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The
International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport,
and Dance (ICHPER·SD) was an outgrowth of an idea first
conceived in 1950 by the Board of Directors of the American Association
for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER). Under visionary leadership of
Dr. Dorothy Ainsworth, Smith College, and Dr. Carl Troester, Jr.,
Executive Secretary of AAHPER, ICHPER was founded in Rome, Italy, in
1958, by teaching professionals and representatives from 16 countries
from the fields of health, physical education, recreation, sport, and
dance from 16 countries. The Council now boasts a membership
representing over 145 countries, and disseminates quarterly the Journal of
ICHPER·SD to all 208 countries and
self-governing territories of the world.
From
its inception, the Council has been housed in the headquarters of and
supported by AAHPER.
AAHPER
and ICHPER
have both had name changes to the American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPER),
and the International Council for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, Sport, and Dance (ICHPER·SD)
respectively. A common mission, is shared–one
national, the other international in scope.
ICHPER·SD
is a membership-based international, umbrella organization with a
membership that includes professors, teachers, researchers, coaches,
educators and administrators from the fields of HPERSD
and other related areas, as well as educational or research institutions
and departments, colleges and universities, governmental and
non-governmental national and international organizations.
ICHPER·SD has seven (7) regional organizations for mission and
program implementation–Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle
East, North America and Caribbean, and Oceania. It has two levels of
organizational structure–the Executive Committee and the Board of
Governors. It has thirty-three (33) ICHPER·SD Commissions of specialization and interest area as
well as nine (9) Standing Committees.
ICHPER·SD works closely with the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) as an IOC Recognized Organization for promotion
of the Olympic Movement through selected or grant-funded joint projects.
ICHPER·SD holds an “Official Relations” status with the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) and is a member of the Permanent Consultative Council (PPC) to
the Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport (CIGEPS),
founded in 1976 as a working unit of UNESCO.
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