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Mindfulness, sport and the body: the justification of physical education revisited
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Martin, Christopher,Ergas, Oren
- 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
- 출판년도2016
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기SPORT ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY
- 발행사항Vol.10No.2[2016]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN1751-1321
- 소개/요약This paper offers a preliminary account of the educative potential of mindfulness by revisiting the long-debated status of physical activity and sport as educationally worthwhile. We argue that previous attempts in the tradition of analytic philosophy of education to offer a justification of physical activity and sport have not been sufficiently grounded in the most distinctive feature of those activities—the body. As an alternative, we claim that the theory and practice of body-based mindfulness can explain how physical activity can satisfy the analytic philosopher of education R.S. Peters’ requirement that for an activity to be educationally worthwhile, it must possess ‘wide-ranging cognitive content’. We conclude that physical activity and sport are justifiable on Petersian grounds: physical activity can broaden understanding mostly inaccessible to the kinds of theoretical activities (science and/or philosophy) that Peters argued are exemplary. We then assess the implications for this argument in terms of how such an account can inform physical educators’ understanding of the place of physical education and sport in their teaching practice.
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