Sports pedagogy and the socio-educational reference: Dialogues between theory and practice

Abstract

Sports practice’s pedagogical character has been often studied in Sports Pedagogy, where socio-educational content began to receive more attention. In order to contribute to approximate theory and practice, this study investigated how teachers in sports-based social projects develop their socio-educational content. Two projects served as sources to answer that question. This is a cross-sectional, qualitative field study employing document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and non-participant observation. The results pointed at dialogue as teachers’ most common method for working on socio-educational contents, while sports activities were not intentionally used. Therefore, applied studies are suggested for increasing and improving approximation between theory and practice in socio-educational contents.