7 Chapter 1: Social Justice & Sports Feminism
Exercise One:
Drag the correct words into the correct boxes
- Sport builds – character
- Sport provides opportunities for – social mobility
- Sport encourages – teamwork and unity
- Sport reflects – values and social norms
- Sport transcends – politics
- Sport speaks – universal language
- Sport is a measure of – individual merit
Exercise Two:
Discussion! Choose one of these points and speculate on why they might be untrue for some people or from a certain perspective in the padlet below: Sports Reflect Individual Merit
Notebook Prompt
What are some other metanarratives about sport that you are familiar with? Find an image or video clip or draw something yourself that captures this idea…
So what? Why does any of this matter? Does it matter? As something we grow up with – live with – play through – we don’t often interrogate the meanings of sport, and perhaps we don’t want to.
But being aware of these assumptions and metanarratives are especially important, I would argue, because of the centrality of sport to our everyday lives, the role that sport plays in shaping our childhood and worldviews and…... [finish that thought]
