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Relational intersection of youth sport participation and identity development [PDF]

Youth sport has continued to grow in attraction, particularly in the United States. Many youth, at younger and younger ages, are entering the confines of sport yet expansive research is still lacking in fully exploring the many facets that are a part of ...
Casey, Taylor Breann Moore
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The School Sport Co-ordinator Programme: Changing the Role of the Physical Education Teacher? [PDF]

, 2003
Over the last decade or so, young people have increasingly become a focus of UK sport policy. Fuelled in part by concerns such as the increasing levels of childhood inactivity and obesity, and the lack of international success in sport, a plethora of ...
Anne Flintoff, BALL S.J., BOWE R., BROWN D., CLAY G., COAKLEY J., DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (DfES), DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, EVANS J., EVANS J., EVANS J., EVANS J., FLINTOFF A., FLINTOFF A., GERTWITZ S., HARRIS J., HENDLEY K., MACDONALD D., MURDOCK L., PENNEY D., ROBSON S., ROWE N., SPARKES A., SPORT ENGLAND, VERMA G.   +26 more
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An Examination of the Latent Structure and Reproducibility of the Life Skills Scale for Sport in Botswana and Ghana

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
With the growing interest in sport-based positive youth development (PYD) programs across the African continent, there is a need to establish suitable measures to evaluate the success of these programs in fostering PYD.
Leapetswe Malete, Chelsi Ricketts, Sehee Kim, Tshepang Tshube, Thuso Mphela, Clement Adamba, Reginald Ocansey   +6 more
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Emphasizing Sportsmanship in Youth Sport [PDF]

, 2016
This essay will examine the shift in cultural norms and social expectations surrounding youth sport and how emphases on sportsmanship in youth sport programs can help salvage some of the wholesome values sought after by parents when signing up their ...
Harrison, Todd
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Examining the Impact of the Funding System on Organized Youth Sport in Portugal: Implications for Research and Practice

Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación
The purpose of this critical commentary is to provide insights about the impact of funding structures on youth sport research and programming, with a particular focus on research priorities and access to quality youth sport experiences across ...
Marta Ferreira, Fernando Santos, Dina Miragaia, Dimas Pinto, Tarkington Newman, Meredith Whitley   +5 more
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Youth sport: Friend or Foe? [PDF]

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2019
Participation in youth sport has been promoted as part of a healthy lifestyle, with benefits for physical fitness, social development, and mental wellbeing. Yet, sport carries an inherent risk of injury, which for young athletes may have both immediate and long-term consequences.
Sean P. Cumming, Tracy Blake, Carly McKay, Carly McKay   +3 more
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Are we retaining our Maori talent? : representative youth netballers : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education at Massey University [PDF]

, 2007
A case study research method was employed to address the question of retention for Māori youth netballers. Despite the fact that young Māori are well populated in the junior age groups of representative netball, a decline at the senior representative ...
McCausland-Durie, Yvette
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EVALUATION OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FIELDS CULTURE, CAPABILITY, INFORMATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES OF YOUTH AND SPORT OFFICES OF WEST AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE [PDF]

, 2013
Management has a significant importance in sport organizations, specially, if it is accompanied with a strategic and program-oriented approach. Now in this progressing and developing world sport is not an exception, and many sport organizations are in ...
Hasan Mohamadzadeh, Mehrdad Hefzollesan, Mir Mohammad Kashef, Roba Yadollahzadeh   +3 more
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Measuring sport experiences in children and youth to better understand the impact of sport on health and positive youth development: designing a brief measure for population health surveys

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Despite the proliferation of studies examining youth sport participation, there are significant gaps in knowledge regarding the impact of youth sport participation on health and development.
John Cairney, Heather J. Clark, Matthew Y.W. Kwan, Mark Bruner, Katherine Tamminen   +4 more
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Placement of inertial measurement units in Racket Sports: Perceptions of coaches for IMU use during training and competition

International Journal of Racket Sports Science, 2021
While inertial measurement units (IMU) have become an integral part of sports performance analysis, upper body-mounted IMUs have been found to exhibit poor reliability in measuring lower-limb loading.
Matthew James Wylde, Nur Adilah Masismadi, Low Chee Yong, Andrew James Callaway, Jonathan Mark Williams   +4 more
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