Generations: Academic and Athletic Integration of a Southern PWI Basketball Program

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to: (a) analyze the insights and experiences of the 1st African American student-athlete (in basketball) at a prominent predominantly White institution in the Deep South as well as the later insights and experiences of his sons at the same university; and (b) to present a counterstory to the dominant historical rendering of the Civil Rights Movement, the integration of athletics, and the experiences and outcomes of contemporary African American athletes. Method: Using qualitative critical race methodology, investigators conducted and analyzed interviews with the 1st African American to play basketball at a prominent university located in the Deep South and his 2 sons who attended the same university a generation later. Results: Using the lens of critical race theory, the themes conceived from the analysis were the counterstory of agency, counterstorytelling stereotypes, and the salience of everyday racism. Conclusion: Racism is still existent within society, even within college athletics. The holistic success of African American athletes in college is dependent upon their ability to navigate overt and covert racial climates.     

Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities: Empowering South Asian Women through Sport and Physical Activities

The participation of women in sport is significant to socio-economic empowerment in any country. Evidence reveal that although South Asian female athletes are capable of winning medals in the Olympics, a very low percentage of the South Asian female population ever participate actively in sport. The status and circumstances to participate in sport are restricted for many female athletes in South Asia. This paper examined the main factors that influence women's sporting participation in South Asian countries. Data were analysed by using documentary analysis method. This paper analysed a combination of concepts addressing women and sport in South Asia in two ways. Firstly, it emphasises the issues and patterns of women's participation in sport in South Asian countries after the independence from the British Empire. Secondly, it highlights the benefits to South Asian societies of women's participation in sport, but argues why South Asian women are trivialised in sports participation. Results revealed the inequalities and discrimination that constrain women from participating in the South Asian sports sector as personal, social and cultural barriers. Possible solutions are provided to reduce these factors to encourage South Asian women's participation in sport. Success and the implications of South Asian governments’ interventions on women and sport are also discussed. Results of this study revealed the inequalities and discrimination that constrain women from participating in the South Asian sports sector is continuing.     

English Newspaper and Sport: The South China Morning Post's Lawn Bowls Reporting in British Colonial Hong Kong

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) was the most influential English newspaper in the British colony Hong Kong in 1930s. The company staff especially the general manager actively participated in the development of lawn bowls in Hong Kong. In addition, the SCMP became a newspaper with the most frequent lawn bowls reporting in Hong Kong to meet the bowlers’ demand on bowls news. The SCMP portrayed the British identity through lawn bowls reporting on the British Empire Game, lawn bowls matches and British bowlers’ gatherings. The SCMP was also used by bowlers to communicate on lawn bowls competition and activities. At the very beginning, lawn bowls was only a Hong Kong Scottish sport on grassland; the development of lawn bowls in Hong Kong brought well-mowed English Bowling Green. The SCMP attracted the British middle class and elites to play lawn bowls actively in Hong Kong. In other words, the British identity not only caused British bowlers to play lawn bowls in Hong Kong but also created more bowling news for the SCMP, which was an important medium in favouring the British bowlers and preserving British cultural heritage in Hong Kong.     

苏南地区农村体育公共服务供给的有益探索

当前中国农村地区体育公共服务供给是呈差异性存在的,不同地区体育公共服务供给规律不同。采用文献资料法、问卷调查法以及实地调研法以苏南农村地区为例,对发达地区农村体育公共服务供给状况进行了分析,提出了当前苏南地区农村体育公共服务供给的特征,以及供给中产生的问题,最后提出了相关建议。     

岭南民族传统体育文化研究

文章通过查阅相关史料,考察黄飞鸿狮艺武术馆、彭南咏春拳馆、李小龙纪念馆,走访岭南武术和龙狮运动专家、学者,对岭南民族传统体育文化发展研究现状进行深入浅出的分析,通过四个方面文化内涵的挖掘、文化传承与变异、文化保护、文化可持续发展来阐述岭南民族传统体育文化研究基本框架与设想,运用科学发展观破解岭南民族传统体育文化发展难题,为广东建设文化大省提供理论支持。     

南非世界杯国籍问题球员流动趋向的分析

为了解南非世界杯国籍问题球员的流动特征,运用文献法、调查法和统计法对108名有国籍问题的球员进行分析。结果表明:南非世界杯国籍问题球员绝大多数有移民背景,选用国籍问题球员在当今的国际足坛已经是一种普遍现象;国籍问题球员在流动趋向方面体现了输入与回流双向交替的特征;输入与回流球员不仅要考虑技术需要,更要考虑国家或民族认同问题;欧洲足球体系发达国家输入球员是有目的、有计划的,足球发展中国家回流球员最大化地利用了国际足联的国籍新规定。怎样合理地应对国际足联的国籍新规定从而促进我国足球事业的不断发展是本研究的出发点。     

数字人文学科归属及其与图情档关系初探

[目的/意义]在数字人文由单纯的学术热点演化成一门渐进完善的独立学科的同时,关于其学科归属问题并未在学术共同体之间达成共识。[方法/过程]文章从本质目的、内容议题、成果分布、主流趋势四个维度阐述数字人文归属于图书情报与档案管理一级学科的合理性,并以此为基础,厘清数字人文与图书馆学、情报学以及档案学之间的关系,指出四者的核心指向在于知识创新。[结果/结论]文章的最后分别论述了数字人文对于图情档带来的机遇与挑战,并基于“把握机遇,转型升级”和“正面挑战,迎难而上”两个方面针对数字人文与图情档的交叉融合发展提出合理化建议。     

How clicker use facilitates existing pedagogical practices in higher education: data from interdisciplinary research on student response systems

This article identifies how clicker use can support or augment existing principles of good teaching across different disciplines in higher education. While many of these principles will be familiar to instructors, the link between student response system (SRS) use and existing pedagogical methods is still often unclear, even for scholars who are well read in the literature. Functioning as a resource for both novices and instructors who have already incorporated clickers into their courses, this article synthesizes existing literature and offers empirical data from five courses in three disciplines to show how SRSs can be used to support contemporary pedagogical goals. The authors discuss five exemplary practices, providing sample clicker questions along the way, to show how clickers can be used to facilitate active learning in large courses.     

Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement

An experiment examined the extent to which viewers’ death penalty application, perceptions of crime danger, and culpability assessments could be influenced by exposure to a majority of Black suspects in the news or having the race of suspects go unidentified in a newscast. The current study also investigated the extent to which prior news viewing and African American stereotype endorsement might moderate the effects of this racialized crime news exposure. After exposure to a majority of Black suspects or unidentified suspects in a newscast, African American stereotype endorsers were more likely than stereotype rejecters to support the death penalty. Furthermore, heavy television news viewers exposed to a majority of Black suspects were more likely than light news viewers to perceive the world as dangerous and view a race-unidentified suspect as culpable for his offense. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed in light of social cognition theories of priming, cognitive accessibility, stereotype activation and application.     

Schools reaching out: Comprehensive parent involvement in South African primary schools

Abstract

Legislation to reform schooling in a democratic South Africa has focused attention on the rights and responsibilities of parents as empowered stakeholders in education. However, it is argued that comprehensive parent involvement is a prerequisite for improving the culture of teaching and learning in schools. Against the background of a literature review which examines legislation affecting parents, this article draws on a qualitative inquiry of parent involvement in a small sample of public primary schools in South Africa selected by means of purposeful sampling. The findings indicated that the schools were doing more to involve parents than is legally required. Strong leadership from principals together with formal organisation of parent involvement has established parent-friendly schools, regular home-school communication and innovative parent volunteering. Certain reservations to parent involvement were detected in principals' attitudes. The study suggests that, together with enabling legislation, schools can develop valuable initiatives to make parents more active and equal partners.