Two typical assumption of our youth sport cultures are that sport contributes to positive youth development (PYD) and that participants learn something important not only for sport, but life in general. As our previous work with colleagues (as well as the work of other researchers) has pointed out, this learning in sport has been oftenContinue reading “Existential Learning in Sport: on Finding our Ways through Life”
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The ‘healthy minded’ and ‘sick souls’ in Sport?
I’ve recently gone back to reading William James, the American philosopher and psychologist whose classic work The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) I first encountered when exploring the spiritual dimension of running in my Master’s thesis 10 years ago. That time my interest was on considering how the sacred or transcendent dimension might manifest inContinue reading “The ‘healthy minded’ and ‘sick souls’ in Sport?”
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