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    Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer in the 18th century who established the first school, called Philanthropinum, to offer physical education as part of the curriculum. He was the first to recognize the importance of exercise and required a specific uniform for students to allow unrestricted movement. Basedow also offered a summer camp for children and advocated for a pragmatic approach to teaching that incorporated physical activities into a well-rounded education.

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    Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer in the 18th century who established the first school, called Philanthropinum, to offer physical education as part of the curriculum. He was the first to recognize the importance of exercise and required a specific uniform for students to allow unrestricted movement. Basedow also offered a summer camp for children and advocated for a pragmatic approach to teaching that incorporated physical activities into a well-rounded education.

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    Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer in the 18th century who established the first school, called Philanthropinum, to offer physical education as part of the curriculum. He was the first to recognize the importance of exercise and required a specific uniform for students to allow unrestricted movement. Basedow also offered a summer camp for children and advocated for a pragmatic approach to teaching that incorporated physical activities into a well-rounded education.

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    Basedow conducted the first He the First who recognize the

    gymnastics as part of the school importance of exercise .


    work in Europe. He was the first ∗Required a specific uniform for his
    modern writer and teacher of students to allow unrestricted
    organized gymnastics of whom movement .
    there are records. He regarded ∗Offered a camp for 2 months
    directed physical activities as a during the summer for the children .
    means to a complete edu- cation ∗Was known as a difficult man to
    embracing both body and mind. work .

    Contribution of Basedow
    in Basedow,Established a school
    called Philanthropinum, the
    Physical Education. first school in modern Europe
    that offered a program where
    Basedow believed in state rather physical education was a part
    Johann Bernhard Basedow than religious control of education of the curriculum.
    (1723-1790)
    and in a pragmatic approach to
    teaching. He stressed modern rather
    WHO IS BASEDOW than classical languages, teaching
    them through conversation and
    games. Physical education was an
    He is influential German educational
    important part of the curriculum.
    reformer who advocated the use of
    realistic teaching methods and the Further, in an age when many
    introduction of nature study, physical schools were noted for their harsh
    education, and manual training into the discipline, Basedow held that school
    schools. He also called for an end to could be so pleasant and absorbing
    physical punishment and to rote that punishment would be virtually
    memorization in language learning. unnecessary.

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