This book explores the nature and function of values in youth sport and establishes a framework through which coaches, teachers and researchers can develop an understanding of the decision-making processes of young athletes and how they choose between playing fairly or cheating to win. The book argues that teachers and professionals working with children in sport are centrally important agents for value transmission and change and therefore need to develop a deeper understanding of how sport can be used to encourage pro-social values, and offers suggestions for developing a curriculum for teaching values through sport in differing social contexts.

Introduction: Exploring youth sport values 1. Why are sport and physical education valuable?: Values, sport, and physical education PART I: Values, attitudes, and achievement goals 2. What sport values do young people hold?: Values in children's sport: Spontaneously expressed values by young athletes 3. Which sport values are most important to young people?: The measurement of values in youth sport: Development of the Youth Sport Values Questionnaire 4. How important are ethical attitudes?: Development of the Attitudes to Moral Decision-making in Youth Sport Questionnaire 5. How do values influence attitudes and achievement goals?: Relationships among values, achievement orientations and attitudes in youth sport 6. How similar are sport values in different nations?: Exploring cross-cultural value systems 7. How do values relate to motivation?: Values and motivational processes in sport: An AGT and SDT perspective PART 2: Value transmission and value change 8. How does value structure underlie value conflict?; To win fairly or to win at all costs? A conceptual framework for value-change interventions in sport 9. How can we teach values through sport?: Teaching values through sport in divided societies 10. How does coach behaviour change the motivational climate?: The creation of a learning environment conducive to the transmission of prosocial values 11. How important are the values of significant others?: The influence of teachers and type of school on pupils' values 12. How can sport practitioners balance conflicting values?: Ethics, values, and practice: A reflective dialogue on ethical dilemmas and coaching practice PART 3: Overview 13. What questions remain: Further thoughts and future directions