Gymnastics - an emerging national university discipline - Johannes Lindhard's struggle to institutionalise gymnastics as a subject at the University of Copenhagen 1909-1940

Anders Frøslev Jensen, Hans Bonde

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    Abstract

    From 1909 to 1940 the medical professor Johannes Lindhard, struggled to
    establish gymnastics as a subject at the University of Copenhagen and in doing
    so, he faced a complex situation. He had to make sure that he did not lose his
    scientific integrity; that the intellectual authority in gymnastic matters was
    transferred to the university in a way that did not undermine the political
    support that had made it possible to add gymnastics to the subjects taught there;
    and that gymnastics gained scientific authority within the university. In striving
    to meet these demands, he managed to write five textbooks and conduct
    internationally acclaimed research into exercise as well as muscular physiology.
    Due to his central position in the institutionalisation of gymnastics at the
    university, he was given the opportunity of forging the emerging national
    discipline in ways that fitted his vision of gymnastics in society. This story is
    studied as a case of disciplinary formation, and investigates the question of
    whether it supports the critical perspective of disciplines as instruments of
    illegitimate power or the conservative ‘providential’ claim that disciplinary
    science is as it ought to be.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftInternational Journal of the History of Sport
    Vol/bind28
    Udgave nummer14
    Sider (fra-til)1923-1943
    Antal sider21
    ISSN0952-3367
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2011

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    CURIS 2011 5200 103

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