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 oftenContinue reading “Existential Learning in Sport: on Finding our Ways through Life”
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Tim Jones: Social and Emotional Learning in Football Academies
Football academies in the UK have been under critical scrutiny by many researchers. Described as hierarchical, short-termist and embodying hegemonic notions of masculinity, it has been argued that they often contribute to identity foreclosure in young players. But are these academies addressing these problems and working towards supporting a more balanced development? Tim Jones, aContinue reading “Tim Jones: Social and Emotional Learning in Football Academies”
The ‘healthy minded’ and ‘sick souls’ in Sport?
I’ve recently gone back to reading William James, the American philosopher and psychologist whose classic work The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) I first encountered when exploring the spiritual dimension of running in my Master’s thesis 10 years ago. That time my interest was on considering how the sacred or transcendent dimension might manifest inContinue reading “The ‘healthy minded’ and ‘sick souls’ in Sport?”
Dr Trish Jackman: Flow in sport, exercise and physical education
This episode with Dr Trish Jackman is focused on flow in sport, exercise and physical activity. Flow experiences are often described as highly rewarding and contributing to our well-being, but have we managed to capture it with our models and explore it with appropriate methods? Might flow be experienced differently in different types of sportContinue reading “Dr Trish Jackman: Flow in sport, exercise and physical education”
Greg Dryer (Pt2) | Physical Education | Critical Pedagogy | miMove App
https://paresearcher.podbean.com/e/dryer2/ The second part of our discussion with Greg Dryer explores to the role of using apps and other ways of measuring our physical activity and how they might shape how we think and feel about movement, or even how we find meaning in it. We explore Greg’s project of developing and launching the miMoveContinue reading “Greg Dryer (Pt2) | Physical Education | Critical Pedagogy | miMove App”
Greg Dryer (Pt1) | Physical Education | Critical Pedagogy | Fun | Positive Youth Development
https://paresearcher.podbean.com/e/dryer/ Is fun a necessary part of good physical education? Or are there other, more profound experiences that might be more important for young people? Our discussion with Greg Dryer explores meaning and value of physical education in young people’s lives, what we know about meaningful experiences, and what might be ways that we canContinue reading “Greg Dryer (Pt1) | Physical Education | Critical Pedagogy | Fun | Positive Youth Development”
Drs Déirdre Ní Chróinín and Tim Fletcher (Pt2) | Meaningful PE | PE Teacher Education | Youth Sport | LAMPE project
https://paresearcher.podbean.com/e/meaningfulpe2/ All physical education teachers most likely aim to facilitate meaningful movement experiences. But when asked how they do that, it is not so easy. After all, meaning and meaningfulness are elusive concepts and we cannot assume that what is meaningful for one participant is meaningful in a similar way for another participant. So, givenContinue reading “Drs Déirdre Ní Chróinín and Tim Fletcher (Pt2) | Meaningful PE | PE Teacher Education | Youth Sport | LAMPE project”
Threats to meaningfulness in sport
No discussion about sport as a meaningful activity would be complete without considerations of the threats to that meaningfulness. We know that many youth athletes drop out or decide to quit. Some studies, mine included, have described how professional athletes consider sport merely a job and just “play the role of the athlete” without buyingContinue reading “Threats to meaningfulness in sport”