The Development of Organization of Sport and Physical Therapy Studies in the Context of Political and Legislative Changes
Abstract
The beginnings of higher education of physical education specialists, can be found in the year 1892, when the first training course for teachers at secondary schools was launched. A significant part of the course was devoted to teaching the importance of health and physical exercises.
However, a full training of physical education specialists was possible only after the Institute of Physical Education and Sport was established in 1953. In the year 1959, the Institute of Physical Education and Sport has become one of the faculties of Charles University and since 1965 bears the name the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport.
In 1982, the study of Physical Therapy was opened, at that time it was called rehabilitation. After the year 1989, the Czech higher education system underwent important changes caused mainly by the Higher Education Act of 1990 and of 1998, which both had an impact on the form of educational process at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at Charles University in Prague.