Test 2 Flashcards
When did organized sports emerge?
20th century, post ww2
Goal of first sports programs
Masculinizing boys
preparation for future success
ignoring girls interests
Increasing professionalism
- Increase in both parents working outside the home
- definition of “good parent”
- informal activities = trouble
- belief world is dangerous for kids
Youth sports sponsors
- public, tax support
- public, non-profit
- private, non-profit
- private, commercial clubs
Parental involvement
- children are “products”
- children success reaffirms parental moral worth
- thus, parents take it seriously and assertively advocate the interest of their kids
Elite training programs
- private and expensive
- rewards through sport
- kids “work” long hours
- ethical issues in adult-child relationship
Alternative sports
- opposite of structured adult controlled programs
- desire to be expressive and spontaneous
- high injury rates
Formal experience
Systematic
set positions
status and outcomes
Informal experience
Action
personal involvement
challenge
reaffirming friendships
Formal outcomes
Relationship with authority figure
learn rules and strategies
rule governed teamwork
4 Informal outcomes
Interpersonal decision making skills
cooperation
improvisation
problem solving
When are kids ready for organized sport?
- learn how to cooperate
- third party perspective
6 essentials to a good learning environment
1) safe exploration
2) self pacing
3) agent responsive - immediate and relevant feedback
4) discovery of underlying principles
5) autotelic - self rewarding
6) encourage leader-follower roles
What children learn in these environments
- self-understanding
- competition
- experience in anxiety situations
- safely express aggression
- controlling emotions
- rules and logic
- social relationship
- morals
D 1 programs
- athletic scholarships
- huge time and energy commitments
- academic demands accommodated
- economic consequences are huge
- likely to be separated from student body
