When the Game Stood Tall: Using Sports Scholarship to Understand Cultural Change and Promote Social Justice

dc.contributor.author	Kelly, Teresa Marie
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-03T16:39:34Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-03T16:39:34Z
dc.date.issued	2020-11-12
dc.description.abstract	Educating students for the future requires preparing them to engage with cultural changes and social justice. Sports functions as a microcosm for society, meaning sports scholarship encourages deeper understanding of cultural change and social justice (Rodesiler and Premont, 2018). Scholarly examination allows sports to become a vehicle through which students can explore, analyze, and participate in a changing world (Rodesiler, 2019). Because students often use sports to address their need for heroes (Gahan, 2014), watching sports figures address inequities and other contemporary issues also encourages students to move beyond interest and towards action (Rodesiler, 2017). Between the NBA’s dramatic role in the American Covid-19 shutdown to the emergence of NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace as a voice for social justice, contemporary sports through its absence or its influence stands at the center of 2020’a seismic changes and provides a vehicle for preparing students for future cultural change and social justice movements.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12264/328
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.title	When the Game Stood Tall: Using Sports Scholarship to Understand Cultural Change and Promote Social Justice	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US

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