La multilateralità sociale dello sport e il suo mancato investimento

The social multilateralism of sport and its lack of investment · The social multilateralism of sport is a compromised fact in sports practice. This is usually related to the concept of competition; area where sporting rules are shared but where, at the same time, the pursuit of the performance often is not linked to the teaching of relational values in sport. We can find this teaching only in sports niches in wich there is an expert, holistic approach to the sport, far from the socio-economic conditioning and the stereotyping of athletic gestures as an end in themselves. More often, sports teaching highlights a one-sided nature of orientations and ends, thus showing sport's lack of investment for the development of well-being and human relations. Today a paradigm shift is needed. Today it is actually possible to think of a greater interest in the social aspects of sport as a natural evolution of the welfare state, in the direction of an approach based on sport as a 'relational and cultural asset'. The analyses of this paper are based on the scientific results of the «Sport and integration» research by the National Research Council of Italy, which has helped to break the myth of educational sport.