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Sports Crazy : How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools /
"Sports Crazy exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational and health goals. Steven J. Ov...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Interscholastic sports in context -- Understanding school sports: looking back, exploring abroad -- The problems with governance, funding, and professional coaches -- How parents, boosters, and sports fans drive the agenda -- Sports culture rules in the American high school -- The troubled relationship between interscholastic sports and academics -- Physical fitness-or not?-of the student-athlete -- Character versus bad behavior -- The corrupting influence of outside interests -- The case against tackle football -- The tail that wags the dog. | |
| 520 | |a "Sports Crazy exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational and health goals. Steven J. Overman describes how this agenda is driven largely by partisan fans and parents of athletes who exert an inordinate influence on school priorities, and he explains how and why school administrators capitulate to these demands. The author underscores the incongruity of public schools involved in an entertainment business and the effects this diversion has on academic integrity, learning, life experience, and overall educational outcomes. Overman examines out-of-control school sports within the context of a school's educational mission and curriculum, with telling reference to impacts on physical education. He explores as well the outsized place of interscholastic sports beyond the classroom and scrutinizes the distorted relationship between intramural or recreational sports and elitist, varsity athletics. Overman's chapter on tackle football explains many reasons why this sport should be eliminated from the school extracurriculum and replaced by flag or touch football. Overman presents a brief history of interscholastic sports, and he compares and contrasts the American experience of school-sponsored sport to the European model of community-based clubs. Overman recommends reforms in the context of a radical proposal to phase out interscholastic sports in favor of an intramural or club model. This approach would alleviate such problems as elitism and gender bias and reign in hypercompetitiveness while freeing schools to educate students rather than provide public entertainment."--Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a School sports. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01107817 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SPORTS & RECREATION |x Sociology of Sports. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TRAVEL |x Special Interest |x Sports. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SPORTS & RECREATION |x Reference. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SPORTS & RECREATION |x History. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SPORTS & RECREATION |x Essays. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SPORTS & RECREATION |x Business Aspects. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a GAMES |x Gambling |x Sports. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Sports scolaires |z États-Unis |x Histoire. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a School sports |z United States |x History. | |
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