PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Confirmation Bias, Poverty Reduction, Neoliberalism
26 Apr 2013
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April 8 sport for development: previous reading dealt with athletes as activists, this reading shifts the focus to sport as a whole and the role it could play in achieving development goals (ex. Poverty reduction, crime prevention etc. : the article doesn"t say that sport is always bad and negative. However, we do need to recognize the concern about the idea of sport for development. Individual: help people achieve their potential, attributes like cooperation, sportsmanship, and competition are valued, based on normative ideas of personal growth and socialization (ex. Age appropriate personal growth and development of motor skills and interpersonal skills: when someone steps outside of acceptable areas, they are subject to racism. In most cases, development" is an assumed positive: but given the different meanings, without exploring the specific meaning and use, development can simply contribute to the maintenance of the status quo and miss its transformative potential.
