El Proyecto Esfuerzo: un modelo para el desarrollo de la responsabilidad personal y social a través del deporte

Authors

Luis Miguel RuizSalto de línea Pedro RodríguezSalto de línea Universidad de Castilla La Mancha-Toledo.Salto de línea Salto de línea Thomas MartinekSalto de línea Tammy SchillingSalto de línea Universidad de Carolina del Norte-Greensoboro.Salto de línea Salto de línea Luis Javier DuránSalto de línea Pedro JiménezSalto de línea Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Abstract

Project Effort. A model for the Development of Social and Personal Responsibility through SportSalto de línea Salto de línea The many transformations which Spanish Education is currently undergoing are given rise to the imperious necessity to think over regular customs and uses of the different pedagogical activities. In the case of the subject of Physical Education, its several possibilities have been the reason for carrying out various studies. Some of them agree in the fact that the suitable context for the successful implementation of these activities is essential for the necessary development of values and social attitudes, being the latter necessary for an adequate personal development. This is the case of the so-called Project Effort, which was started more than ten years ago by Professor Tom Martinek in Greensboro (North Caroline) from Don Hellison’s assumptions on personal and social responsibility. This article deals with an analysis of such project –aims and purposes– with the sole intention of making those readers interested in it feel attracted to all the information provided in its last section. We are convinced that works like the one carried out by Professor Martinek and his colleagues will have a considerable influence in our education system, which is nowadays undergoing one of its major social and cultural changes, and in which terms such as social and personal responsibility are becoming a reason for worry and interest.

Keywords

Responsibility, Project Effort, mentors, leadership, values, attitudes, sport and Physical Education.