After reading this chapter the student should be able to:
- Trace the history of physical education, exercise science, and sport from earliest times to the present.
- Explain the contributions of the Athenian Greeks to physical education, exercise science, and sport.
- Explain why asceticism, scholasticism, and puritanism were deterrents to the growth of physical activity.
- Identify events that served as catalysts for physical education, exercise science, and sport's growth.
- Identify some of the outstanding leaders in physical education, exercise science, and sport over the course of history and the contributions each made to the field.
- Discuss recent developments in physical education, exercise science, and sport.
- Draw implications from the discussion of history of principles that will guide the professional future of physical education, exercise science, and sport.