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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Sport Policy"”.
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Sport policy in Lebanon, 1975 to 2004
… it comes to the evaluation of the position of sport in this society; especially since the Lebanese Government has never considered sport and the betterment of sport among its priorities. Lebanese sport reflects all the different parameters of the Lebanese scene: economic difficulties, …
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An Appraisal of the Implementation Process of Sport Policy in Ghana
To implement policy, the local implementers must find a way to make sense of the goals, assumptions, and expectations associated with the policy and to reconcile them with their own organizational culture. In doing this, problems and conflicts may arise as a result of several factors that seem …
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The "illusion of inclusion"? The role of consultation processes in Canadian sport policy-making
… role of broad-based consultation processes in sport policy formulation using a primarily neo-institutional framework. Specifically, I examine the three factors influencing participation: contextual, institutional and structural forces on consultation. The contextual factors encourage the State …
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Exploring the Experiences of High Performance Canadian Athletes With Mood and/or Anxiety Disorders
… competed for places on Canadian national sports teams. Participants described dealing with stigma, and ultimately, required a break from sport in order to effectively manage their illness. A need for education regarding mood/anxiety disorders and greater access to psychologists were …
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Positive Futures for Serbian Sport
… for ‘positive futures’ in and through sport in Serbia. It critically explores the social significance of established and emerging sports—football (grassroots programme) and rugby league—in the challenging social context of Serbian society via the theoretical prism of social capital. …
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"We're the One's Working on the Ground, the 'Real' Ground": Exploring Tensions and Realities of Global South SFD NGOs in Fostering 'Safe Sport' Environments for Children and Youth
… raised about the safety of children and youth in sport (Kerr et al., 2020). As such, many global sport organizations have been implementing safe sport policies and frameworks, such as the International Safeguards for Children in Sport, to protect children and youth from abuse and maltreatment …
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‘So proved themselves supreme in women’s hockey throughout the world’: a history of English and British international women’s hockey 1951–2016
… network of associations and federations. The sport was also proudly amateur and the All England Women’s Hockey Association (AEWHA) expected their representatives to uphold that ethos. At the same time, women’s hockey had benefited from a new British government policy on education, and the lack …
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Youth sport in Trinidad and Tobago: Extending the possibilities and pathways for post-secondary school participation
Sport in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) emerged out of centuries of occupation by different colonisers becoming more entrenched through the influences of the British. Continued but intermittent successes at the international level have led to increasing attention being directed to youth sport …
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Researching British university sport initiations
The study of sport initiations is in its infancy. So far, the North American-centric research has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable initiation activities, which are referred to as hazing. Hazing moral panics in North America has resulted in universities utilising sport …
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An evaluation of the Black Country in Motion: a community led intervention for the engagement of hard to reach, physically inactive communities of the Black Country
… and the Community Volunteer - With current sport policy rhetoric including volunteering and the voluntary sectors impact on sport and physical activity delivery. This thesis examines community volunteering. One hundred and forty-four volunteers were recruited for the delivery of physical …
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Governance strategies towards organising for action sports: A national structure for New Zealand skateboarding
… the processes and politics involved in the sportisation and institutionalisation of skateboarding in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In 2016, the IOC announced that skateboarding would debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and its governance was given to the ISF World Skate (i.e. a partnership between the …