‘Rallying’ for Change: Examining the Engagement of Pre-Adolescents, Schools, A Community Partnerships Through Triple-Ball Volleyball Using and Appreciative Lens
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description: Elementary schools are of critical importance in our society. While their legislated mandate is to teach curricular outcomes to the youth who attend, these institutions are also being asked to do much more. Society continues to rely on schools to provide many student and community needs, particularly where physical activities, athletic achievement, and social development are concerned (Larsen et al., 2013). Community leaders and youth advocates are asking the publicly-funded school system to help ensure that youth receive the activity and education that they need to remain healthy in the long-term (PHE Canada, 2013). This study was done by creating a “Triple-Ball” volleyball league for pre-adolescent female youth aged eleven to thirteen to participate in, intended not only to create age-appropriate programming, but also to examine the pursuits of this study. The purpose of this study is centred on identifying the practices, resources and people that were essential for a new, volunteer-driven extracurricular physical activity program (Triple-Ball volleyball) to thrive at the elementary school level. An Appreciative Inquiry approach was utilized (Watkins et al., 2011) to guide data collection and analysis. This qualitative methodology uses stakeholder feedback to analyze the context at present, and reimagine what could be if learnings are capitalized on. In its inaugural season (2014), this “Triple-Ball” league’s administrative team consisted of the author of this research, in the role of teacher, graduate student researcher, and league/schedule coordinator. Additionally, this work relied heavily on a professor with the University of Regina’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, as well as a program coordinator with SaskVolleyball. From May through to August of 2014, monthly meetings and daily emails between each other and various stakeholders put the administrative team in position to design a truly community-focused opportunity for pre-adolescent female studen…
abstract: Elementary schools are of critical importance in our society. While their legislated mandate is to teach curricular outcomes to the youth who attend, these institutions are also being asked to do much more. Society continues to rely on schools to provide many student and community needs, particularly where physical activities, athletic achievement, and social development are concerned (Larsen et al., 2013). Community leaders and youth advocates are asking the publicly-funded school system to help ensure that youth receive the activity and education that they need to remain healthy in the long-term (PHE Canada, 2013). This study was done by creating a “Triple-Ball” volleyball league for pre-adolescent female youth aged eleven to thirteen to participate in, intended not only to create age-appropriate programming, but also to examine the pursuits of this study. The purpose of this study is centred on identifying the practices, resources and people that were essential for a new, volunteer-driven extracurricular physical activity program (Triple-Ball volleyball) to thrive at the elementary school level. An Appreciative Inquiry approach was utilized (Watkins et al., 2011) to guide data collection and analysis. This qualitative methodology uses stakeholder feedback to analyze the context at present, and reimagine what could be if learnings are capitalized on. In its inaugural season (2014), this “Triple-Ball” league’s administrative team consisted of the author of this research, in the role of teacher, graduate student researcher, and league/schedule coordinator. Additionally, this work relied heavily on a professor with the University of Regina’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, as well as a program coordinator with SaskVolleyball. From May through to August of 2014, monthly meetings and daily emails between each other and various stakeholders put the administrative team in position to design a truly community-focused opportunity for pre-adolescent female studen…
author: Goby, Benjamin James
language: en
date published: 2020-10
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:03:47Z
provider: University of Regina
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina

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value: https://hdl.handle.net/10294/14331

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value: 10.82465/4912