Education Study, has been recognized as an outstanding curriculum project.
The United States has led the way in establishing health and fitness education as a profession in its own right. Other countries have tended to follow the traditional pattern, stressing physical fitness and personal hygiene rather than a broad approach to the health and fitness of the individual and the environment. Nevertheless, health and fitness education has made major contributions to public health and fitness—as in Canada, where most elementary and secondary schools include health and fitness as part of the curriculum.
World War II brought a renewed focus on the role of the school in promoting good health and fitness. The traditional equating of health and fitness with physical fitness, and health and fitness education with physical education, was further perpetuated during this period. During the 1960's this concept was replaced by the identification of health and fitness education as a discipline separate from physical education. The School health and fitness Education Study, initiated with private funds in 1961, had the most significant impact in establishing health and fitness education as a separate discipline.
During the 19th century, physical education developed in schools and colleges and in organizations such as the YMCA. Stress on physical fitness served to establish further the need for health and fitness education. See also GYMNASIUM; PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
In the early 20th century, voluntary health and fitness agencies impressed upon parents and educators the importance of health and fitness for the school child. A study in 1918 on the reorganization of the secondary school curriculum incorporated "health and fitness" as one of the goals of high school education.
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