Module 4 - Sport, Violence, and Peace Education Flashcards
Why are forms of inequity and oppression in and around sport seem to persist and be perpetuated?
- Social Movements are only sometimes effective
- People not always well-positioned for activism
Are social movements linked to other forms of activism?
- Commonly linked with forms of peace education
What are the assumptions for peace education?
- Critically-oriented education can help understand problems
- Social movement entrepreneurs are key figures
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
Theorist Activist
- 1891-1937
- Coined the term “Hegemony”
- Explained unequal power relations
What does Hegemony mean?
- Power or dominance of one social group over others
Is the dominance in hegemony consensual? How?
Yes
- Not Coercive
- Culture used to ‘manufacture consent
- Concessions made by dominant groups
What is an example of hegemony?
- Women granted concessions in sport
- As long as traditional gender roles went undisturbed
What is Ironic Activism?
- When we try to solve a social problem but inadvertently make the problem worse or create new problems
What is peace education?
- Refers to teachers teaching about peace
What does peace education teach about?
- What peace is
- why peace does not exist
- How to achieve peace
- Development of non-violent skills
- Promoting peaceful attitudes
What is Praxis?
- Reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it
What are some peace education topics?
- Conflict Transformation
- International Education
- Environmental Education
- Media Literacy
- Human Rights Education
- Global Education
- Critical Pedagogy or Development Education
What is Critical Pedagogy?
- education that is focused on understanding how & why some groups are marginalized
What does Critical Pedagogy teach?
- How society’s institutions and our taken-for-granted belief systems may be perpetuating problems
- Empowered by awareness is to ‘act, interrupt the reproduction of the status quo’
What does Critical Pedagogy teach?
- How society’s institutions and our taken-for-granted belief systems may be perpetuating problems
- Empowered by awareness is to ‘act, interrupt the reproduction of the status quo
Who is Paulo Freire? How does he view critical pedagogy?
Figure promoting education for impoverished workers in Brazil
- Pedagogy of the oppressed
- was concerned about lack of protest/critique from most oppressed
What is critical to Freire’s argument?
Critical Consciousness
- Working towards it
Describe Wendy Frisby and ‘action’ research.
- Barriers faced by low-income women
- Lack of funding for programmes to support ‘unprofitable’ groups
What are some examples of Environment, Activism, and Peace Education?
- Al Gore - An inconvenient Sequel - Movie Trailer
- Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty
- Jane Goodall Institute
What is the Jane Goodall Institute?
- Global Community Conservation Organization
- Advances the vison and work of Dr. Jane Goodall
- Protecting Chimpanzees and inspiring people to conserve natural world
- Improve lives of people, animals, and environment
How do you connect ‘peace education’ with sport-related violence?
- Violence committed by male athletes against women
- Evidence that in certain all-male settings where a hyper-masculine form of identity is privileged
- Violence against women normalized or tolerated, or not challenged/reported
How is male athlete violence against women connected to a broader problem?
- Male violence and cultural messages about masculinity
What are the 3 points on athlete male violence?
- ‘codes of masculinity’ develop in all male settings
- Male Athletes who successfully align with ‘masculinity’ are revered
- Revered athletes develop sense of privilege
Describe the ‘codes of masculinity’ that develop in some all-male settings.
- Forms of violence/hazing unquestioned or tolerated
- close-knit subcultures uncritically follow group norms as a way of reducing conflict & promoting cohesion
