Exploring the multi-cultural impacts of sports, physical education and recreational values in promoting health and peace among the youth in Nigeria
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2015
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Awoyinfa, J.O.
Oladipo, S.A.
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Informatics Society
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The study investigated the cross cultural impact. of sports, physical- education and recreation club centres' in promoting health and peace in Nigeria. The study' was sought' to determine whether. participation in sports will address the issues of conflicts, disputes and war in Nigerian society. This. is because of the current escalation of religion,
ethnic and cultural. conflicts which are haying devastating and profound impact on the.peace, co- existence and the unity of Nigeria. The study focused was Lagos State. While the. study adopted the descriptive research design, the participants consisted of 200 sports .administrators, coaches, athletes and spectators' randomly selected from 5
public sports centres and 5private sports centresin Lagos State. The instrument used for. data collection, was questionnaire while the data collected' were· analyzed using chi-sqaure statistics.. Based on/he findings of the study, it was concluded that active participation in sports with' human .development through sports and education" creates a way of life based on the joy of effort, educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethnical principles and peaceful rivalry. It was recommended among others, that: adequate sporting facilities and equipment should be provided in schools and. public recreational centres and should be made available, accessible and affordable to all, government should encourage sporting activities, sports seminars, 'sports conferences and sports workshops among all youths ._ across the Nation and government should encourage competitive sports among the youth across the country in order to keep their mind offviolence
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A Conference paper presented at Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2015), June 22-25, 2015, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga. Canada.
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Awoyinfa, J.O. & Oladipo, S.A. (2015). Exploring the multi-cultural impacts of sports, physical education and recreational values in promoting health and peace among the youth in Nigeria A paper presented at Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2015) June 22-25, Toronto, Canada, 105-110p.