Tag: SSSF

Christian Tolstrup Jensen’s paper analyses the development of the sport event policy in the case of Denmark, a small, Western country with no mega sport event hosting experience. Based on an analysis of archival documents, media coverage and interviews with representatives of sport federations, municipalities, and the organisations carrying out the event policy, the paper traces the start of the policy to 1994 when the Danish sport confederation (DIF) founded the Sports Foundation Denmark.

In this peer review article Henrik Fürst proposes a reassessment of the concept of talent and offers tools for a conceptual and methodological shift in the study of talent identification in sports. Drawing on American pragmatism, specifically the pragmatic maxim, the article aims to clarify the concept of talent in talent identification that makes an athlete open for selection. The article organizes, presents, and discusses existing research on talent identification and highlights the need for a conceptual reevaluation.

In 2017, the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) decided to offer the men’s and the women’s national teams an equal share of the revenue from the federation’s sponsorship deals. This was regarded as a groundbreaking event in the history of women’s football. This peer review article by Arve Hjelseth and Jorid Hovden examines the process that led to this result by exploring the discourses of gender justice negotiated in the process.

This study by Ove Olsen Sæle, Åse Nylenna Akslen and Cecilie Ristesund thoroughly examines how a selection of Norwegian male teachers in upper-secondary school perceive and practise fair play in teaching. The study’s research question asks how fair play is perceived and practised by a selection of physical education teachers in upper-secondary school. In the discussion of its findings, the study considers Sheridan’s conceptualisation of fair play, which employs seven perspectives on fair play that take the term ‘ethos’ as a key concept.

Syftet med den här studien av Inger Eliasson och Jesper Fundberg var att genom en fallstudie analysera iscensättning och erfarenheter av en pedagogisk intervention genomförd med pojkar aktiva i lagidrott i Sverige, vilken syftade till att förändra problematisk maskulinitet i det svenska samhället. Fallstudien är av etnografisk karaktär där en autentisk utbildningsprocess följs och studeras genom observationer, intervjuer och dokument.

Hensikten med studien av Odd Lennart Vikene, Reidun Nerhus Fretland, Sylvia Hole og Helga Synnevåg Løvoll er å utforske hvordan ny teknologi i form av appen Georeg har innvirkning på turgåingen. Analysen av intervjumaterialet identifiserte fire overordnede temaer: 1) fra trimbok til app, 2) hvordan appen regulerer og former, 3) appen skaper motstridende følelser og 4) når teknologien tar styring. Funnene illustrerer både positive og negative sider ved bruk av app og en tydelig ambivalens kommer til uttrykk.

Våren 2022 ble det foreslått endringer i Idrettstingets sammensetning, og med bakgrunn i endringen i tingsammensetningen er formålet med denne studien å undersøke hvem som deltar og hva som påvirker interessen for deltakelse på idrettskretsting. Studien av Anne Tjønndal, Martine Limstrand og Siv Stavang Aune baserer seg på en spørreundersøkelse av idrettslag i Nordland, kombinert med en kvantitativ innholdsanalyse av protokoller fra Nordland idrettskretsting i perioden 2016-2022.

Motivation is important for enjoyment, skill development, and persistence in swimming. The quality and direction of motivation is influenced by a swimmer’s perceived motivational climate, which is created by coaches and parents. The theoretical framework in this study by Ingeborg Ljødal and colleagues combines self-determination theory and achievement goal theory, to analyze the motives and motivation of swimmers and the influence of social climate on their motivation.

While autonomous municipalities in western societies have become responsible for the implementation of national sport policy, the diversity of local decision-makers’ policy interests presents significant challenges. Building on an institutional approach based on Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy, the problem is addressed in this study by Anna Lee and colleagues, by investigating local political and administrative top decision-makers’ support of the Sports Act guidelines for child and youth sport in Finland.

Using an institutionalist approach, this paper by Mihaly Szerovay examines the changing logics in the organisational field of Finnish sport clubs. More specifically, the utilisation of physical spaces by sport clubs is investigated. The article has implications for identifying the necessary skills in a sport club for sports federations and institutes educating practitioners. The findings may be useful for those involved in facility development as well. The paper has shown that the use of spaces by sport clubs reflects the logics of the organisational field.