A Study on the Concept of Educational Environment in Sport

― A Focus on the Shift of Educational Paradigm of Sport and Affordance ―

Abstract

This study considered the concept of educational environments—both social and material—in sport. It addresses some environmental issues of sport and examines the conditions necessary for solving those issues. In the social aspects discussed, a child’s participation in sport is considered as a lesson under adult control. However, as a discipline, there has been little discussion of a sport’s material aspect in physical education. The “paradigm change” in school education lies in the background of this issue, that is, as a new perspective for the child as a learning existence in the social view of education. This argument of sport environment, based on the paradigm change in sports education, reflects the overall tendency of education. Therefore, there is a greater need for a material environment providing learning opportunities for children. Such a discussion on the educational environment in sports is extremely difficult when using a single approach—the physical education perspective; therefore, it is necessary to use various approaches from the field of research.