TEACHING VALUES

IN PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND
SPORTS
TRENDS AND ISSUES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS
MAPEH 403
Physical Education and Sports helps
to promote the social values among
youth. It is considered as an
essential part of Education and
Culture.
◦It build up the abilities
◦Will – Power
◦Moral values and Self – discipline of every
human being as an entirely integrated member
of society
◦It contributes to the preservation and
enhancement of mental and physical health.
◦Gives a nourishing Leisure- time activity and also
helps to an individual to overcome the
drawbacks of present stressful living.
 Promoting the social values among
youth, Physical Education and Sports play a
vital Role in promoting the social values
among them.
Physical Education is considered as a
school subject, which facilitate to prepare
the youth for a healthy lifestyle and focuses
on their overall physical and mental
development, as well as imparting important
social values among the youth such as:
Fairness
Self- discipline
Solidarity
Team Spirit
Tolerance
Fair Play
 Sports are suggested to be one of the
best vehicles for values inculcation and
personal development among
individuals.
The values learned through sports
participation are believed to be
applicable not only in sports but can be
transferred to non-sports setting as well.
VALUES
EDUCATION
THROUGH SPORT
( VETS )
PROGRAMMES
Support active
learning
Complement
cognitive skills
Give students
increasing amounts
of responsibility
Enhance their level
of concentration
and participation
Flexible and have
strong cross-
curricular potential
Help students to
transfer and put
values into action
outside the school
environment
Getting engaged in their
communities, making
informed decisions, being
sensitive and respecting
the others and the
environment.
Contributes to the
development of self-
confidence, active and
healthy lifestyle choices, and
an understanding of rights,
supporting the delicate
transition to the
independence of adulthood.
 Physical Education and Sport programmes
must by virtue of their content and their time
tables, help to create habits and behaviour
patterns beneficial to full development of the
human personality.
Physical Education should respond to the
needs of optimally developing individual’s
capabilities and provide opportunities for
personal fulfilment and social interactions
fundamental in human co-existence.
 “THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS
IN THE WORLD CANNOT BE SEEN OR EVEN
TOUCHED THEY MUST BE FELT WITH THE
HEART.”
-Helen Keller