Sport, like singing, dancing or painting, is unnecessary. A small fraction of athletes make a living out of sport as professionals, but the vast majority of us who are involved in sports are amateurs who never achieve anything remarkable. Still, so many of us are drawn to sport, find our identities in sport, and enthusiastically share our stories about the best and worst experiences we had in sport. Why?
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Existential Learning in Sport: on Finding our Ways through Life
Two typical assumption of our youth sport cultures are that sport contributes to positive youth development (PYD) and that participants learn something important not only for sport, but life in general. As our previous work with colleagues (as well as the work of other researchers) has pointed out, this learning in sport has been often…
Meaningful Sport Podcast: What is New for 2022?
The meaningful sport thematic series has now been going for about 1.5 years as a part of Physical Activity Researcher podcast. During this time, the podcast has grown steadily and we have been delighted to have a third host, Liis Kukkonen, leading her “practitioner viewpoint” series. Meaningful Sport episodes have been released on Fridays and…
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