K-12 School Sports Activities

Paper Summary:

This paper reports that, at a parent-teacher meeting, several issues relating to sports activities involving exclusion based on race, gender and disabilities were argued. The author points out that the perceptions of one side were that the school operates on a hierarchy of priorities, discriminating in favor of white males. The paper states that the assertion of the other group was that none of the issues apply since the only institutional goal is to prevent obesity. The author stresses that the relevant ethical principles for this situation were justice, benevolence and respect for persons. The paper highlights that the new standards such as physical activity and sports will become a self-management program in which every child should realize that the program is to be incorporated into their life plan.

Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Introduction
The Issues
Ethics and Ethical Principles
Recommendations
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"According to Foucault, ethics is best defined as "a critical self-reflective practice". Based on this, the goals are to establish the ethical principles that will allow physical activity and sport to take place with the least amount of control. If the main objective is to fight obesity, then the activity should be paramount, flexible, and requires few formal rules or structure. Once the rationale for sport is clarified, then the emphasis on competition and all the disciplinary and regulatory practices that center on the idea of winning will be eliminated."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Smith-Magire, J. (2002). Michel-Foucault: Sport, power, technologies and governmentality. Ethics and issues in physical activity and health studies. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Physical Education & Health.

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