Le Blanc, Owens Visual Literacy , Physical Literacy

Dr. Roger G. LeBlanc, École de kinésiologie et de récréologie, UdeMDr. Roger G. LeBlanc, École de kinésiologie et de récréologie, UdeMM. Robert E. Owens, Department of Kinesiology, UNCGM. Robert E. Owens, Department of Kinesiology, UNCG

From Visual Literacy to Physical Literacy: Engaging Sport For Development and Peace in the Digital Age

Canadian University Clubs 1.1. Université de MonctonUniversité de Moncton2. McMaster3. Toronto 4. UBC5. McGill 6. Concordia7. Queen’s 8. Carleton 9. Sir Wilfred Laurier10. Ottawa11. Calgary12. Simon Fraser13. Western Ontario14. St FX15. Brock16. George Brown17. Holland18. Lester B. Pearson19. York20. Humber Polytechnic

ObjectivesObjectives

• RTPRTP Champions’ programChampions’ program

• To enable Student-Athletes the opportunity to speak about their positive experiences with sport

• To educate about the power of sport as a tool for development and peace

• To encourage youth to become/stay active (I hour / day)

• To empower youth to become global citizens

• Organise games, sporting and Organise games, sporting and social eventssocial events

Humanitarian Work in Haiti

8 million people on less than 1$ / day

Moncton

Haiti

UdeM humanitarian trip24 April – 6 May 2010

• 26 member crew• A ton and half of sporting equipment (66 ice hockey bags)

• 1 school roof microeconomic project (worth $6 000.00)

• 12 team U-14 soccer tournament • First ever girls’ game• Children’s hospital and HIV orphanage• Clean up project in Port-au-Prince • 12 schools, 4000 children

(Video segment)

Defining Visual Literacy

a group of vision-competencies …that enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, symbols, natural or man-made, that he or she encounters in his or her environment. (Debes,1969)

(Critical) Visual Literacy & Sport Development

• Rejects grand narratives• Focuses on exteriority and depictions of

(racialized) Others• Recognizes the power of discourse but

emphasizes lived experience and the possibility of the real

• Empowers the self

Moncton

Haiti

« The more we have the less we share, « The more we have the less we share,   the less we have the more we share »the less we have the more we share »

… … less we have, more we play»less we have, more we play»

« More we have   « More we have       less we play …    less we play …

Questions ? Comments ?

Thank you – Merci …