How to Develop Moral Skills in Sport by Using the Corruption Heritage?

Pompiliu-Nicolae Constantin,Florin Pelin,Pim Vershuuren,Marius Stoicescu,Monica Stanescu,Kornelia Naidenova,Rares Stanescu,Vania Yordanova,Carole Gomez,Vassilis Barkoukis

doi:10.3390/su14010400

Abstract

This paper examines how the corruption heritage of South-Eastern European sport can be used as content for educational strategies designed to improve the ethics and integrity in today’s sport. Hidden or dark history is useful when considering an education for a sustainable development approach to improving athletes’ moral skills. In education, examining mistakes can be a useful tool for preventing their recurrence as they provide examples for study and content for evidence-based learning. At the same time, it is a useful process, aiming to develop critical thinking and the decision-making skills in the area of sports. This paper provides examples on how narratives can be used in the field of sport moral education and what patterns reflecting the lack of integrity in sport can be identified. Because it has perpetuated and altered the image and principles of sports competition, diminishing trust in sport sustainability, it is important to identify how this effect can be approached from the perspective of the education for sustainable development (ESD), as applied to the area of sports. However, it is essential that sports integrity be valued by society and that all sports actors (athletes, coaches, officials) promote ethics and fair play.

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Introduction iationsSport has been among the most popular human activities since ancient times
This paper offers a model for the systematisation of the information that can make up the content of moral education, providing several arguments that support this status
In the third phase of the thematic analysis, after examining over 40 examples included in the negative heritage of sport in the aforementioned countries, we identified certain patterns that could be found in other states with a similar evolution from a socio-political point of view

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Introduction

Sport has been among the most popular human activities since ancient times It involves hard work, engagement, loyalty, respect for others, fair competition, friendship, and communication and is based on human and social values, ethics, and integrity, which establish it as a valued human moral practice [1]. Engagement, loyalty, respect for others, fair competition, friendship, and communication and is based on human and social values, ethics, and integrity, which establish it as a valued human moral practice [1] All these traits have turned sport into a universal and global phenomenon that, at the elite level, attracts considerable support from industry. There are three important dimensions of sport that explain its expansion: the societal role, the economic dimension, and the organisational framework. A researcher [3] wonders whether sport is sustainable, given that it faces numerous integrity issues

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