SCHOOL SPORT AND TEACHING VALUES: SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

School sport programs frequently aim to teach values. This goal is conditioned by several educative approaches linked to the socio-cultural origin of the organizational school sport model and to the pedagogic intervention implemented. The main goal of this article is to understand the impact of such approaches in teaching values through school sport and to understand the pedagogical elements needed to teach values. Our stance is supported by a synthesis of studies developed in the area of school sport and teaching values with an important representation of international references. As we consider the school sport to be between the educational and sport systems, we firstly present the teaching values approaches from this two perspectives, including the cultural influences coming from the physical education and the Olympic movement, respectively. Afterwards, we analyze the sport idealization that believes in an educative sport per se and we show the main pedagogical contributions used by sport as a tool to teach values. Finally, we present the educative value that should remain in the school sport taking into account the socio-cultural and pedagogical aspects mentioned before.