Sport spirituality as an educational innovation (evidenced-based study)

Olesya Shestopalova,Vladimir Terarakelyants,Igor Biryukov,A Olshevskaya,V Kankhva,Tamara Olenich,D Rudoy

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202021017006

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021017006

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Abstract

The analysis of physical education and sport, its social influence upon the society and spiritual development of the individual, is under consideration. Sport is a specific form of activities, and it develops not only the physical condition of the individual but also it contributes to the spiritual development of the personality. The phenomenon of sport spirituality as a process of imbuing of moral and ethical values during sport performing is investigated. The research hypothesis is that during the sport performance schoolchildren can develop their spirituality and sport is can serve as a useful educational tool to develop ethical and moral values. To verify the research hypothesis, the influence of we surveyed to investigate and describe how sport spirituality arises and function in the particular surrounding. The empirical materials are dedicated to the study of the best practices of implementing spiritual development into the sports during school lessons of physical education. The results showed that sport spirituality serves as a useful educational tool to imbue schoolchildren with moral and ethical values and contribute to the spiritual development of the youth.

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Modern sport is a complex social phenomenon that performs a lot of social functions, affecting the interests of people of different age groups
Studies have shown that the very nature, mission and nature of physical culture and sports is a discursive issue: will they be the prerogative of the sphere of the game or competition, or maybe something more significant for formation and development of physically and spiritually developed personality [1,2,3,4]
It is necessary to conduct a holistic study of the problems of physical culture and sport, an analysis of the contradictions that have developed and operate in Russian society between the processes of bodily-physical development, on the one hand, and insufficient definition and understanding of the role of the spiritual components of the characteristics of

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Modern sport is a complex social phenomenon that performs a lot of social functions, affecting the interests of people of different age groups. Studies showed that in the development of areas of physical culture and sports in modern social sciences we can trace an internal contradiction and paradox, since with the growing need of society in this sphere of life, its understanding and philosophical and conceptual development is behind the growing social demand. The religious and mythological area of public life was close to the sport. The world arrival of national-tribal and religious-mythological variations of sports arose in the context of local, customary customs and traditions

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