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introduction to the history of adopted physiological education
From the school year 1929-1930, the correction gymnastic was taught as a compulsory
subject then later in 1954, training on adopted physical education has started according
to the initiation of Dr. Mihály Nemessuri with four semesters at the Kinetic and Adopted
Physical Education Department.
(10. picture) This training was the guarantee that adopted physical education would
have to be taught by special teachers who are prepared for the differentiated task properly
and who would be able to supply the children left to their care successfully.
Conclusion
The medical science and sport historic researches revealed that body culture
developed from the hunting of animals in the late prehistoric age and in the same time,
the development of the curing gymnastics, which was the predecessor of adopted physical
education, were characterized by accidental discoveries.
The form of exercises, which had curative effects on the body and its development,
grew at the educated people in the antiquity.
The history noted more people who dealt with the curative effect of the exercises.
The Greek Herodicos is held the father of therapeutic gymnastics. The Roman Galenus
Claudius, the famous doctor of the gladiator school, was ahead of his time when he dealt
with therapeutic gymnastics and curing massage.
The development stopped in the middle ages. Later in the 19 th century, big changes
happened in this field. The work of doctors and other specialists made it possible that the
curing exercises and curing gymnastics could spread in Europe and in Hungary.
The Swedish Henrik Ling put the exercises on a scientific basis and harmonised it
with the individual’s life functions as a directed gymnastics. In Hungary, orthopaedic
professors helped and supported the spread of the curing gymnastics.
The specialists recognised the usability of school frameworks in the beginning of the
1900s and therefore the education of therapeutic exercises at school started first in the
capital city in 1915 and then it functioned as an adopted physical education further.
Since 1954, the Hungarian Royal University of Physical Education has started the training
of adopted physical education teachers. Since then, this training has been uninterrupted
both at teacher field of study and school- and kindergarten educators’ professional training.
Without intending to be exhaustive, this study wanted to examine the historical
development of this special field and also present some important literature.
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