1. Teenage Personality Education and Taekwondo
6th International Taekwondo Symposium
3rd September 2012

2. Teenage Personality Education and Taekwondo
Critique

3. Importance of Teenage Personality Education
Characteristics of teenagers
Adolescents
‘Personality education’
Meaning of personality
Correlation with taekwondo
Taekwondo’s contribution

4. Taekwondo & personality education
Correlation between the two
Meaning of personality education in the context of Taekwondo’s contribution
Taekwondo spirit
Role of TKD instructors

5. Taekwondo and personality development of teenagers
Large amount of research
Mostly Korean
TKD training and life attitude
Enhancing morality and stability
Promoting emotional and mental health
Personality, physical and technical education
Instructor should guide, not control

6. Teenage Personality Education and Taekwondo
Comments

7. Comments Confirmation of previous experience Valid points Expectations
Role of instructors and coaches
TKD is more than medals and belts
Expectations
TKD can have positive results.
But there are no guarantees.

8. Comments Precedent Spiritual development The tenets of taekwondo
British sportsmanship led the way to the Olympics.
Spiritual development
Valid but ambiguous in some languages.
Does not mean religious in this context.
The tenets of taekwondo
Evidence-based not conjecture
‘Mens sana in corpore sano’
‘A healthy mind in a healthy body’
Ancient tenet, even more valid now