Moral development in sports at school age: Towards a fair play behaviours typology expressed in the White Card (Tarjeta Blanca) programme

摘要

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the moral development in sports at school age. A fair play behaviours typology has been developed, arranged into five stages of ethical progress and performed by young athletes within the White Card programme at the Fundación Real Madrid (FRM) basketball schools. In order to ascertain its validity, descriptions of the behaviours were submitted to the coaches at the FRM (n = 18), and a group of experts in sports and values from the actual FRM (n = 6) in order to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 depending on the moral value they attribute. The result obtained confirm, with few exceptions, the five proposed stages of progression..