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Youth Sport Development Flashcards

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What are the benefits of Youth Sport Participation according to (Youth sport trust, 2022)?

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  • Physical (strengthens muscles and bones, increases cardiovascular fitness)
  • Brain function (stimulates growth in parts of brain for learning and memory)
  • Psychological (lower anxiety and depression and stress, higher self esteem and confidence, improved mood)
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According to Holt (2020) what is Positive Youth Development (PYD) and what are the 5Cs?

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  • Views all youth as having resources to be developed
  • 5Cs, Competence, Confidence, Character, Caring, Connection
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According to Holt (2020) why is PYD through sport useful?

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  • Facilitates youth development via experiences and processes to enable personal and social life skills and physical competencies
  • PYD can be applied both to recreational and performance levels
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According to (Sport England, 2018) why is Social class an issue in youth sport participation?

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  • Due to parent’s class position, social background
  • 39% of children in least affluent families do fewer than 30 mins of activity a day, compared to 26% in affluent families
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According to (Sport England, 2021) give information on Race/ethnicity being an issue in youth sport participation

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Black children least likely to be active (36%)

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What is Fleming’s (2016) view on issues in youth sport participation?

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  • Youth sport experiences shaped differently by race, racism and ethnicity
  • Policies and practices to table racism in youth sport often failed to address centrality of racism in the experiences of young people from minority groups (e.g. tokenism)
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Why do girls participate less in physical/sporting activity according to (Corr et al., 2019)?

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  • Internal/psychological/relational factors
  • School environments influence girls’ attitudes to PE and PA
  • Wider societal/structural factors (under representation of female sports in media, lack of role models)
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Initiatives to promote girls’ sport participation?

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  • Title IX (USA)
  • This Girl Can (UK)
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What is the Title IX (USA)?

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  • A federal law in the USA
  • To prohibit discrimination based on sex in educational institutes
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What is the This Girl Can (UK) initiative? (SPORT England, 2021)

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  • Invested by the national lottery and Exchequer funding
  • Objectives: increase the number of girls participating, change how they feel about sporting experiences, change the opportunities available to women
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What does (Coakley, 2016) say about criticisms of why programs are not delivering PYD?

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  • Programs don’t focus on the 6th “C” - contribute (to the community)
  • Uses subjective measures such as self-esteem and confidence
  • programs deviating from original conceptions of PYD in poor and ethnic minorities
  • Programs not tackling community development, social change or making efforts to foster equality
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What does (Coakley, 2016) say are the challenges of integrating PYD into sports?

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  • Program leaders believe playing the sport itself leads to PYD without doing anything else
  • Program leaders resist change
  • Coaches have a lot of power over athletes making it harder for athletes to make choice to engage with the wider community
  • Youth sport becomes privatised and focuses too heavily on financial success
  • In US in particular there are a lack of coaching education programmes
  • Lack of affordable programs for young people
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What does (Coakley, 2016) say about the future of PYD through sport/what needs to happen?

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  • Research positive benefits of different sports programs
  • Focus on building young athlete’s engagement and contribution to the community
  • Consider how sports programs can tackle inequality as part of developing PYD
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What does (Gould, 2019) say about how youth sport has changed in the last 40 years?

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  • Talent development and winning now much more important
  • More youth sports programs than ever before but geared more towards the gifted youth
  • More professionalised and expensive
  • More parent involvement
  • More media coverage
  • Growth in sport science and medical research on young athletes
  • More business minded, lots of money involved
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What does (Gould, 2019) say are the critical issues in youth sport today?

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  • Physically based issues
  • Psychological issues
  • Access and structural issues
  • Sport culture issues
  • Adult involvement issues
  • Economic issues
  • Government and legislative issues
  • Translational-science and program-evaluation issues
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Authors needed to quote for week 6 (8 authors)

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(Youth Sport Trust, 2022)
(Holt, 2020)
(Sport England, 2018)
(Sport England, 2021)
(Fleming, 2016)
(Corr et al., 2019)
(Coakley, 2016) Article 1
(Gould, 2019) Article 2

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