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Bringing shared values out of the shadows

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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by Chris HickeyChris Hickey
As part of its wider promotion of a world that is peaceful and tolerant, the United Nations declared 2005 the International Year of Sport and Physical Education. At the fore of the UN's proclamation was recognition of the important role sport and PE play in nurturing the health and harmony of society. Sport and PE, the UN declared, provide important nodes for social connection around which shared values and understandings can be formed. In the wake of the UN's endorsement of the role that sport and PE can play in fostering social and emotional development, it is more important that ever that we reflect on and refine our practices towards this end. This paper draws on two research narratives to illustrate how easily this potential can be undermined. Indeed, behind some of the wonderful opportunities for connection that exist through a participation in PE and sport exists a dark shadow of alienation and oppression. The challenge raised through this paper centres on the need for PE teachers and coaches to work deliberately and strategically towards the cultivation of inclusive, tolerant and responsible forms of participation, and not leave their development to chance.

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Journal

ACHPER Australia healthy lifestyles journal

Volume

53

Issue

1

Pagination

17 - 21

Publisher

Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Location

Hindmarsh, S. Aust.

ISSN

1445-8918

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2006, ACHPER

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