Well Rounded Person - Feelings, Achievement, Identity & Youth Sports

Upcoming Sports Events

SafeClub was officially launched on 25th June 2009 with the support of the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation. Over 40 people representing sport from across NSW attended the luncheon launch to hear how SafeClub makes safety easy for community sport. A presentation from SafeClub’s Jane Nethery and Kristy Abbott included an overview of the program and the research evidence while Michelle Hanley from Football NSW covered the benefits of SafeClub from a sport perspective. Sports from across NSW are now signing up to partner with SafeClub to make their sport safer.

If you missed the launch and would like information on SafeClub click here.

Sunshine Coast Launches Girls Rugby League Competition

On Sunday, 10 May, ARL Development and the Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League will launch their inaugural U15's and U17s Girls Competition at the Beerwah Bulldogs JRL (Roberst Road, Beerwah) between 10am and midday. The Launch will involve Under 15 teams from Caboolture, Bribie Island, Coolum and Beerwah whilst the Under 17s will involve Nambour, Bribie Island and Beerwah.

Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience

Inspiring Youth Cricketer Jack Manning-Bancroft has helped University of Sydney Students get underway a mentoring program linking Indigenous year 9 and 10 school students from with mentors from across all university faculties. The underlying philosophy of AIME is to empower young indigenous people through positive role modelling and relationships, building self esteem and resilience, encouraging schoolattendance and progression to tertiary education.

Refugee Youth Soccer Development Program

This innovative program seeks to assist young refugees in their immigration and integration to Australia through sport. Check out their website for more information.

Upcoming Research

The third round of focus groups and fieldwork has been completed and a General Summary is being collated. Thanks to The Southport School, AB Paterson College, Rockhampton Girls Grammar School, Sapphire Coast Anglican College, Wagga Wagga Christian College, Al-Faisal College Auburn, Football United and the Burwood and Mosman Cubs for their participation. Preparation for further focus groups with parents, coaches and PDHPE teachers is underway.

Feelings, Achievement, Identity & Youth Sports

References: “Sports & Identity, incl: Athletic Identity”

Barber, B., Eccles, J. and Stone, M. ( 2001) ‘Whatever Happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess? Young Adult Pathways Linked to Adolescent Activity Involvement and Social Identity’, Journal of Adolescent Research 16: 429-55

Brewer, B., Van Raalte, J. and Linder, D. ( 1993) ‘Athletic Identity: Hercules’ Muscles or Achilles Heel?’, International Journal of Sport Psychology 24: 237-54.

Curry, T.J. and Weaner, J.S. ( 1987) ‘Sport Identity Salience, Commitment, and the Involvement of Self in Role: Measurement Issues’, Sociology of Sport Journal 4: 280-8.

Donnelly, P. and Young, K. ( 1988) ‘The Construction and Confirmation of Identity in Sport Subcultures’, Sociology of Sport Journal 5: 223-40.

Dunning, E. ( 1986) ‘Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations’, Theory, Culture and Society 3: 79-90.

Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) References:

Kirk, D. & MacPhail, A. (2002) Teaching Games for Understanding and situated learning:
rethinking the Bunker and Thorpe model, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 21,
177- 192.

Light, R. (1999) Regimes of training, seishin , and the construction of embodied masculinity in
Japanese university rugby, International Sports Studies, 21(1), 39-54.

Light, R. (2004) The challenges of implementing a Game Sense approach in youth sport: change
and resistance, Waikato Journal of Education, 10, 167-180.

Light, R. & Fawns, R. (2001) The thinking body: constructivist approaches to games teaching in
physical education, Melbourne Studies in Education, 42(2), 6987.

Young athletic bodies and narrative maps of aging

This paper draws on data generated by life history interviews with 22, university based, young athletes to explore their narrative maps of aging. Three key resources were seen to provide information that shaped individual stories of self-aging. These were as follows: family members, older team members, and the undergraduate curriculum. Each of these is considered in turn and the manner in which they are consequential in constructing a feared self that is associated with bodily decline in the future is highlighted. It is suggested that these young athletes constitute a vulnerable group in relation to the aging process. The issue of narrative foreclosure is then discussed prior to suggestions being made as to how these prevailing narrative maps might be challenged and changed.

A model of motivational orientation for youth sport: Some preliminary work

During the past ten years considerable effort has been devoted to developing an understanding of children's experience in sport. The impetus behind this research focus appears to have been twofold. First, the tremendous number of children who participate in organized sports necessitates an understanding of what this participation means in terms of their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. Second, the continuing debate concerning the value of participating in sports has resulted in a large quantity of empirical work on this issue. One aspect of children's experience in sports that has received extensive research attention centers on issues related to motivation (Weiss & Chaumeton, 1992).

Cognitive-affective sources of sport enjoyment in adolescent sport participants

Enjoyment is beginning to receive a resurgence of interest in the sport psychology literature. It has been described as a "positive affective response to the sport experience that reflects generalized feelings such as pleasure, liking, and fun" (Scanlan & Simons, 1992, pp. 203-204). These authors propose that uncovering the diverse origins of sport enjoyment is critical to a comprehensive understanding of positive affect and its relation to prolonged sport involvement. Inherent to their model is the proposition that enjoyment underlies greater commitment to sport. Although the construct has received empirical attention in the past, recent developments in the sport motivational literature suggest that contemporary approaches to the study of sport enjoyment be explored.

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