From the 1880s until the present schooling has institutionalised practices that centre on the social regulation and normalisation of the body. To illustrate and elaborate this argument, I will seek to show how the regulation of the body in space and in time worked in schools in the mid to late 19th century in Australia and Britain. I will next show how school physical training, sport and medical inspection were developed as a cluster of highly specialised corporeal practices during the first half of the 20th century. I will then suggest that even though there have been attempts during the 20th century to challenge schooling as an institution, the basic structure of the school as a site of corporeal regulation and normalisation has remained more or less intact to the present. Finally, I will speculate about the ways in which contemporary processes of schooling may construct embodied inter/national identities in the first decade of the 21st century.
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