The pedagogic reform of Thomas Arnold and the role of the Anglican Church in the creation of the first clubs of soccer in England (1863-1890)

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  • Javier Arranz Albó Universitat Ramon Llull Author

Keywords:

soccer, Thomas Arnold, Victorian Paradigm, Anglican Church, YMCA, Muscular Movement.

Abstract

The aim of this historiographical work aims to address in depth the genesis of football under the paradigm of Public Schools in England in the second half of the twentieth century. In our article, we will echo the importance of educational reform that took place in England during the reign of Victoria, known as the Victorian era. Thus the work aims from a hermeneutic perspective to inform the reader the true beginnings that led to the standardization of a set of rules that unified the various trends that developed and appeared in England and led to the first official competitions Football.
As a second objectiv and using secondary sources drawn from historical delve into the figure of the priest and educator Thomas Arnold as a precursor of sport within English public schools. The article also intend to echo the vital role played by the Anglican Church in the dissemination of football in the context of Victorian society of the nineteenth century England. In conclusion, discuss how the Church understood that playing football could be a good mechanism of evangelization of the working classes, so they were organizations like Christian Movement, Christian Muscular or the YMCA organization.

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2015-07-03

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Arranz Albó, Javier. 2015. “The Pedagogic Reform of Thomas Arnold and the Role of the Anglican Church in the Creation of the First Clubs of Soccer in England (1863-1890)”. Materiales Para la Historia del Deporte, no. 13 (July): 1-22. https://polired.upm.es/index.php/materiales_historia_deporte/article/view/4111.

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