The Genius in Art and in Sport: A Contribution to the Investigation of Aesthetics of Sport

Lacerda, Teresa; Mumford, Stephen

doi:10.1080/00948705.2010.9714775

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“…Perhaps as athletes grow older and gain more life experience, they begin to reflect on the question of a just world. The cruelty of competitive sports and the emphasis on "geniuses" have intensified the doubts of adolescent athletes about whether the world really is just (Lacerda and Mumford, 2010). Moreover, with increasing physiological age, athletes' performance will reach a "plateau, " which makes it difficult to achieve significant progress (Corso, 2018).…”

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Belief in a Just World and Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: The Mediating Mechanism of Meaning in Life

Tian

Cui

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Mental toughness is an essential component of adolescent athletes' athletic careers and lives. Evidence supports the positive effect of belief in a just world on individual psychological development, but the relationship between belief in a just world and mental toughness of adolescents has not been tested. In order to determine the influencing factors of mental toughness and explore effective strategies for improving adolescent athletes' mental toughness, this study introduced just world and life meaning theories to explore the relationship between belief in a just world, meaning in life (search for meaning/presence of meaning), and mental toughness. Based on the data of 1,544 adolescent athletes from Yantai and Qingdao in Shandong Province, China, we tested a parallel mediation model that considered the search for meaning and presence of meaning as mediators. The results were predicted as follows: there is a significant positive correlation between belief in a just world and mental toughness, while the relationship between belief in a just world and mental toughness was partially mediated by the search for meaning and the presence of meaning in life. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the presence of meaning played a more influential role than the search for meaning. The results suggest that belief in a just world is connected to the mental toughness of adolescent athletes via the meaning in life. Therefore, maintaining and promoting the level of belief in a just world and enhancing the sense of meaning in life may be an effective strategy to develop the mental toughness of adolescent athletes. The findings of this study can help develop the mental toughness of adolescent athletes and help them maintain a high level of subjective and objective performance under the pressure of training and competition, providing practical guidance for coaches and administrators in the training of adolescent athletes.

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Belief in a Just World and Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: The Mediating Mechanism of Meaning in Life

Tian

Cui

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…The practice of play, framed by games, is the source of the aesthetic experience: "We create, return to, adjust, watch, discuss, mythologize physical games because they appeal to us in a fully meaningful, embodied sense; because a game that revolves around putting a leather ball into a metal hoop ten feet off the ground is, when considered on aesthetic rather than mechanical or coldly informational grounds, potentially a deeply meaningful practice created by humans for humans" (Elcombe, 2012). In this view, the participation of players and audiences is essential to the aesthetics of games as practices (Lacerda & Mumford, 2010). Drawing on Kantian aesthetics (Kant et al, [1790(Kant et al, [ ](2001; Schiller & Snell, 2012;Wenzel, 2006), philosophers of sport look at the non-purposive actions in play as the primary location of aesthetic value in sport.…”

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The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules

Sicart

2023

Games and Culture

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“…This overcoming notion is not only a practical one, but it has a symbolic meaning too. When overcoming a sports challenge, individuals (more or less self-consciously) wander a path of personal growth and overcoming (Lacerda and Mumford, 2010). …”

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Ethical potentialities on physical education as a vehicle for ethical education through sports

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Lacerda

2016

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Sports occupy an interesting ethical space from a pedagogic point of view, being included in physical education curricula in most Western countries. The approach of physical education to sports as vehicle for ethical education is too limited when it is restricted to their minimal functional, constitutive and regulatory goals. This essay's aim is to argue the extent to which the ethical potential of physical education can embrace more than functional purposes, or whether that will be neglected in terms of limited educational aspirations. We present data from nineteen exploratory interviews with experienced philosophy, sports and physical education researchers and teachers, from six different nations, concerning the ethical potentiality of physical education. We highlight five ethical themes: (i) the regulatory and normative structure of sports; (ii) the spirit of sports and its internal values; (iii) the right playing/doing of sports; (iv) the overcoming in sports; and (v) sports as an opportunity for a supererogatory ethics as fertile ground for future operationalization of the potential of physical education for ethical education through sports.Keywords: sport, ethics, physical education. ResumenEl deporte ocupa un interesante espacio ético desde un punto de vista pedagógico, integrándose en los curricula de educación física en la mayoría de países occidentales. El planteamiento de la educación física como vehículo de la educación ética es limitado cuando restringido a sus objetivos mínimos funcionales, constitutivos y regulatorios. El objetivo de este estudio es discutir si el potencial ético de la educación física puede ir más allá de los propósitos funcionales, que considerados aisladamente constituyen un desperdicio de la experiencia pedagógica del deporte. Para conseguirlo, presentamos datos de diecinueve entrevistas exploratorias con experimentados investigadores y profesores de filosofía, deporte y educación física relacionadas con las potencialidades éticas de la educación física. La muestra incluye individuos de seis diferentes nacionalidades, cuyo trabajo demuestra preocupaciones con el tema. La argumentación resulta de cinco temáticas principales: (i) Estructura normativa y regulativa del deporte; (ii) El espírito del deporte y sus valores internos; (iii) El bien hacer deportivo; (iv) La superación deportiva; (v) El deporte como oportunidad de una ética supererogatoria como contexto fértil para la concretización del potencial ético de una educación deportiva.Palabras clave: deporte, ética, educación física.

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The Genius in Art and in Sport: A Contribution to the Investigation of Aesthetics of Sport

Cited by 20 publications

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Belief in a Just World and Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: The Mediating Mechanism of Meaning in Life

Belief in a Just World and Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: The Mediating Mechanism of Meaning in Life

The Beautiful Rule: Thinking the Aesthetics of Game Rules

Ethical potentialities on physical education as a vehicle for ethical education through sports

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