Coeducational Sport.

The article presents an encyclopedia entry for coeducational sport. The term coeducation is often used to refer to mixed classes. Coeducation in the classroom spread swiftly after World War II without causing controversy, but separate physical education (PE) classes were still taken for granted, not least because different male and female sports dominated the curricula for girls and boys. Mixed PE classes brought up fundamental questions about their purpose including what should be learned and taught in PE lessons, whether it was sufficient to teach motor skills and whether competition and striving for the improvement of performances play a central role.