SPORTIKUS is an acronym developed by an expert group of the
It is designed to serve as a didactical tool for education through sport:
- to address social responsibility in sport
- to promote moral values of sport
- to call upon common human characteristics
- to advise on acceptable behaviour
- to raise awareness on socio-ecological issues
- to attract children and youth to be physically active
- to bind sport workers to common ethical standards
- to assure the quality work with children and youth
Background:
Agenda 21 and United Nations MDGs (among others) are common humanity declarations that need to be adapted to our every day life by each individual. Sport, as a physical activity, and as play and game is common human activity as well and very attractive to children and youth especially. Sport embodies a value system, and as such sport can be regarded as a symbol of life in general; a school of and for life. The structure of the game (rules, roles, values, goals, meanings etc.) gives us the opportunity to address very serious and very real problems of social and environmental nature in a convenient context, and through the attractive sport and sport related activities.
The main ideological concern is to create awareness that many sport activities can contribute a lot to the idea of sustainable development. The core idea of Sportikus is to promote physical activity in a socially responsible manner, and to support the development of PE and sport where there value is underestimated. In fact, the goal is to recognize our mutual dependency, our environmental responsibilities and our own social reproduction or re-creation through sport. Therefore the reflection on sport is needed, and the phenomenons in sport are to be translated and compared to real world situations.
