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- Waerner, Thérèse, et al.
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Participation Rights in Youth Sport: Voices of Young Swedish Equestrians
- 2024
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Ingår i: Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1103-3088 .- 1741-3222.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all children and young people have the right to have a voice in matters concerning them, in accordance with age and maturity. In the endeavour to make youth sport a safe place free from abuse and harassment, it is crucial to ensure that young athletes can exercise their participation rights. Drawing from an online study involving over 550 Swedish young equestrians aged 15–17, the aim was to investigate whether and in what ways young equestrians can make their voices heard. The results show that the possibility to have a voice is conditioned by sociocultural factors such as what type of stable the youths are active in. The results are analysed from ‘The ladder of participation’. In sum, social interaction and access to horses are important conditions for how young equestrians experience the possibility to have a voice.
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- Waerner, Thérèse, et al.
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Young horseback riders’ voice of their participation rights.
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The UN Convention on the Right of the Child became part of Swedish law in 2020. Consequently, every coach in sport must make sure that children’s rights are secured. The overall aim with this PhD-project is to analyze conditions for a child rights perspective to be implemented in equestrian sport. In equestrian sport, young people cultivate several skills; they learn to cooperate, take initiatives and be responsible. Abuse and harassment are heard of but seldom spoken out loud, maybe because of fear of losing the opportunity to take part. It seems to be a paradoxical situation – the stable context produces leaders and many young horseback riders have a strong voice, but it also produces youths who are powerless and vulnerable. In this presentation, the purpose is to give voice to young horseback riders and analyze what they themselves feel that they can decide about in their sport. An online survey for riders aged 15-17 years has been carried out. The survey consisted of almost 70 questions and 569 youths responded. In this presentation we focus on some open-ended questions about young riders’ views of what they can and want to decide and have a voice about. The preliminary results show that many of the young riders do not feel that they can exercise their participation rights the way they should. The conclusion is that young horseback riders want to be more involved and they want to have a stronger voice in matters that concern them.
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- Agergaard, Sine, et al.
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Children's Rights to and in Sport : A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Policies in the Scandinavian Countries
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Sciences. - : MDPI. - 2076-0760. ; 13:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-being, with organized sport forming part of the daily lives of many children and youths. In this paper, we examine the organizational policies in Scandinavian sport in order to develop foundational knowledge about how the range of children's rights to and in sport may be supported. Comparing key policy documents of the major sports confederations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, these analyses identify great variety in the following: 1. when and how children's rights to and in sport have been made explicit in the three countries; 2. whether the emphasis is on protection and/or provision of sport to children and youths or their participation in shaping sporting activities; 3. the degree to and ways in which such rights are regulated. In sum, our findings reflect a disparity between organizational policies in the three countries, with a more liberal and individualistic approach to public policy in the Danish context, providing some explanation of the only recent development in and scattered enaction of regulations to support children's rights to and in sports. Furthermore, we identify that political attention has mainly been drawn to the protection and provision of sports to children and youths, while their participation in shaping sport is a shared challenge for sport confederations in the Scandinavian countries and beyond.
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- Downing, Charlotte, et al.
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A systematic review of quantitative studies concerning psychological aspects of early specialisation
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. - : Routledge. - 1612-197X .- 1557-251X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the intense and long-standing interest surrounding early sport specialisation, scholars still debate its nature and implications. Previous researchers have also identified the need for further research relating to the psychological aspects of early specialisation such as lower quality motivation, dropout and burnout. To help guide future research it is important to build upon the quantitative literature concerning such psychological aspects of early specialisation. The specific aims of this paper are to provide an overview of research results of quantitative studies that set out to explore relationships between early specialisation and psychological aspects, and to critically examine the designs of such studies. As such, study design characteristics including participant demographics, the psychological aspects represented, and the research questions and results are explored. Data searches were conducted in PubMed, SportDiscus, and PsychINFO using search terms such as "early sport speciali*". Twenty-one relevant papers met the inclusion criteria. The results highlight that the published papers in this area are broad in some respects (variety of sports, performance levels, and gender), but narrow in others (North American dominance, few psychological aspects explored, and few papers per psychological aspect). Many of the studies are based on cross-sectional and retrospective self-reports. Overall, this paper serves as a foundation on which to design future research studies in this area.
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- Downing, Charlotte
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Early specialising aesthetic performers : An investigation of conceptualisation, motivation, and context
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral research project is situated within the wider debate of talent development in so-called early sports, where early specialisation is often normalised. The overarching aim is to investigate early specialisation within the context of Swedish aesthetic activities. Two research questions guided this research: 1) what characterises early specialisation, and 2) in what ways are aspects of early specialisation related to motivation?This doctoral research project includes four individual papers. The first paper is a systematic review that investigated the contextual underpinnings of recommendations regarding early specialisation and psychological aspects (e.g., motivation, burnout). The second paper outlines the development of a measurement tool for capturing degrees of early specialisation within the context of Swedish aesthetic activities. The third paper is a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study which used this measurement tool to explore the relationship between degrees of early specialisation and motivation (autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and dropout intentions), and explored perceptions of parental influence as a moderator. The fourth paper is a qualitative interview-based study that investigated reflections on motivation throughout the training history of high-level gymnasts and figure skaters who specialised early. Additional data regarding perfectionism and parental participation in sport, collected in relation to this research but not included within the four papers, is also outlined and discussed in this thesis. Results highlight the complexity of early specialisation in terms of how it is defined, measured, and conceptualised, as well as the possible relationship to psychological aspects (e.g., motivation, perfectionism). Overall, the results do not align with the notion that early specialisation leads to lower quality motivation and an increased risk of dropout. While this research has made methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions to this research area, it is also clear that more research is needed to better understand and explain the possible outcomes often associated with early specialisation.
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- Downing, Charlotte, et al.
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Why did they continue? Female gymnasts’ reflections on early specialisation
- 2022
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Ingår i: 16th European Congress of Sport & Exercise Psychology.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research largely advises against early specialisation, due to possible physical and psychological risks (Côté, Lidor, & Hackfort,2009). For this study, we are interested in exploring gymnasts’ reflections of early specialisation in relation to motivation and autonomy.Despite limited empirical evidence, early specialisation is commonly considered necessary for high-level performance in aestheticactivities, such as gymnastics (Kliethermes et al., 2021). This study is one of the first to present qualitative data concerning experiencesof early specialisation, and the first known study to collect such data within female gymnasts.The research questions for this study are, 1) What motivated female gymnasts to remain in early specialised training? 2) How do theyreflect upon key specialisation milestones in relation to motivation and autonomy? and 3) How do they reflect upon the necessity of earlyspecialisation? The study is underway, with semi-structured interviews being conducted with female gymnasts aged 15-24 who selfreported a high degree of early specialisation. Specifically, those who reported reaching specialisation milestones at the youngest ageswere recruited from a database of 115 high-level gymnasts. The data will be analysed using abductive thematic analysis, where selfdetermination theory provides a framework to explore the interplay between early specialisation and motivation towards continuedparticipation in gymnastics.It is anticipated that the results will contribute valuable data regarding experiences of early specialisation, and how these experiencesmight influence motivation towards continued training. Such data also has the potential to shed light on the often-inconsistent quantitativeresults exploring motivational correlates of early specialisation.
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- Fagrell, Birgitta, 1945-, et al.
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The game within the game: Girls' underperforming position in Physical Education
- 2012
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Ingår i: Gender and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0954-0253 .- 1360-0516. ; 24:1, s. 101-118
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since 1980 the Swedish compulsory school curriculum has stipulated that Physical Education (PE) should be taught co-ed and schools are legally required to promote gender equality. The latest evaluation of PE in Sweden shows that more boys than girls ranked the subject highly and that they had a higher level of activity during the PE lessons. Drawing on a case study, the aim of this article is to illuminate how games placed girls and boys in different subject positions. The logic governing the observed lessons was ‘proper game’, i.e. playing according to the official rules. Combined with hegemonic masculinity and the passivity of the teacher, this kind of logic resulted in the game being dominated by several dominant boys and by the ball-playing girls either being positioned or allowing themselves to be placed in situations in which they consistently underperformed. A gender category in late modernity, resting on hegemonic masculinity, can be seen as a cultural flashpoint that reflects problems in society rather than problems in the gym.
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- Karlsson, Jesper
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Barn- och ungdomsidrott till salu : Om begär, immateriellt arbete och kommersialisering
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent decades scholars have noted a trend in Swedish child and youth sport, namely that businesses are emerging parallel to the Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC), Sweden’s leading ideally driven sports organisation. Despite this recent trend of businesses starting to organise child and youth sport, research on the phenomenon is as yet scarce. This is also true for the overarching research area of the commercialisation of youth sport. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to analyse how commercially driven child and youth sport in Sweden functions and how leading representatives from child and youth sport businesses perceive Swedish child and youth sport.The thesis consists of four sub-studies. Three of the studies are based on data from different child and youth sport business websites, while the other is based on data from interviews with leading representatives from different child and youth sport businesses.The results identify four different commercial de-territorialisation processes that have been established, or territorialised, in Sweden. These four de-territorialisation processes consist of businesses that target their services to different potential customers groups. They also identify how the different businesses produce immaterial values regarding child and youth sport in order to attract potential customers. These values are enunciated differently depending on the kind of de-territorialisation processes the businesses stem from. Furthermore, the thesis illustrates that in their website images the businesses often visually represent their ideal customers as white boys and girls who are actively pursuing some kind of sport. It also shows that the leading business representatives position themselves and their services as passionate sport enthusiasts, child and youth sport actors and actors in a changing society.The conclusion is that the commercialisation of child and youth sport functions in four different ways and creates boundaries between ideally- and commercially driven sport. The challenge for ideally driven sport is to keep control over sport as a social and cultural product. This is especially important in a post-industrial society, where businesses aspire to take control of the social and cultural content of sport and make it profitable
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- Karlsson, Jesper, et al.
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Barn- och ungdomsidrottens entreprenörer på en kommersiell spelplan – en positioneringsanalys
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. - : Malmö University. - 2000-088X. ; 14, s. 75-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Den här artikeln undersöker hur kommersiella idrottsentreprenörer inom barn- och ungdomsidrott positionerar sig själva och sina verksamheter i förhållande till den svenska föreningsidrotten. Studien undersöker olika positioner som entreprenörer intar i relation till barn- och ungdomsidrotten och diskurserna som omgärdar den utifrån entreprenörers perspektiv. I resultatet lyfts tre olika positioner fram: (1) Den vanliga, passionerade barn- och ungdomsidrottsentusiasten; (2) entreprenörer som kompletterande aktörer i relation till föreningsidrott; och (3) företagarnas position i relation till det omgivande samhället. Sammanfattningsvis positionerar entreprenörerna sig inte som ett hot mot den svenska idrottsrörelsen. Men samtidigt hävdar de på olika sätt att deras verksamhet överträffar idrottsklubbarnas när det gäller att tillhandahålla idrott för barn och ungdomar. Dessutom tycks de positionera sina tjänster gentemot utvalda familjer framför andra, och verka inom en ram där barn- och ungdomsidrott i allt högre grad behandlas som en kommodifierbar enhet i det nutida samhället.
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- Karlsson, Jesper, et al.
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Looks, Liveliness, and Laughter : Visual Representations in Commercial Sports for Children
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Communication. - : Human Kinetics. - 1936-3915 .- 1936-3907. ; 16:2, s. 178-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contemporary society, visual information is influential, not least when businesses are communicating with potential customers. It represents and influences how people understand phenomena. In sports, much attention is directed toward how media represent elite sports and sport stars. Less attention is directed toward children’s sports. The aim of this article is to explore and analyze visual representations of children on sport businesses’ websites. The sample contained 697 images of sporting children, on which an interpretative content and discourse analysis was conducted. The study shows that the ideal customer emerging on these sites is a White, physically active, able, and slim boy or girl. Consumer culture seems to reproduce and preserve existing normative frameworks rather than producing alternative norms and ideas in children’s sport. Moreover, dilemmatic images of children both as competent and as innocent develop, displaying a childhood that should be both joyful and active but also safeguarded.
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- Karlsson, Jesper, et al.
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Selling youth sport : the production and promotion of immaterial values in commercialised child and youth sport
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; , s. 565-578
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The contexts in which young people participate in sport are diverse. In Scandinavia, as in many other countries, child and youth sport is mainly organised in non-profit, membership-based and voluntary driven sports clubs. In Sweden, this model is now challenged by commercial businesses providing child and youth sport services. The overall aim of this article is to provide empirically based knowledge about these ongoing and largely unexplored commercialisation processes. The focus of the article is to illuminate how commercial businesses produce immaterial values through the promotion of sport services. In this article, we have explored the cultural and social values produced and promoted by commercial businesses in youth sport. Drawing on the website communications of eight commercial businesses from four different commercial strands, we use the concept of immaterial labour to consider the values produced when child and youth sport is turned into a desirable product on the market. The values generated from the texts on the selected websites are the immaterial values of (i) competence, (ii) individually adjusted training and, (iii) happiness. These values are enunciated differently by the businesses in the different strands. We situate the findings in relation to western social and cultural values and discuss the potential consequences of these value productions for contemporary ideas about youth sport and the way it should be organised.
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- Kempe-Bergman, Matthis, 1978-, et al.
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Idrottslyftet lyfter vadå?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Svensk Idrottsforskning. - Stockholm. - 1103-4629. ; :1, s. 46-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Larsson, Håkan, 1967-, et al.
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Idrottslyftets externa utvärdering : Svenska Badmintonförbundet, Svenska Bordtennisförbundet, Svenska Fotbollförbundet och Svenska Volleybollförbundet
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten utgör resultatet av en uppföljning av satsningarna inom Idrottslyftet i idrotterna badminton, bordtennis, fotboll och volleyboll. Uppföljningen har genomförts av tre forskare från Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, i Stockholm på uppdrag av Riksidrottsförbundet (RF). Samtliga RF:s medlemsförbund fick möjlighet att anmäla sitt intresse för att ingå i uppföljningen. De förbund som visade intresse fördelades på sex forskargrupper från lärosäten i landet med idrottsvetenskaplig verksamhet.Rapporten inleds med några allmänna ord om Idrottslyftet, vad vår uppföljning går ut på och hur den har genomförts. Därefter följer ett avsnitt om RF:s riktlinjer när det gäller barn- och ungdomsidrott. På detta följer ett kapitel om var och en av de i uppföljningen ingående idrotterna badminton, bordtennis, fotboll och volleyboll avseende hur man ser på och har arbetat med Idrottslyftets intentioner när det gäller 1) att öppna dörrarna för fler och utveckla verksamheten så att fler väljer att fortsätta idrotta, 2) jämlikhet och jämställdhet och 3) Idrotten vill. Därtill har vi undersökt hur man inom de fyra förbunden ser på administrationen av satsningen. Rapporten avslutas med en jämförande analys av idrottslyftssatsningarna inom dessa idrotter och några slutsatser och reflektioner kring arbetet med satsningen.
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- Larsson, Håkan, et al.
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Swedish physical education research questioned : Current situation and future directions
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786. ; 13:4, s. 381-398
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Research on the school subject of physical education and health in Sweden has proliferated in the early part of the 21st century. Several large research programmes have been conducted that shed light on the history of physical education and health in this country and that provide a research-based description of the current situation in the subject, particularly with regard to teachers' and pupils' view of the subject and which activities dominate the lessons. Purpose: to review the main results of two of these research programmes, highlight some of the practical challenges facing people working with the development of physical education and health as identified by the research, and point to some of the research challenges arising from how the reviewed research was actually conducted. Findings: The reviewed research reveals an uncertainty about the subject’s educational purpose. Teachers maintain that the main purpose of physical activity is to 'have fun' and the majority of pupils report a positive attitude towards the subject. However, those favouring the subject, mostly boys, are also members of a sports club in their leisure time. Both teachers and pupils have difficulties in articulating what the pupils are supposed to learn in physical education and health. Some of the pupils report that they are supposed to learn the skills and rules of different kinds of sports. Observation studies also confirm that conventional sports activities, particularly ball games, tend to dominate the subject in terms of the use of language heavily loaded with competitive sport connotations. Conclusions: The results of the research programmes highlight a number of practical challenges with regard to a physical education and health that according to the national syllabus is supposed to emphasise teaching and learning (for) health: what, more exactly, are pupils supposed to learn and what does a teaching that facilitates such learning look like, what does a teaching that is equitable for all pupils look like and what is the relation between physical education, sport and health? The results of the research also highlight a number of research challenges. Much of the research was carried out without an elaborated theoretical framework that emphasised the teaching processes and the relation between teaching and learning. In addition, most of the research was undertaken from a point of view considered alien to most physical education teachers. There seems to be a need for studies that aim to reduce the gap between theory/researchers and practice/practitioners. Finally, there seems to be a need for researchers to change focus from studying activities to studying learning outcomes.
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- Linghede, Eva, et al.
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Heteronormativiteten och dess sprickor : iscensättningar av kön och sexualitet inom idrotten
- 2009
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Ingår i: SVEBIS årsbok. - 0284-4672. ; , s. 103-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with ten homo- or bisexual female athletes, the aim of the study was to investigate how norms connected to gender and sexuality were produced and reproduces in six team sports within the Swedish sports movements. Central questions were: What experiences do homo- or bisexual women have of everyday sporting activities? How are norms on sex and sexuality visible? Are these norms ever challenged? The results indicate that heteronormative discourses mainly are confirmed in everyday activities. The structure of sports, with its clear division between women and men and its strong connection to masculinity, seems to result either in a positive or a negative environment for homo- or bisexual female athletes. On the one hand sport was characterized by strict norms on sex and sexuality, homophobic tendencies, discrimination and insulting behaviours, and on the other hand it was experienced as a free zone, where norms on sex and sexuality were challenged and less firm than in society at large.
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- Redelius, Karin, 1961-
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Barnet och ungdomen i centrum
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Ingår i: Idrottsledare för barn och ungdom. - Stockholm : SISU Idrottsböcker. ; , s. 7-34
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- Redelius, Karin, 1961-
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Barnidrotten i ett samhällsperspektiv
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Ingår i: Pedagogiska perspektiv på idrott. - Stockholm : HLS förlag. ; , s. 57-73
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- Redelius, Karin, Professor, 1961-
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Exploring young athletes (social and political) participation rights
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last decades there has been a growing interest in issues concerning children’s rights in sport, and problems that concern the welfare and well-being of youth in sport have been addressed. Research acknowledges for example the role of overtraining, sexual and emotional abuse, burnout and dropout (David, 2005; Donnelly, 2008; UNICEF, 2010). One aspect that is less studied but nevertheless has been pointed out as an important factor that may prevent many violations, is to secure that youth always have a voice i.e., to guarantee that they can exercise their participation right This endeavor is tantamount to the intentions in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It concerns the child's right to express his or her views in all matters that concern them. A child is regarded a person up to 18 years of age which means that the convention also covers those we usually call youth. In this study, we are inspired by Elvstrand (2009) who acknowledges that participation is part of the concept of democracy and thereby has a broad meaning that includes both the right to influence and the right to be included. In that sense, we assume that it is possible to distinguish between different forms of participation – a political form and a social form. Political participation is about the right to influence, to have "a voice", and to be part of decision-makings. For this to be possible, young people need information, be asked, and encouraged to comment and be listened to. In other words, young people should be included in such a way that the practice can be designed to suit their needs and desires). Social participation is about the right to be included and part of a community, for example to be part of sporting activities carried out in a club. We are thus seeing the concept of participation both as a social right (to be a part of a group, such as a gymnastic or ice hockey club) and as a political right (to have an impact and the power to influence decisions).One premise for this study is that having something to say about one’s participation is closely related to whether the participants are primarily constructed as subjects of experience and willingness, or as objects of external forces and demands, and this is in turn affected by norms and values that dominate different sporting practices. We are thus interested in illuminating young peoples’ chances to be subjects in their own thinking and acting when participating in movement cultures of various kinds. Consequently, both young participants and adult coaches are regarded as socio-culturally situated.The aim of this study is to examine young athletes' perspectives on different forms of participation and to analyse the conditions for competitive sports participation in club sport. Central questions are: What experiences do young athletes have of social and political participation in club sport? What are the possibilities in general for young athletes to have something to say about central matters, such as goal settings, training frequency, training content, selections, tactics, and team rules? Method and sampleData was gathered through an on-line questionnaire answered by 426 young athletes aged 15–17. They were active in four different sports: gymnastics (57), football (116), floorball (120) and ice hockey (133) in sport clubs in from the regions of Stockholm and northern Sweden. The average age was 15.5 years, and the gender distribution of the sample is 221 boys and 205 girls. About one of four were active in an academy team or a selected competition group. The sports were selected to include both a team sport and an individual sport that are well established among children and youth in Sweden. While athlete voice should be of key importance across all sports, we argue that the sports they represent are particularly interesting contexts from which to explore degrees of participation. Football and gymnastics are among the most popular sports for children yet concerns over athlete voice within these contexts have been reported. In football, recent research has highlighted that several regulations and policies from Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) contradict the UNCRC . For example, a blanket ban in international transfers for players under 18 years became a policy without any input from children (Yilmaz et al., 2020). In gymnastics, there is a long-standing tradition for early selection and reaching elite level at an early age Recently, former gymnasts have also stepped forward and voiced stories of abuse happening when they were younger (Barker-Ruchti, 2009). Therefore, we view football and gymnastics as important sports to explore in relation to participation and children’s rights. There is even less scientific knowledge about how the conditions for young ice hockey players are regarding their particpation rights, although a wealth of research points at strong hegemonic masculine norms that prevail the hockey culture and calls have been made for investigations about the potentially problematic consequences a community based on undemocratic attitudes and values may have for young individuals. This study is responding to these calls.ConclusionAn important result is that young athletes’ participation is ambiguous; it is both high and low at the same time. Their experience of social participation is quite large, to a lesser extent they experience political participation (some more than others), and they can to a small or no extent at all affect the conditions for their competitive sport participation. The question is what the consequences may be of young people's participation being large and highly limited at the same time.One conclusion is that this ambiguity is part of the explanation why the voice of young athletes are not stronger. The social participation that many feel in the form of a sense of community and belonging seems to "infect" their experience of political participation; that is our interpretation because the majority of young athletes can hardly be said to have any real influence over how their sport is being organized. The fact that they experience a certain kind of participation thus risks hiding shortcomings regarding other forms of participation, which can also be a reason why the problem is downplayed and reduced. Research in this area shows that young people's participation is not a prioritized issue to work with for sports clubs. Whether it is due to lack of interest or lack of knowledge is difficult to know, but perhaps the weak commitment can be attributed to the ambiguous participation - the shortcomings are simply not visible and then the incentives to work to strengthen young people's participation in sports clubs are as great. ReferencesBarker-Ruchti, N. (red.) (2019). Athlete Learning in Elite Sport. New York: Routledge.Cervin, G., Kerr, R., Barker-Ruchti, N., Schubring, A. & Nunomura, M. (2017). Growing up and speaking out: Female gymnasts’ rights in aging sport. Annals of Leisure Research, 20(3): 317–330.David, P. (2005). Human Rights in Youth Sport: a critical review of children’s rights in competitive sports. Routledge: London and New York.Donnelly, P. (2008). Sport and human rights. Sport in Society, 11(4): 381–394.Elvstrand, H. (2009). Delaktighet i skolans vardagsarbete. 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Gör idrotten som Idrotten vill? : Barn- och ungdomsidrottens utformning i retorik och praktik
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här studien handlar om idrottsrörelsens policydokument Idrotten vill och dess väg från visionär retorik, beslutad i styrelserum och på stämmor, till praktisk handling när idéerna ska realiseras av tränare i lokala föreningar. Riktlinjerna har i stort sett varit desamma under de 20 år som gått sedan beslutet om Idrotten vill togs. Forskning visar dock att riktlinjerna inte alltid är normgivande, och att idrotten inte självklart gör som Idrotten vill. Kunskap saknas om i vilken utsträckning föreningsledare och tränare känner till idrottsrörelsens övergripande riktlinjer samt varför andemeningen i Idrotten vill inte är vägledande i alla sammanhang.Syftet med studien är att undersöka i vilken mån centralt formulerade idéer i Idrotten vill har fått genomslag på lokal nivå där barn- och ungdomsidrotten utformas och utövas. Ytterligare ett syfte är att studera tränares erfarenhet av hur riktlinjerna följs, samt att analysera vilka övergripande idéer som det verkar vara svårast att tillämpa. Följande frågor är centrala: I vilken utsträckning har idrottsföreningar egna riktlinjer för barn- och ungdomsidrott och vad utmärker dessa? Vad känner tränare till om de övergripande idéerna i Idrotten vill, och vad anser de om idéernas genomslag? Vilka idéer verkar svårast att tillämpa och hur legitimerar tränare sina ställningstaganden i relation till dessa idéer? Förhoppningen är att resultaten ska tillföra ny och värdefull kunskap om hur arbeta för att öka kännedomen om och tillämpningen av Idrotten vill kan ske.En utgångspunkt är att resultatet av riktlinjernas genomslag har att göra med vad tränare känner till om de övergripande idéerna, vilka faktiska möjligheter de har att praktisera och konkretisera riktlinjerna och av enskilda ledares uppfattningar om hur och varför barn ska idrotta. För att besvara frågorna har flera metoder använts och olika urval av ledare har skett enligt följande: en kartläggning av policydokument och tillhörande riktlinjer från 100 slumpvis utvalda föreningar i alpin skidåkning, fotboll, ishockey, konståkning och tennis, intervjuer med 15 tränare från både bredd- och elitinriktade föreningar i ovan nämnda idrotter samt enkätsvar från 466 tränare i ett 40-tal idrotter från föreningar i 13 distriktsförbund.Resultaten visar att drygt hälften av föreningarna har utformat egna riktlinjer för barn- och ungdomsidrott. Riktlinjerna varierar dock stort i omfattning och vad de innebär är sällan konkretiserat. Även om ett fåtal tränare känner till Idrotten vill som dokument betraktat, verkar merparten vara bekanta med de övergripande idéerna. En majoritet av tränarna anser också att riktlinjerna mestadels är vägledande vid utformningen av idrott för unga, särskilt då de själva är ansvariga. Däremot sympatiserar inte alla tränare med alla riktlinjer. Särskilt frågan som rör värdet av tidiga satsningar och selektion kontra en mer lekfull inriktning med mindre fokus på tävlingsresultat delar tränarkåren. Frågan engagerar och väcker känslor. Tränarna är eniga om att det gäller att hålla de ungas idrottsintresse vid liv – men hur det ska ske finns det skilda uppfattningar om.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I det här kapitlet presenteras delar av innehållet i idrottsrörelsens gemensamma vision och verksamhetsidé för att du ska få kunskap om vilka idéer och värden som ska genomsyra föreningsidrott. Här ges även några konkreta förslag på hur du som tränare kan vara med och bidra till idrottens vision - att skapa världens bästa idrott.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Lars-Magnus Engström – Mange kallad – gick bort den 2 januari i år. En månad tidigare firade han sin 75 årsdag. På pappret, som Mange skulle ha sagt, var han alltså pensionär sedan många år, men i realiteten var han fortfarande forskningsaktiv. Som professor emeritus hade han en rad uppdrag; han var sakkunnig vid tjänstetillsättningar, deltog i uppbyggnaden av en seminarieverksamhet vid Malmö högskola, var ledamot i GIH:s forsknings- och forskarutbildningsnämnd, handledde doktorander och dessutom ägnade han sig åt vetenskapligt skrivande. Vilken kunskap är det han ägnat sitt arbetsliv åt att utveckla? Och vad har han betytt för svensk idrott?
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