TY - JOUR
T1 - Character, virtue and physical education
AU - Jones, Carwyn
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - In this article I argue that until the full complexity of the psychology of moral personality, moral action, and moral learning is recognized, the prospect of physical education, and team sports in particular, being utilized for moral and social development is slim. Similarly a recognition of the multifarious, heterogeneous and context specific account of moral goodness must also be embraced. Once we move away from the dominant reductive account of moral action and moral goodness, a more realistic and appropriate account of moral pedagogy and the moral educator can emerge. The potential of physical education lessons, and the physical education teacher to contribute to the cultivation of moral characters, good habits and decent players, can then be evaluated more carefully.
AB - In this article I argue that until the full complexity of the psychology of moral personality, moral action, and moral learning is recognized, the prospect of physical education, and team sports in particular, being utilized for moral and social development is slim. Similarly a recognition of the multifarious, heterogeneous and context specific account of moral goodness must also be embraced. Once we move away from the dominant reductive account of moral action and moral goodness, a more realistic and appropriate account of moral pedagogy and the moral educator can emerge. The potential of physical education lessons, and the physical education teacher to contribute to the cultivation of moral characters, good habits and decent players, can then be evaluated more carefully.
KW - character
KW - habituation
KW - moral exemplar
KW - virtue
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84993811122&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1356336X05052893
DO - 10.1177/1356336X05052893
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84993811122
SN - 1356-336X
VL - 11
SP - 139
EP - 151
JO - European Physical Education Review
JF - European Physical Education Review
IS - 2
ER -