Rational Recreation in post industrial Britain

Learning Objectives

To learn to identify the characteristics of rational recreation

To learn to compare the characteristics of popular and rational recreation

To learn to contrast pre and post industrial social and cultural factors relating to popular and rational recreation

Starter

Compare the two pictures: What was played?Who was playing?Where they played?When they played?Why they played ?How was it played?

Characteristics of Rational Recreation

Cultural Factors that influenced

their development

Regional / national /

internationalImproved transport

Codification / administration

Business & administration skills/ ex-public

school boys

Respectable Increased free time

& improved transport

RegularIncreased free

time & improved transport

Exclusive / Elitist

Social class & gender

discrimination

Urban / Suburban

The ‘Revolutions’

Control of gambling

Increased law & order

Amateurism / professionalismClass structure /

spectatorism

Fair PlayPublic school

influence

Purpose-built facilities

Technological advancement

Presentations – Compare and Contrast

1.Characteristics of popular and rational recreation

2. Social features of pre and post industrial Britain

3. Industrial revolution – agrarian / urban revolution

Poem / rap / tasks / question and answer

The move towards rational recreation

Societal changepre industrial post industrial•Feudal (Gentlemen-Peasant) Gentlemen-Middle class workers•Feudalism Capitalism•Rural Urban•Cottage Industry Manufacturing Coal/Iron•Free Time Machine Time•Church Constraints Church Support•Horse Drawn Railways•Word of Mouth Popular Press

The move towards rational recreation

Sports changepopular sport rational sport•Localised Local-Regional-National•Rural Rural-Urban•Cruel/Violent Channeled aggression•Courtly-Popular Gentry-Middle-Working•Ritual Moral•Occasional Regular•Limited Coding Formal Codification•Wagering Gambling Curtailed

Picture Board

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Plenary PlacematAt the start of the lesson I didn’t know...........The term........ Was used in todays lesson. It means ....

I have learnt today that .....

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