Sport Development Flashcards

Flashcards about Sport Development

Sport development

Area of exponential growth, aimed at growing the potential of athletes and their communities to affect positive development outcomes.

Sport development

Providing opportunities to engage and grow in different types of physical activity, keeping the aging population active and healthy.

Sport in 19th century elite English public schools

Inculcating moral values, striving for victory, accepting defeat, while health was made secondary.

Early 20th century rise of amateur sport

Participation for its own sake with focus on selflessness and community spirit, viewing sport as a common good.

Sport development as a field

Challenges governments, businesses, and sport organizations to define and value sport for a range of different outcomes beyond winning.

End of 20th century commercialisation of sport

Led to a new system of winning and elite performance, professionalization of sport, and financial commitments by governments.

Development of sport (SD)

Improving sport-related skills, achieving mastery and excellence in sports, usually planned by a national sport organization.

Sport for development (SFD)

Improving sport and other skills through sport for social, cultural, psychological, educational, and economic goals.

Pyramid Model (SD)

A broad base of participation narrows to elite athletes

Balyi’s LTAD model (SD)

Stages of development based on sport specialization (early/late).

Côté and Hay (SD)

Stages tied to age and readiness.

FTEM framework (Gulbin et al.)(SD)

Foundations, Talent, Elite, Mastery (10 stages, no strict age link).

Green’s theory (SD)

Focus on recruitment, retention, and transition strategies

Sotiriadou’s ARTN model (SD)

Attraction, Retention/Transition, Nurturing.

Sport plus (SFD)

Adapting sport for broader social outcomes

Plus sport (SFD)

Using sport mainly as a hook to deliver education or health programs.

ADM

Usa Hockey's American Development Model adhering to LTAD principles by focusing on play, practice, and excelling.

MLB´s RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) Program

SFD program for inner-city youth focused on player/community development.

Globalisation

Interconnected global processes affecting local practices.

Scope

Range of globalisation effects on a worldwide scale.

Intensity

Rate at which global processes are becoming dominant.

Transnationalisation

Connections across borders.

Global-local nexus (model)

Interplay between global institutions and local communities.

SD (Sport Development)

Focus on improving sport systems, performance, and participation.

SFD (Sport for Development)

Uses sport to meet non-sport goals e.g. health, education, peace.

IPC & Agitos Foundation

Promotes inclusive parasport development with a bottom-up approach.

UN (United Nations)

Promotes Sport for Development and Peace (SDP).

IOC (International Olympic Committee)

Champions Olympic values and global sport initiatives.

International federations (IFs)

Set standards and support global sport governance.

“Glocalisation”

Blending global sport norms with local cultures.

Definition of sport development by Sotiriadou

A dynamic process involving stakeholders, strategies, and pathways for attraction, retention/transition, and nurturing of sporting participants.

Sport development pyramid

Talents start at a large base of participants at grass-root levels with development as a linear process

ARTN Model

Framework used to structure how athletes enter and progress within elite sport.

Systems Theory

Elite sport is seen as a coordinated system involving stakeholders, strategies, and athlete outcomes

Non-Linearity of Athlete Development (model)

Sport development isn’t a simple upward pyramid where athletes may exit, re-enter, or change pathways depending on context and opportunity.

LGAs

Local governments are crucial providers and planners of community sport infrastructure.

Programming

Modified sport rules increase participation and enjoyment, especially for children/people with disabilities.

Inter-organisational relationships (IORs)

Strategic partnerships between two or more independent organizations to create shared value.

Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Tools to map and assess relationships in networks, showing central actors, weak ties, cohesion, and network density.

Coopetition

Organizations often collaborate and compete simultaneously especially in leagues.

Predisposing factors

Issues from the start

Precipitating events

Sudden or built-up triggers

Attenuating factors

Things that try to reduce or delay breakdown

AFL New Zealand

Strategic partnerships with schools, clubs, government, broadcasters, and AFL Australia helped grow the sport nationally

The Big Issue Street Soccer

Collaborated with NGOs, football clubs, and public transport to deliver inclusive SFD outcomes for disadvantaged groups.

Coach

Facilitator of athlete learning and development (from grassroots to elite).

Official

Maintains game integrity and ensures rules are followed.

Change Agent

External parties who help communities establish contact, open negotiations, and develop projects for cooperation and sustainable development.

Health Promotion

Enabling people to improve control over their health

Physical Activity

Reduces risk from disease

Social Exclusion

Unequal access to educational, occupational and political opportunities.

Cultural capital

Cultural goods, knowledge, experience, education, competencies and skills that an individual possesses and that confer power or status in society

Bourdieu

Based on class struggles

Coleman

Cooperation of people

Putnam

Public good that binds communities together

Bonding social capital

Homogeneous Groups

Bridging social capital

Relationships of rather different individuals

Linking social capital

Vertical relationships; different social levels

Sport for Development and Peace (SFDP)

Uses sport to build bridges between communities.

Intergroup contact theory

Positive contact between groups reduces prejudice.