Research on Educational Sport

Attempting to reach a common language through sport: A phenomenological approach to the lived experience of the international student

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 .PhD Student Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran

2 Physical education department, Humanities Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University

3 Assistant professor of Humanities Faculty of Tarbiat Modares University

4 Faculty of literature & Human Sciences, social science group

5 Centro de Evaluacion y Medicion de Bienestar Aptitud Fisica y Deportiva PhD, M.S.

Abstract
Today, the sport events are used as a tool for socializing students. The aim of this research is to analyze the lived experience of the international student athletes from participating in the first international students cultural-sports Olympiad, that was done with a qualitative method and a phenomenological approach. The participants were selected through the purposeful sampling method (n=16). Data was collected through in-depth interviews and reflective conversations and also analyzed by the seven step Diekelmann, Allen & Tanner approach (1989). Attempting to reach a common language through sport, it was the main theme. Also, the ten categories of sub-themes were obtained, which include the forming a different image of Iran, getting to know the host country's culture, highlighting of intercultural challenges and efforts to solve them, experiencing the knowledge of Iran, networking and strengthening social relations through the sport, strengthening the sense of humanitarianism, diminishing nationalism and strengthening human solidarity, the disappearance of boundaries and barriers to effective communication, need to comply with the norms and collective values and knowing the core values of the event hosting community. Hence it can be noted that sport has acted as a tool to facilitate socialization as well as to reach a common language; therefore, contemporary society achieves altruism from sport, as long as policy makers use such sport events.

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Research on Educational Sport
Volume 11, Issue 33
February 2024
Pages 189-204

  • Receive Date 24 July 2023
  • Revise Date 03 November 2023
  • Accept Date 10 December 2023

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