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Towards a New Logic of Sport Practice for Children: A Case Study of a “Sport for All” School Programme in Sweden
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Health Sciences (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8717-8519
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Health Sciences (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9435-5683
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Educational Studies (from 2013). (CSL)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2872-4102
2013 (English)In: The Swedish Journal of Sport Research, ISSN 2001-6018, Vol. 1, p. 4-25Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this article is to study children and engaged adults’ experiences of participating in a Sport for All Programme in school (SAP). Fifteen individual interviews were conducted with one programme manager, three schoolteachers, two sport club leaders, and nine children (five girls and four boys aged 9-10). Bourdieu’s (1990) as well as Lave and Wenger’s (1991) theoretical models were used as the analytic tools to study the SAP. The analysis reveals that the organization and the practice of the activities are noticeably related to conventionally organized sport. The analysis also shows that the SAP is a new way of organizing and practicing children’s sport – with its own logic. The absence of organized competition, the less intensive activities, the greater flexibility and variation in the SAP appear to challenge the conscious and unconscious idea of the meaning and function of competitive sport, especially in children’s sport. Thus, the SAP concept calls for a new way of approaching children’s sport, and new demands on those who organize and lead the activities.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013. Vol. 1, p. 4-25
Keywords [en]
Interviews, school sport, after-school care, sport clubs, extracurricular physical activity
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work; Sports Science; Comparative Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-32162OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-32162DiVA, id: diva2:719634
Available from: 2014-05-26 Created: 2014-05-26 Last updated: 2020-05-07Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. ”Det är halvidrott, kanske lite mer än halvidrott”: Idrottsskolan som en praktik för formandet av idrottsbarndomar
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Det är halvidrott, kanske lite mer än halvidrott”: Idrottsskolan som en praktik för formandet av idrottsbarndomar
2015 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
“It’s like half-sport, maybe even a bit more than half-sport” : The sport for all programme in school - a practice forming sport childhoods
Abstract [en]

The aim of the dissertation was to investigate children’s views on and experiences of The Sport for All programme in school (SAP) (idrottsskolor) and the significance of the activities for children’s ”sports childhood”.

The study is anchored in the so-called “new sociology of childhood”. Such a standpoint is based on that children are competent social actors with agency. Following that, childhood is constructed both by actors in specific fields and by the children in these social practices.

The dissertation is based on three interview studies from three different SAPs. In study I fifteen individual interviews were conducted with: the programme manager, three school teachers, two sport club leaders and nine children (aged 9-10). Study II was based on repeated focus group interviews with 15 ten-year-old Swedish children participating in a SAP. In study III individual interviews were conducted with eight children, four years after they completed their participation in a SAP.

 

In all three studies the children described the SAP as a different sport practice in relation to traditional organized sport. In the SAP sport was offered in a new context with other meanings and functions compared to conventionally organized sport. But, study II showed that children with a strong performance ethos had the capacity to influence and control the practice in the SAP, which contribute to a “competitive atmosphere” in the SAP activities. Further, study III showed that children with a weak interest in sport enjoyed the activities. However, it was not something this certain group of children wanted to continue to practice outside the program. While other participants with an already established interest in sports, experienced a deepening and widening of their sport interest through the SAP.

In terms of agency, the children’s individual and collective views of sport are important to consider in regard to understanding the SAP practice. The children brought prior knowledge, understanding and skills into the SAP, which can contribute to the experience of the practice.   

Abstract [sv]

I Sverige domineras barns idrottande av den organiserade föreningsidrotten. Samtidigt har det under senare år framkommit att idrottsföreningarna tappar medlemmar. Det finns också en kritik i samhället mot att föreningarna bedriver en verksamhet enbart för de bästa barnen och inte för barnens bästa. Riksidrottsförbundet och staten har sett ett behov av att utveckla alternativa verksamheter för att den organiserade föreningsidrotten ska behålla sin position i samhället. En del i att utveckla idrotten är att organisera idrottsskolor, där barn under lekfulla former ska få prova på olika idrotter. Det har saknats kunskap om hur barn upplever idrottsskolor. Avhandlingens syfte är att öka kunskapen om och fördjupa förståelsen för barns upplevelser av idrottsskolan och verksamhetens betydelse för barns idrottande. Studien tar stöd i vad som kallas för den ”nya” barndomssociologin, vilket innebär att barnet sätts i centrum som en aktiv agent i de sociala processerna.

Avhandlingen bygger på tre intervjustudier av tre skilda idrottsskolor, innefattande individuella intervjuer med barn och deltagande vuxna, fokusgruppsintervjuer med barn och individuella intervjuer med barn fyra år efter att de avslutat sin medverkan i en idrottsskola. Resultatet från studierna analyseras och diskuteras utifrån frågan om idrottsskolor är för alla barn, och vad det kan betyda att vara med i en idrottsskola. Utmaningen i framtida satsningar ligger i att utveckla idrottsskolor utifrån barns skilda syn på och upplevelser av idrott.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2015. p. 76
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 53
Keywords
Sport clubs, Extra-curricular sport, Childrens sport, Sociology of childhood, Communities of Practice, Sport Capital, Idrottsföreningar, Skola, Barndomssociologi, idrottskapital, praktikgemenskaper, Intervjuer
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-38344 (URN)978-91-7063-672-1 (ISBN)
Public defence
2015-12-11, Nyqvistsalen, 9c 203, 65188 Karlstad, Karlstads universitet, 13:00
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Available from: 2015-11-23 Created: 2015-11-09 Last updated: 2019-07-12Bibliographically approved

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