Kinesiology, Vol. 29 No. 1, 1997.
Original scientific paper
Sport as quality of life (Case: The Young)
Mojca Doupona
; Department of Social Sciences of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Krešimir Petrovič
; Department of Social Sciences of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The issue about working with the young in sport is current from the aspect of some recent international charts, initiated mostly in the European Council and in researches and considerations which could be traced in a number of scientific and expert reviews. Humanization of the work with the young is one of the permanent social topics, irrespective of the momentary characteristics of the existent society order itself. Working with the young in sport is, for example as in the case of human rights, more often defined in words than realized in practice. That is why humanity will have to put humanism as a civilization movement continuously on the civilization daily agenda not only in theory but also in practice.
The highest axiological principle of sport should be: human popularity of its essence. This is also considered to be the highest value, because only when being in possession of this value we can practice the processes of true humanization without the fear of slipping into sports ethical utopia or vulgar market pragmatism which leads to the dehumanization of a sportsman's results and consequently to the dehumanization of his or her personality. We see the mentioned processes as the only effective means of overcoming the various -isms: biologisms, kinesiologisms, biomechanicisms, methodologisms... and others, which are scientifically correctly determined as "one- sidedness". Within the field of sport it is obviously the holistic approach that is offered to us as the only correct possibility.
Keywords
sport, the young, holistic approach
Hrčak ID:
255852
URI
Publication date:
15.4.1997.
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