Abstract:The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of physical education and sports in promoting social values among youth. Physical education and sports plays a vital role in educating the youth regarding the importance of social values in their life. Reviewed literature investigated that the importance of association in educating both minds and body. Further, it also encourages the social values among youth that allow them to develop the social relations with their community. Moreover, the benefits of physical education and sports can influence both academic learning and physical activity of the youth.
In present era, physical education and sports is an essential part of education. It contributes directly to development of physical competence and fitness. It also helps the youth to be aware of the worth of leading a physically active lifestyle. The healthy and physically active youth is more likely to be academically motivated, attentive, and promising. In other words, we can say that physical education and sports is exclusive to the school core curriculum. It is the only programme that provides the opportunities to youth to learn motor skills, progress mental and physical fitness. The benefits of physical gained from physical activity such as disease prevention, safety and injury avoidance, decreased morbidity and premature mortality, and increased mental health. The physical education is only the course where youth learn about all of the benefits gained from being physically active as well as the skills and knowledge to incorporate safe, satisfying physical activity into their lives, in addition, how to interact with others (National Association for Sport and Physical Education, 2001). Moreover, it is observed that physical education sessions should be easy to get from preschool until secondary. It target to deal with a variety of physical activities and encourage those who are lack of leaning to take up planned competitive sports. This involves discard conventional methods of physical education teaching and focusing more on the individuals' needs and abilities, as an alternative of the enjoyment of physical activity. As time for physical education is generally limited within the school time schedule and curriculum, its content must be valuable and resourceful (Fox and Harris, 2003). Further Gonzalez et al. (2010) believed that curricular physical education within any sport, not only talent development scheme but a high development in social values among youth. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of physical education in promoting social values among youth.