scholarly journals Facilitating Sustainable Outcomes for the Organization of Youth Sports through Youth Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2101
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Strittmatter ◽  
Dag Vidar Hanstad ◽  
Berit Skirstad
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Organized Sports ◽  
Sport Events

The aim of this study was to explore how a youth sport development programme in connection with a major event may facilitate sustainable outcomes for the organization of youth sports in Norway. The context of the study involved the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports’ initiative to increase young people’s engagement within Norwegian organized sports. The result of the initiative was the Young Leaders Programme (YLP) in connection with the 2016 Lillehammer Youth Olympic Games. Young people’s perceptions of the YLP, as well as how these perceptions relate to its implementation, are evaluated to determine the extent to which the programme may make a difference to sustainable youth engagement in organized sports. Qualitative data were generated through interviews with 16 YLP participants, aged 16–20, and five implementing agents. Applying the framework of processes affecting sustainability, the study shows how certain forms of sustainability can be enhanced while constraining other forms at the same time. The findings highlight that project design and implementation play a more crucial role in creating organizational sustainability than in creating individual sustainability. Furthermore, we were able to reveal that the engagement of young people in sport events as volunteers fosters individual sustainability, of which sport organizations and sporting communities should take advantage by providing arenas where young people can re-engage in sport organizations and thus contribute as change agents to a sustainable organization for youth sports.

RAISE IT UP!! Youth Arts and Awareness

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Thomas-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Creative Self

RAISE IT UP! Youth Arts and Awareness (RIU) is an organization that promotes youth engagement, expression, and empowerment through the use of performance and literary arts and social justice activism. We envision a world where youth are fully recognized, valued, and supported as artist-activists and emerging thought leaders, working to create a world that is just, intersectional, and inclusive. Two fundamental tenets shape RIU’s policies, practices, and pedagogy. The first is that creative self-expression and culture making are powerful tools for personal and social transformation. The second is that social justice is truly possible only if and when we are willing to have transparent and authentic conversations about the oppression children experience at the hands of the adults in their lives. We are committed to amplifying youth voices and leadership and building cross-generational solidarity among people of all ages, particularly those impacted by marginalization. Though RIU is focused on and driven by the youth, a large part of our work includes helping adult family members, educators, and community leaders understand the ways in which systemic oppression shapes our perceptions of and interactions with the young people in our homes, neighborhoods, institutions, and decision-making bodies.

Youth Sport Participation and Withdrawal: Is It Simply a Matter of FUN?

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Petlichkoff
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Organized Sports ◽  
Youth Sport Participation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Athletic Footwear

In 1990 the Athletic Footwear Association (AFA) (1) released a report entitled “American Youth and Sports Participation” that examined teenagers’ (ages 10-18 years) feelings about their sport involvement. This report was the culmination of an extensive study of more than 10,000 young people from 11 cities across the U.S. in which issues related to why teenagers participate, why they quit, and their feelings about winning were addressed.1 The results highlighted in the AFA report indicate that (a) participation in organized sports declines sharply as youngsters get older, (b) “fun” is the key reason for involvement and “lack of fun” is one of the primary reasons for discontinuing, (c) winning plays less of a role than most adults would think, and (d) not all athletes have the same motivations for their involvement.

scholarly journals Departicipation of Youth in Agricultural Sector (Case Study at Delanggu Village, Delanggu, Klaten)

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
D Dilahur ◽  
U Umrotun ◽  
P Priyono ◽  
Choirul Amin ◽  
M. Farid Aminudin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Quantitative Data Analysis ◽  
Quota Sampling

This study is carried out in Delanggu, Klaten, that has high productivity of rice but undergoing a decrease in the role of the sector of agriculture. The goal of this study is to observe young people departicipation in the sector od agriculture and fators that influence it. The method used is survey method. The population is all of the young people in Delanggu, 1.419 peoples. The sampling uses stratified proporsional quota sampling where respondents are divided into three groups of age, 15-19 years old, 20-24 years old, and 25-29 years old. Every sampling in eah group is taken 5% proportionally, with its homogenates consideration, while the characteristic, which has determined in order to fulfil the number of determined quota in each age group. Collected data is presented in the form of frequency and cross table. Qualitative data analysis uses logical thought, deducyive-inductive, analogy ang comparison, whereas analyzing frequency and cross table uses quantitative data analysis. The use of both analysis is adjusted to the data and goal of the study.

scholarly journals “What young people think matters; a qualitative approach to the study of protective factors for mental well-being”

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Trajectories Of Change ◽  
One Year ◽  
Mental Well Being

This blog shares findings from a new study comprising of two parts. Part one outlines a typology of profiles of adolescent reported protective factors in relation to mental well-being and the risk of mental disorder, using qualitative data. Part two applied the typology to identify trajectories of change in type membership occurring over one year, based on adolescent reports.

EXPRESS: Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics: The threat of high stakes organizations in precarious times

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872672110546
Author(s):  
Amy Way
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Young People ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Sports Organizations

In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young people. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to understanding sexual violence as an organizational, rather than individual phenomenon. The power organizations have to inflict violence on their members requires an understanding of the increased role of organizations in our decision-making and the shaping of our values and desires. Through an analysis of testimonies submitted by the women who were victimized by Nassar as children, I argue that violence was intentionally deployed as an organizational strategy by USA Gymnastics. Abusive organizational practices traumatized girls, leading them to recalibrate their expectations for what was normal and acceptable, ultimately facilitating their abuse. I propose ‘high stakes organizations’ as contexts particularly vulnerable to violent organizational practices. I argue that in these high stakes organizations, trauma is likely to be deployed as a strategy for organizational commitment, further fostering precarity in modern organizations.

scholarly journals Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging Children in Urban Planning: A Case Study in Tirol Town, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Bruno de Andrade ◽  
Alenka Poplin ◽  
Ítalo Sousa de Sena
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
Game Environment ◽  
New Research ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Culture Of Planning

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of Minecraft’s game environment for urban planning with older and younger children in a public school in Tirol town, Brazil. Minecraft is employed as an innovative tool to tackle the present lack of engagement and involvement of key societal actors such as children and young people in urban planning. Thus, how can games support children to co-design their future city? Which heritage values do they represent graphically in the game environment? Geogames are games that provide a visualization of a real spatial context and in this study, Minecraft is the tool which we use to explore youth engagement. We designed two experiments, which tested Minecraft as a geogame environment for engaging young people in urban planning. These experiments were conducted with children, who emerged as active emancipated actors to bring their values to the planning practice. The playtesting results revealed the potential of Minecraft to keep children engaged in the design workshop, as well as their relevant ludic ability to co-create walkable, green, and interactive places. New research questions arose about the potential of creating a culture of planning among children in order to motivate other social actors to share responsibilities for sustainable development and management.

Young People and Everyday Democracy

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
James Sloam
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
State Relations ◽  
College Educated

This chapter poses the question of how young people can be engaged politically both during and between elections. It begins with a discussion of the role of contact and interactions between citizens and policymakers in contemporary democracies, which spring from civic republican conceptions of good and active citizens. It asserts that the civic republican models of citizen-to-state relations are unlikely to work without the intensification of policy engagement at a local level. While small-scale, everyday democracy is a promising pathway to political engagement, contact with politicians and public officials has been overwhelmingly the preserve of those who are predominantly middle-aged, college-educated and financially well-off. To raise the involvement of young people, any localized approach to youth engagement must be scaffolded by political and social institutions: primarily, local government, schools and universities. The chapter goes on to consider the performance of a number of local and national initiatives to engage younger citizens in the policy process and reflect upon the lessons from these experiences.

Just why do we need school libraries? Some ideas from students

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 140-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kenneth Shenton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Personal Interests ◽  
Frequency Counts ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the purposes of school libraries as they are viewed by teenagers attending a high school in northern England. Design/methodology/approach – The work is based on qualitative data contributed by 245 youngsters. Their material was coded inductively and frequency counts were generated in order to determine the balance of the data in relation to individual themes. Findings – Typically, the school library was understood as an area that made available books either for pleasure reading or academic purposes. No participant referred either to the work of librarians or to the value of libraries in enabling the user to find information in support of personal interests. Research limitations/implications – The research took place in only one school and it may well have been the case that many students who were apathetic towards school libraries simply declined the opportunity to participate in the work. Practical implications – Although the attitudes of the young people who contributed data were to an overwhelming degree constructive, key gaps were evident in their awareness of the potential of a school library. These are best rectified by managers developing their facility in such a way that it serves to demonstrate effectively to students the roles that the school library can play in a diversity of situations. Originality/value – Much of the published literature dealing with the purposes of school libraries and the prerequisites necessary to ensure their effectiveness pays little regard to the ideas of young people themselves. This paper goes some way towards remedying the deficiency.

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