Sports values

 UNESCO has developed many tools that define the benefits and importance of sporting values ​​in all regions of the world, believing that as a global organization in its role in caring for and developing children, she realized the importance of sport and its role by promoting values ​​within the individual. Teaching values ​​through sports is an innovative education for development, as education in the twenty-first century increasingly recognizes the role of values ​​and social skills in tackling global challenges such as "lethargy, obesity, unemployment and other negative habits."  This approach is, of course, at the heart of the fourth global goal of sustainable development on quality education, which calls for opportunities for inclusive lifelong learning and the provision of innovative and effective content, through which "dynamic" forms of value-based education can be introduced using sport in schools to support teachers in providing Curricula are active and collaborative. Hence, I found it necessary to share with you this blog that aims to answer the following questions .. How can sport be one of the important and effective channels for teaching values? What can education of values ​​do through sports? # First: - Supporting value education programs through sports, "active learning", supports cognitive skills and gives students greater responsibility, enhances their level of focus and participation to be flexible and has strong capabilities across curricula, enabling them to reinforce existing curricula and can be broadcast via Various subjects, including physical education, national and moral education, nutrition, biology and the arts. # Second: - These programs help students to transfer values ​​and implement them outside the school environment, by engaging in their societies, making informed decisions, respecting others and the environment. They will also enhance mathematical values ​​in developing self-confidence, active and healthy lifestyle options, understanding rights, and supporting accurate transition to a stage Independence in advanced ages and help them make their choices well. # Third: - Sport can teach values ​​such as justice, team building, equality, discipline, integration, perseverance and respect. Sport has the ability to provide a global framework for learning values, which makes it contribute to developing the personal skills necessary for responsible citizenship that will help build and develop societies and contribute to their progress and advancement.  From the above, it is clear to us the importance of the relationship of sport to values ​​and the importance of sport in supporting educational and educational values ​​among members of society, which leads us all to enhance the role of values ​​in societies.

Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Hussain

Secretary General of the General Authority for Sports