Rethinking College Athletics

Author : Judith Andre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877227168
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking College Athletics written by Judith Andre and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College sport is a major part of our cultural landscape, but it is perennially troubled with rule violations, academic failure, and exploitation. As recent moral philosophy has turned to practical issues, it has somehow overlooked the problems in its own back yard. This collection of essays enables us to step back from the sports page for both a broader view and a deeper look at college athletics. The editors, who are themselves moral philosophers, have brought together many perspectives--phenomenology, game theory, aesthetics, cognitive science, as well as history, anthropology, economics, and sports medicine. The essays illuminate the values of sport and their corrosion within the university's commercial environment. Does sport belong in college at all? If so, how can institutions preserve the real values of athletics while honoring those of the university? The book's contributors--philosophers, social scientists, and physical educators--examine the current status of sport in Western society: the reason for its importance, the kind of pleasure derived by both participants and spectators, problems faced by athletes, and the effects on the larger society of troubles within the world of sport. Comparing university sport programs in the United States with those in other countries and examining problems that start with recruiting high school athletes, the authors ask whether present practices are justified. Determining the values that are intrinsic to sport, they explore how these values fit with the essential goals of universities. And they look at the peculiar features of revenue-producing sports and ask whether these change the nature of sport. Author note: Judith Andre is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. David N. James is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University.

Author : Judith Andre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566390026
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking College Athletics written by Judith Andre and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College sport is a major part of our cultural landscape, but it is perennially troubled with rule violations, academic failure, and exploitation. As recent moral philosophy has turned to practical issues, it has somehow overlooked the problems in its own back yard. This collection of essays enables us to step back from the sports page for both a broader view and a deeper look at college athletics. The editors, who are themselves moral philosophers, have brought together many perspectives--phenomenology, game theory, aesthetics, cognitive science, as well as history, anthropology, economics, and sports medicine. The essays illuminate the values of sport and their corrosion within the university's commercial environment. Does sport belong in college at all? If so, how can institutions preserve the real values of athletics while honoring those of the university? The book's contributors--philosophers, social scientists, and physical educators--examine the current status of sport in Western society: the reason for its importance, the kind of pleasure derived by both participants and spectators, problems faced by athletes, and the effects on the larger society of troubles within the world of sport. Comparing university sport programs in the United States with those in other countries and examining problems that start with recruiting high school athletes, the authors ask whether present practices are justified. Determining the values that are intrinsic to sport, they explore how these values fit with the essential goals of universities. And they look at the peculiar features of revenue-producing sports and ask whether these change the nature of sport. Author note: Judith Andre is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. David N. James is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University.

Author : William John Morgan
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736064286
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Sport written by William John Morgan and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2007 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a text for students in sport philosophy, sport ethics, sport management and sport studies courses, as well as a reference for professionals with an interest in sport ethics. World-renowned experts examine the moral and ethical issues surrounding sport in contemporary society, addressing current debates.

Author : Eddie Comeaux
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423855
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Athletes’ Rights and Well-Being written by Eddie Comeaux and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "College Athletes' Rights and Well-Being covers major policy issues in collegiate sports and seeks to address the issue of college athletics from the perspective of the athlete's well-being. It is written for those who seek to enhance their understanding of the intercollegiate athletics landscape. This textbook is intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, though scholars, teachers, practitioners, athletic administrators, and advocates of intercollegiate athletics will also find it essential. The book is arranged into 16 individual chapters that cover a range of topics on college athletes' rights and well-being. It is not exhaustive, but the editor believes that current concerns, challenges, and themes of relevance to higher education researchers and practitioners will certainly be well addressed" -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Scott Rosner
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763726218
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Sports written by Scott Rosner and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers professional, Olympic and collegiate sports and each chapter has a fully developed introduction to explaine the relevance of the articles to be presented.

Author : James L. Shulman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691096198
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Life written by James L. Shulman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission? James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River, the authors analyze data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large. Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges. Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.

Author : Arthur Shriberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Services for College Athletes written by Arthur Shriberg and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855047
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games Colleges Play written by John R. Thelin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-11-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of college athletics and examines the position of sports relative to academics within the university.

Author : John R. Gerdy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604730749
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Ball written by John R. Gerdy and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John R. Gerdy has seen nearly every side of athletics. He is the son of a high school football coach; he was an All-American and professional basketball player and a legislative assistant for the National Collegiate Athletic Association; and he served as an associate commissioner for the Southeastern Conference. In Air Ball: American Education's Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics, Gerdy brings all of those perspectives to argue that the American system of school and community athletics is broken. But he is no mere naysayer. He offers a bold, progressive blueprint for reforming athletics to meet our country's educational and public health needs. Given higher education's historic role of providing leadership in our society, the initiative to restore a more sensible balance between athletics and education must begin with the reform of big-time college athletics. Despite widespread public skepticism regarding higher education's ability to change the system, Gerdy argues that the opportunity for reform has never been better. Using a provocative mix of research and thoughtful observation, he argues that, for the first time in the history of American higher education, the critical mass of people, organizations, and outside pressures necessary to drive and sustain progressive, systemic reform of the college athletic enterprise are in place.

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512733
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and College Sports written by Peter A. French and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and College Sports is a careful analysis of the root problems in intercollegiate athletics in American universities. It examines the prevalent myths that are regularly used to justify the inclusion of intercollegiate athletics, and all of the abuses and scandals it has brought to university campuses, from a moral perspective. In this book, the myths that amateurism is morally desirable, that sports brings good moral character, and that the elite sports programs raise significant sums of money to support university budgets are dissected. The actual impact of the movement to provide gender equity in athletics programs on campus is discussed and a defensible justification for intercollegiate athletics is offered.