Thank you so much for sharing Lou. Crucial to bring our attention as educators to what's baked in to the the system. In my own work last year, we had a wonderful session with the former chair of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association. For that session we looked quite closely at how we interpret 'competition'. In one element of the session we took out time over the following quote taken from Angela Duckworth:
Compete early 17th century: from Latin competere, in its late sense ‘strive or contend for (something)’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’. “Quite literally it means strive together it doesn’t have anything in its origins about the other person losing” (Duckworth, 2017:265).
Thank you so much for sharing Lou. Crucial to bring our attention as educators to what's baked in to the the system. In my own work last year, we had a wonderful session with the former chair of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association. For that session we looked quite closely at how we interpret 'competition'. In one element of the session we took out time over the following quote taken from Angela Duckworth:
Compete early 17th century: from Latin competere, in its late sense ‘strive or contend for (something)’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’. “Quite literally it means strive together it doesn’t have anything in its origins about the other person losing” (Duckworth, 2017:265).