Lecture 23- Character- Development in sport Flashcards
When people encourage their children to participate in sport, they assume that participation will
Automatically be positive!
When people encourage their children to participate in sport, they assum that participation will. Automatically be positive! (how much evidence supports this claim??)
Little evidence supports this claim
Positive benefits of participation in sport
-Character – moral development
- Fair play
-Sportspersonship
-Self-Discipline, autonomy
-self-concept, self esteem
etc
Character and moral development in sport
- Moral, prosocial connotations
-Socially approved personality traits - A major goal of successful socialisation
Most research on character-in-sport has focused on
Moral reasoning and sportsmanship (fair play)
Does sport develop moral reasoning
In general “NO”
Players are assigned limited … for their moral actions in sport.
responsibility
who are the moral decisions (e.g foul play) placed in the hands of
Officials, umpired and referees
What are expamples of “socialised” neutral or negative attitude about fair play/sportsmanship
“its not cheating unless you get cuaght”
“You play to the referee not the rules”
Game reasoning
sport=play=fantasy=not real
(moral disengagement)
Self selection
People with certain “traits” may be attracted to sport; and the sport process tends to “eliminate” those who dont have the traits
Many participants in sport ….. what many people call good character ……..
already possessed
before they began
Consequently sport may be more accuratley described as a situation in which character may be…… rather than …….
displayed rather than developed
Over generalisation
we take one example and we generalise it
-Sports tend to focus their attention on the most outstanding people in their programmes/schools/clubs
-People assume that not only did sport build the character of these outstanding people, but that
EVERY PARTICIPANT benefits as well
