NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

This paper presentation session will explore the role of sport and related practices as platforms for values-based education. We invite papers which examine specific case studies, detail pedagogical approaches used in the field, and/or discuss the results of research evaluating such efforts. The session will particularly highlight the relationship between (embodied) sporting practice, social relations, pedagogical strategies, and the construction and transmission of socially desirable, ethical values. Papers which highlight the use of music as part of such efforts, and/or interrelations between these factors and aspects of music culture, will be particularly welcomed in light of the overall conference theme. The session will also discuss the utility of various critical, intellectual frameworks which may be used to locate such programs at the intersection of theory and practice, advocating a ‘critical interventionist’ approach to exploring the role that sociologically-informed, sport-based education programs can play in various social contexts.