Thursday, May 28, 2009

Sport, Physical Education and Recreation in La Cultura Argentina.

It seems somewhat questionable that the sports, recreational and physical education, positive values to make people's lives. So it may be a truism to say that sport, recreation and physical education are part of inescindible culture, in this case the culture of Argentina. Indeed, one could say that these issues are almost out of discussion and even debate. It appears that beyond the exceptions to the rule, we do much sport, recreation and much much physical education, not get down to meditate much on the motivation and meaning as personalizantes activities.

The rapidly increasing emergence of knowledge technologies and information, allowing to realize that the academic and research activities on these issues is increasing in many parts of the planet, and that is perceived as emerging in Argentina beginning to appear evidence of that concern. But as you know, pay attention to the lessons that give us such disciplines as Social and Cultural Anthropology, the innovations are not accepted automatically, and massively, in the creep life or the "cultural continuun" of countries, regions or cities. If we want to approach this problem in sport, physical education and recreation in Argentina, we must be assuming certain situations. One is that we should consider the complexity of sports, recreational and physical education, as something composed at least conceptually. This is an important point, as it often detect differentiated treatment concept, which translate into distinct tasks.

Something similar seems when it comes to the point of this complex with inescindibilidad culture argentina. It seems that in some cases there is a divorce between sport, recreation and physical education, with the other cultural activities argentina. This "divorce" in the light of crisis and shortage of resources, could be classified, at least as samples of inefficiency and inequity. If this trial is a negative value, thus we can argue the need for a comprehensive approach to the dimension of sport, recreation and physical education in the Argentine cultural evolution. But to avoid confusion, we use the term approach, which involves a single treatment academic or intellectual application of the term, which could lead to understand that we postulate a homogenizing treatment, which considering the diversity characteristic of Argentina, to consider totalitarian or collectivist bias, Another aspect that we are interested to note that much more important that public policies to be applied for the promotion and encouragement of the activities mentioned above, are the specific activities of people, who are the last that will inform this aspect of culture. This assertion is an implicit relativization of public policy in making its impact on the activities that we are commenting.

From the above, we believe (rebuttable or any opinion), seems more feasible to influence the activities in question, since the specific circumstances of time and place, where we are. This means that the entities of the public good first degree, particularly our beloved sport and social clubs, and educational institutions, particularly establishments of general education and multi Basic, subsidiary and with the assistance of the municipality, can deploy a specific task that meets the needs of the largest possible number of stakeholders and beneficiaries. This implies that decentralization or devolution, the operational mode is suggested. This operational decentralization or devolution does not necessarily imply that there may be certain activities or unit design criterion. We have seen in recent years, the existence of criteria of policies for the sector or zone under consideration, too influenced by criteria wedged in previous stages. This should not surprise us, considering the sedimentation that occurs in the development of any culture. What happens is that one ingredient or practices are incorporated into the life and influence are the policy criteria, which can reveal mismatches. In other words, it is common to hear and read views on sports policy. And this is linked to the work of public authorities on the subject. But in Argentina, from December 1983, the reigning Republican and representative system, with autonomous federal (provincial), municipal and university.

This implies that the current sports policy would be the result of the work of the National government, the work of the 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, the work of the approximately 1700 towns and work, specific means of some 37 national universities. No need to comment that the specific activities of the different structures of the National Executive, and at least weak evidence coordination, one can infer that when we talk about sports policy, is not actually refer to this resulting cross. Subject to imagine how complex it is to achieve some sort of coordination between institutions, even so, the action on the daily life of leisure. sports and physical education of the population, or specific cultural dimension, is relatively low. This picture, in a context of growing escaseses and shortcomings, rather than discouraged, should be given positive values InSite, a stimulating invitation to not formalizing criteria of sectoral public policies, but of philosophy and methodology in the field of sports, physical education and recreation, to inform both the public and official activities. In other words, it would be on the side of the standard criteria and not by the laws or authorities only to be a rationalization that would ultimately be directed to more people for greater amount of time, can benefit from sports, sports and physical education. I think it would make a substantive contribution to the gap since 1967 was created by the existence of separate government structures (especially at the provincial level) on one side of sports and physical education on the other. It makes us that much can be done about it, the Federal Council on Culture and Education. Linking sports club, school and town, we are going high-value, in order to optimize scarce resources. It is known to exist methodologies that show was conceived in times of abundance. Thus the expenditure transfers and stays, which benefit businesses in tourism, transport, hotels and restaurants, diverting resources that could be applied to items and sportswear.

The sporting phenomenon in late 1999, allows the sponsorship and marketing, can do both high performance sports such as professional sport. This would suggest a release of resources to be applied in a creative way on the most vulnerable sectors of the population. Those who want to play sports, do not do or can do so precariously. Consider that there are approximately eleven million people in school and through the Educational Partnership Program, may receive funding for sports, recreational and physical education. It is evident that how are you will not be shared by those who have been won by the "pre-existing status quo," but we consider satisfied if these considerations are of meditation, to see to what extent they are capable of or not in specific areas where we play. After all the "center of the world", this is where each and then with appropriate technologies, "homemade" and re-emphasize creative, you can make to the sport, recreation and physical education, fulfill the role social, which are credited to a high potential. Buenos Aires, Friday, 03 December 1999

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