Posted on August 28, 2023
Using life skills to promote social justice: Youth sport as a vehicle for social change

Sport can serve as a setting for addressing social justice. By expanding the meaning of life skills, seeing life skills through a sociopolitical lens, and teaching life skills that address youth’s social realities all stakeholders in the sport system can work together to progress the positive development of youth and evolve life skills.
An important step in evolving life skills involves creating alignment between how athletes learn and use life skills, and how these skills are understood in the context of social movements.