Moral Values
Culture
Question:
Programs
Definition: Distinction between right and wrong.
According to the Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, "Outcomes of positive affect were seen as the single most important outcome for athletes"
What values are actually learned through sport?
Bill Walton - “The skills he taught us on the court – teamwork, personal excellence, discipline, dedication, focus, organization, and leadership – are the same tools that you use in the real world. Coach showed us how these skills are transferable. He wasn’t just teaching us about basketball, he was teaching us about life,” (Wooden & Jamison, 1997, p. vii).
Positive Coaching Alliance
ROOTS: Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates, Self
Josephson Institute Center for Sports Ethics
TEAM: Teach, Enforce, Advocate, Model
Social Values
Definition: The values and principles taught by the coach or program. What does the coach feel is important to teach?
Higher Stakes
Negative Values
Personal development
- Responsibility
- Accountability
- Perseverance
Coaches must provide the opportunities for lessons to be taught.
- Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) (Better Athletes. Better People.)
- Josephson Institute Center for Sports Ethics
'Teaching kids to cheat and cut corners "
. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of the boys and girls participating in sports cheated on an exam in the past year. Even though those same athletes admit that their coaches promote “doing the right thing” or that their coach “wants them to do the ethically right thing, no matter what the cost”. This presents the contradictions between actions and words.
-Geer, 2007
-Geer, 2007
Female High School athletes are less likely to be sexually active, use drug or suffer from depression.
- Coaches in today's society must understand the impact they have on the lives of their athletes beyond the win and loss columns.
- Everything that is done within a coaches program is in some way teaching either a positive or negative value to the athlete.
- Sport itself does not teach these lessons but rather, it provides coaches the opportunities for teachable moments.
Hazing
6 million students in the United States were subject to hazing in the past four years.
Some Final Statistics
Values/Morals Taught Through Sport
- Gender Differences
- Trash Talking
- Coach Ejections
- Playing for fun
- Negative Lessons
Patrick Bastien
Brittney Harvey
Andrew Dodge