SPORT:

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION

AND SOCIETY

- Presentation by

Mona Shipley Head Sport in Education

British Council, India

British Council – The purpose of the British Council is to create

international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and build trust between them worldwide.

– To deliver the best in cultural relations we focus our programmes in the following areas:

– Education and Society

– English

– Arts

What Makes Sport and

Physical Education Work?

• IT IS ENGAGING

• EFFECTIVE

• ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT

• SIMPLICITY

• PARTNERSHIP & LEARNING

• LIFE TRANSFORMING

Sports and Gender: What

Men Have To Do With It?

“How gender be integrated in the sports program at regional, national and international level to enhance

women and girls participation”.

Prevailing State of Affairs

•Sport is an integral part of the culture of almost every nation. However, it is

traditionally associated with “masculinity

• Women frequently segregated involuntarily in different types of sports, events

and competitions

• Women’s access to positions of leadership and decision-making is

constrained from the local level to the international level.

•The value placed on women’s sport is often lower, resulting in inadequate

resources and unequal wages and prizes.

•In the media, women’s sport is not only marginalized but also often presented in

a different style that reflects and reinforces gender stereotypes

Need to Challenge Gender

Discrimination

•advocacy

•empowerment through Role Models

•improving women’s Capabilities, through

education and health;

•increasing their access to and control over opportunities and resources, such as employment and economic assets;

•enhancing their agency and leadership roles;

•protecting and promoting their human rights;

•ensuring their security, including freedom from violence.

The role of men and boys in challenging and changing

unequal power relations is critical.

Sport provides life skills essential for a productive life in

society. Often limited for women, making their access to

sport of critical importance.

Sport and physical education are an essential element of

quality education.

Increasing access for women and girls to physical

education and sport helps build confidence, promotes

stronger social integration.

Involving girls in sport activities alongside boys can help

overcome prejudice that often contributes to social

vulnerability of women and girls.

Initiatives

Growing understanding that access to and participation in sport

and physical education is not only a right in itself, but can also be

used to promote a number of important development goals – MDG’s

1. UNESCO International Charter of Physical Education and Sport, states: “The

practice of physical education and sport is a fundamental right for all.”

2. The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, provides important policy recommendations on women, gender equality and sport.

3. The current Charter of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) states that one of the roles of the Committee is to “encourage and support the promotion of women in sport at all levels and in all structures with a view to implementing the principle of equality of men and women.”

4. The International Working Group on Women and Sport, an independent coordinating body of government organizations, established in 1994 at the First World Conference on Women and Sport, held in Brighton, United Kingdom, organized by the British Sports Council and supported by the International Olympic Committee aims to be a catalyst for the advancement and empowerment of women and sport globally.

INTERNATIONAL INSPIRATION

Developing an effective systemic PE Strategy for delivering

high quality PE and School Sport for better social and

academic outcomes.

Outcome of a collaboration between British Council and

the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS), Government

of India and their key institutions (CBSE, NCERT, NCTE,

select SCERTs, LNUPE, and NIS) and also with UK

Sports, Youth Sports Trust (UK) and UNICEF.

• International Inspiration - working

in partnership with Governments

Sport

Education,

community &

sport

Education PE, sport &

Leadership

PEC-India Strategy Process: Systemic, Scalable, Sustainable

Demonstration of the use of TOPS Cards in selected Indian schools and key policy makers

This exercise convinced the Indian school system stakeholders of the usefulness of this strategy who asked for an adapted version

To begin with a well planned process was initiated to adapt TOPS Cards and develop a Teachers’ Manual for primary stage.

The uniqueness of the process of development of the Cards was their simultaneous tryout gong on in selected number of different types of schools of the country.

At the final stage the Cards were christened as PHYSICAL EDUCATION CARDS (PEC).

Not only the nomenclature is changed, but these Cards have a different format in view of the needs and requirements of Indian school situation. These have the following notable features:

Features of PEC

The strategy is based on the premise that every child matters and that

games and sports can develop skills, like observation skills, analytical

skills, evaluation skills, leadership and teamwork skills, communication

skills, emotional and intrapersonal intelligence and motor skills, that are

relevant in other areas of the curriculum and for holistic development.

It is focused on building personal attributes that are important for

holistic development of young people, like confidence,self-esteem,

ambition, high aspiration, good behaviour, understanding and respect

for rules, health and well being, good relationships with others,

appreciation of ethics and fair play, ability to cope with winning and

loosing experiences.

Each Card is formatted to provide the essential information needed for

engaging all students of a class in the selected game/activity, the ability

to be focused, the process of organizing activities, equipment needed,

safety measures to be taken and the skills to be developed.

The Card also identifies link of the activity with existing curriculum, the

links with other school subjects and the process of self assessment.

The Cards are so organized that they provide vertical continuity and

horizontal comprehensiveness to the coverage of entire curriculum of

physical education meant for a particular stage.

For the first time, in the form of these Cards the teachers as well as

students will have a material that can be very conveniently handled and

used for a longer time.

The layout and the format of the Cards make these a more attractive

material which the teachers and students enjoy using.

The pictorial depiction of each set of activities and the process to be

observed on each Card will facilitate the organization of the activities by

following the required method in a much better way.

The Cards will not only facilitate the organization of activities but also

make it more convenient for the teacher as well as students to

comprehend the concerned vocabulary as well as pedagogical tools.

Physical Education and Sports

in Schools

Efforts to integrate gender in various sports programmes, perhaps the most valued approach has been the promotion of physical education in schools.

If physical education is transacted effectively in schools the entire gender concerns would be taken care of. Physical education in schools itself should be free from gender bias.

In many countries physical education and sports has been an integral part of the school curriculum and still no treated at par with other subjects and in substantial majority of schools it is not even transacted as other core subjects.

The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005, the Curricular Policy Document for the entire country states categorically, “The importance of this subject to overall development needs to be reinforced at the policy level, with participation by administrators, other subject teachers in schools, the health department, parents and children.

Recognising this subject as a core subject Health and Physical Education must continue to be a compulsory subject from the primary to the secondary stages and as an optional subject at higher secondary stage.”

PEC-India Strategy: Inclusive

Approach for Gender

Concerns

Is an inclusive method which takes care of gender concerns spontaneously.

If adopted and operationalised through out the school system, the question of

integrating gender in sports will not be a matter of concern.

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