Sensitive intelligence and sports betting: a pedagogical reading on adolescents and digital culture

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https://doi.org/10.20952/revtee.v19i38.24373

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adolescents; sports betting; problematic consumption; embodied intelligence; body education.

Abstract

This conceptual essay analyzes how online sports betting shapes adolescent sensibilities and what pedagogical implications this has for bodily education. Based on a critical review of national and international literature (2010-2024) and a dialogue with the notions of emotional habitus, the distribution of the sensible, and motor intelligence, the category of "sensory intelligence" is proposed to understand how perception, emotion, and action relate in betting practices. The article discusses the aestheticization of risk, the naturalization of betting in school contexts, and proposes pedagogical approaches focused on critical digital literacy and emotional and bodily education. It concludes that moving beyond the psychopathological framework opens up possibilities for educational intervention that recognize learning and regulate risk.

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Lucas Roth, Universidad Provincial de Cordoba

Lucas Roth is a Professor and holds a degree in Physical Education from the Faculty of Physical Education at the Provincial University of Córdoba. He researches the emotions activated in sports practices. He is a member of the UNSAM Investiga project, entitled “Sociability, play, and money in San Martín (Buenos Aires): Young people and their use of online sports betting platforms.”

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2026-06-19

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Roth, L. (2026). Sensitive intelligence and sports betting: a pedagogical reading on adolescents and digital culture. Revista Tempos E Espaços Em Educação, 19(38), e24373. https://doi.org/10.20952/revtee.v19i38.24373

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