Tag: youth sports

We encourage a broad interpretation of how sport and play are defined, inviting scholars whose work includes topics of embodied learning, institutional or structural components of sport and play, imagination, action and acting, adventure, competition, leisure and recreation, and other forms of physical activity. We especially encourage contributions that develop ideas regarding diversity within sport and play, including but not limited to gender, race, and ability. We invite original research articles (4,000 words max, excluding references) that address this issue’s theme.

We are expecting submissions that counter the idea that positive development occurs simply through sport programs providing spaces where youth who have been othered can temporarily avoid the environments that place them at a disadvantage, or “stay out of trouble.” And we seek work that enacts discourse and informs theory to examine the problematic focus on the individual navigation of discriminatory systems as developmental. We encourage submissions that not only challenge the field to examine the sociopolitical environment youth inhabit, but also demonstrate how scholars can engage in the transformation of the field.

Christian Tolstrup Jensen, PhD, is a sports historian affiliated with Malmö University where he currently works as a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Sport Sciences. His current research focuses on sports events, but his interest in sport studies is varied and wide: Danish and Scandinavian sport history ranging from Norwegian ice hockey to Danish football; youth history and culture, and especially the history of the scout movement. An ongoing project revolves around sport events and their role and position in the Nordic countries.

Målet med doktorgradsprosjektet er å avdekke ulike psykososiale risiko- og beskyttelsesfaktorer egnet til å påvirke unge utøveres usunne helsevalg innen idrett. Eksempler på slike er bruk av smertestillende preparater, kosttilskudd, doping og fortsatt deltakelse i trening og konkurranse til tross for skade. Prosjektet er forankret i en sosial-kognitiv teoriramme der vi utforsket en rekke beskyttende og risikofremmende personlige og kontekstuelle faktorer forbundet med usunne helsevalg.

The inaugural National Youth Sport Conference 2023 is a comprehensive two-day program for academic researchers, Higher Degree Research students, industry organisations and government delegates to exchange new knowledge and enhance the developmental, social, political, psychological and performative dimensions of youth sport. Our conference theme is 'Increasing benefits and decreasing risks'.

Children and youth sport involve many adult actors, not least family members. Parents and guardians are involved in children and youth sport both at amateur and elite level, as coaches, instructors, referees, and audiences. The aim of this special issue is to examine the intersection of parenthood and sport from several theoretical perspectives, geographical areas and methodologies. We welcome submissions from various research themes regarding parenthood and sport.

We encourage submissions from early career researchers as well as established researchers. Please note that the Nordic arena is not an exclusionary geography for the papers to be considered. Furthermore, contributors should keep in mind that organised sport for youth is in focus of this special issue, which does not of course exclude that attention can be given among others to children’s rights. We prefer submissions that take an interdisciplinary approach and include attention both to minority and majority youth.

Mads Skauge, frequent contributor to idrottsforum.org from early on in his PhD education, as a book reviewer, blogger and writer of a number of feature articles, has completed his dissertation, which is about social inequality in organised youth sport participation and the rise of fitness gyms. The inequality dimensions analysed are gender, social class and ethnicity with the aim to contribute to the understanding of inequality in sport and fitness participation.

Mange idrettsskadar – og faren for å få dei – blir oversett av trenarar. For å kutte skadar og fråfall, må treninga tilpassast meir etter vekst og modning enn det ein gjer i dag. Det er hovudkonklusjonen i doktoravhandlinga som Eirik Halvorsen Wik skal forsvare. I arbeidet sitt har han følgt tenåringsutøvarar på elitenivå ved Aspire Academy i Qatar sin hovudstad Doha over dei siste fire åra. Aspire Academy er eit «nasjonalt toppidrettsgymnas» for gutar der friidrett og fotball er dei største idrettane.

Welcome to the 10th International Symposium on Youth Sport in Ljubljana or on-line. The main goal of the Youth Sport 2021 conference is to discuss on role of youth sport for society recovery after COVID-19 Pandemic. Exchanging findings and good practices on various aspects of youth sport will be an excellent platform for participants to discuss various topics. The conference is set as a complementary event to celebrate Slovenia’s presidency of the Council of EU.