The role of youth sports in character development : a systematic review
Sport is an activity that many youths partake in due to its abundant beneficial outcomes. One of these such outcomes, character development, is seen by many as perhaps the most important. However, there is a growing concern that youth sport is taken as automatically developing character. Thus, the f...
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| author | Muhammad Khair Muhammad Rizauddin |
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| description | Sport is an activity that many youths partake in due to its abundant beneficial outcomes. One of these such outcomes, character development, is seen by many as perhaps the most important. However, there is a growing concern that youth sport is taken as automatically developing character. Thus, the first purpose of this review is to highlight the key ingredients that are necessary to allow youth sport to provide a backdrop for character development to take place. Secondly, this review will seek to present frameworks that policy makers and change agents could adopt in order to structure programmes that cultivate character development. A systematic literature search was conducted on 5 electronic databases using the key phrase ‘character development through sport’. The search yielded a total of 296 articles of which 7 made the inclusion/exclusion criteria and were used for this review. The common consensus among most articles is that youth sport does provide a platform to build character. However, it should be noted that sport participation does not automatically lead to positive character traits. Hence, there is a need among policy makers and sport organizations to ensure robust and structured programmes are designed and put in place so as to allow for the development of character through youth sport participation. In a nutshell, there is a need to recognize that youth sport has the potential to foster positive character traits for our future generations and thus it is our responsibility to ensure we create positive sport experiences that allow for these desirable traits to be fostered. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/738102020-09-27T20:20:23Z The role of youth sports in character development : a systematic review Muhammad Khair Muhammad Rizauddin Koh Koon Teck National Institute of Education DRNTU::Science Sport is an activity that many youths partake in due to its abundant beneficial outcomes. One of these such outcomes, character development, is seen by many as perhaps the most important. However, there is a growing concern that youth sport is taken as automatically developing character. Thus, the first purpose of this review is to highlight the key ingredients that are necessary to allow youth sport to provide a backdrop for character development to take place. Secondly, this review will seek to present frameworks that policy makers and change agents could adopt in order to structure programmes that cultivate character development. A systematic literature search was conducted on 5 electronic databases using the key phrase ‘character development through sport’. The search yielded a total of 296 articles of which 7 made the inclusion/exclusion criteria and were used for this review. The common consensus among most articles is that youth sport does provide a platform to build character. However, it should be noted that sport participation does not automatically lead to positive character traits. Hence, there is a need among policy makers and sport organizations to ensure robust and structured programmes are designed and put in place so as to allow for the development of character through youth sport participation. In a nutshell, there is a need to recognize that youth sport has the potential to foster positive character traits for our future generations and thus it is our responsibility to ensure we create positive sport experiences that allow for these desirable traits to be fostered. Bachelor of Science (Sport Science and Management) 2018-04-13T00:50:26Z 2018-04-13T00:50:26Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73810 en 31 p. application/pdf |
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