スポーツの経験的価値についての検討

―プラグマティズム思想における経験概念の論議から―

抄録

The purpose of this study is to discuss on the experiential values of sport, namely the educational and social values in experiencing sport. The study also try to re-evaluate the pragmatism in terms of the concepts of “experience” presented by J.Dewey and E.Reed. Through examining the sport experience based on Dewey's concept, we may see some educational possibilities as consecutively reconstituted experience in the developmental process. According to Reed's concept of experience, many suggestions of the social values were derived in sport experience, that is namely the “primary experience” of sport making persons free from the crisis of experience in modern society. Such experiential values as an important property of sport should be strongly insisted in our enterprise of education and social matter. At result, it comes to be appeared as the next task how to observe and refer onto person's encounter with a rich experience of sport. Thus, when we consider the meaning acquired in the sport experience, the educational and social values should be re-evaluated. If we stand on such a viewpoint, the ground of school or even the facility of sport as an environment must be reviewed as the space which would cultivate a rich experience above the traditional framework. It is also to inquire into the meaning of body and its movement fully absorbed in the experience of sport.