- Title
- Introduction : Ethics in youth sport : Policy and pedagogical applications
- Creator
- Light, Richard; Harvey, Stephen
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100619
- Identifier
- vital:10572
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b1762961
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415679039 (ISBN); 9780203806920 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- Sport as we know it today finds its origins in nineteenth-century schools of the middle classes of England, where it was explicitly articulated as a medium for the socio-moral development of the future leaders of society (Mangan 1982). Despite massive social and economic changes since then, the idea of using sport as a means of developing 'character' and other positive social learning, such as learning to work in a team, has formed an enduring justification for the provision of sport for young people in schools and in sports clubs, in both western and non-western settings (see, for example, Sherington 1983; Light 2000). Despite a more recent and popular view of sport as a useful means of combating lifestyle diseases such as obesity (see, for example, Gard and Wright 2009), and growing awareness of how children's and youth sport can be corrupted by the influence of elite-level professional sport, assumptions about positive socio-moral learning occuring for young people through playing sport have proven to be remarkable resilient (see, for example, Holt 2009).
- Publisher
- Routledge, imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business
- Relation
- Ethics in youth sport : Policy and pedagogical applications Introduction p. 1-8
- Rights
- Copyright © 2013 for selection and editorial material Stephen Harvey and Richard L. Light; individual chapters, the contributors. (The right of Stephen Harvey and Richard L. Light to be indentified as the authors of the editorial material, and the chapter authors for their individual contributions, has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.)
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Ethics; Ethical codes; Effective policy; Youth development; Youth sport
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