KIN-10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Frisbee, Target Games, Ultimate (Sport)
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Pros & cons of paying college players. An integral part of societies throughout history. Studied and analyzed by scholars in many disciplines since the 1950s. 1970s national & global sport culture emerges. Derives from play impulse in human behavior. Sport provides human with their greatest opportunity to achieve human excellence. Sport is important with almost a religious significance. It is organized and dramatized in a religious way: Teaches qualities that are religious in nature (perseverance, courage, sacrifice) To understand sport, we need to look at: Can be viewed as an attitude of freedom . or a release from demands of everyday life. Does not produce products (like work), yet absorb us fully (often more so than work) All children play = their most basic form of behavior. Through play, children acquire much of their early knowledge about the physical & social world. When sport is most playful, it is most meaningful to participants.
