Resource utilisation and power relations of community sport clubs in the aftermath of natural disasters

Community sport clubs (CSCs) provide a number of benefits to local communities, while confronting challenges with finances and staffing. In Queensland, Australia, these challenges have been compounded by recent natural disasters including widespread flooding that have significantly impacted operations of CSCs. The current research explores the provision of resources to CSCs in the aftermath of flooding events in 2010 and 2011, as well as the influence on power relations between CSCs and resource providers. To address this research purpose, qualitative data were collected across nine site visits (focus groups, interviews) to affected CSCs. The data revealed three resource providers: volunteers and members, partner organisations and government. In addition, the results indicate that relations between CSCs and members and volunteers, partner organisations and government were impacted in different ways. Examples of resource providers wielding power over CSCs due to the provision of resources emerged, along with some evidence of mutual power and dependence and CSCs exerting power over resource providers. The results provide implications for CSC managers to be more proactive in relation to resourcing through developing strategies for network building and improved communication within networks.     

The exclusiveness of group identity in celebrations of team success

Basking in reflected glory (BIRGing) describes individuals’ tendency to publicly affiliate themselves with successful others. Within sport, scholars have provided foundational knowledge pertaining to BIRGing; however, they have not deeply engaged with sport fans to understand the influence of multiple group identities in celebrating team success. Using social identity theory and social identity complexity as theoretical frameworks in the current study, I conduct qualitative research with sport fans to understand how multiple group identities influence fan behaviours in response to team performance. I discover that fans (1) BIRG and blast for an enhanced sense of inclusiveness and distinctiveness, and (2) possess multiple, ordinarily inclusive group identities, which converge into a highly exclusive social identity structure immediately before, during, and after games against rivals. I conclude by discussing the potential theoretical and managerial implications regarding multiple group identities in sport contexts, as well as directions for future research.     

Data assemblages,sentient schools and digitised health and physical education (response to Gard)

Michael Gard raises some important issues in his opinion piece on digitised health and physical education (HPE) in the school setting. His piece represents the beginning of a more critical approach to the instrumental and solutionist perspectives that are currently offered on digitised HPE. Few commentators in education, health promotion or sports studies have begun to realise the extent to which digital data surveillance and analytics are now encroaching into many social institutions and settings and the ways in which actors and agencies in the digital knowledge economy are appropriating these data. Identifying what is happening and the implications for the concepts of selfhood, body and social relations, not to mention the more specific issues of privacy and the commercialisation and exploitation of personal data, requires much greater attention than these issues have previously received in the critical social research literature. While Gard has begun to do this in his article, there is much more to discuss. In this response, I present some discussion that seeks to provide a complementary commentary on the broader context in which digitised HPE is developing and manifesting. Whether or not one takes a position that is techno-utopian, dystopian or somewhere in between, I would argue that to fully understand the social, cultural and political resonances of digitised HPE, such contextualising is vital.     

‘Race’ talk! Tensions and contradictions in sport and PE

Background: The universal sport discourses of meritocracy and equality are so engrained that few challenge them. The most cursory interest in sport, Physical Education (PE), and society will reveal that the lived reality is quite different. Racial disparities in the leadership and administration of sport are commonplace worldwide; yet, from research into ‘race’ in sport and PE, awareness of these issues is widespread, where many know that racism takes place it is generally claimed to be somewhere else or someone else. For many, this racism is part of the game and something to manipulate to steal an advantage; for others, it is trivial. This paper explores the contradictions and tensions of the author’s experience of how sport and PE students talk about ‘race’ and racism. ‘Race’ talk is considered here in the context of passive everyday ‘race’ talk, dominant discourses in sporting cultures, and colour blindness.

Theoretical framework: Drawing on Guinier and Torres’ [2003. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. London: Harvard University Press] ideas of resistance through political race consciousness and Bonilla-Silva’s [2010. Racism Without Racists: Colour-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Plymouth: Rowan and Littlefield] notion of colour blindness, the semantics of ‘race’ and racialisation in sport and PE are interrogated through the prism of critical race theory (CRT). CRT is used here to centre ‘race’ and racialised relations where disciplines have consciously or otherwise excluded them. Importantly, the centring of ‘race’ by critical race scholars has advanced a strategic and pragmatic engagement with this slippery concept that recognises its paradoxical but symbolic location in society.

Discussion: Before exploring ‘race’ talk in the classroom, using images from the sport media as a pedagogical tool, the paper considers how ‘race’ is recreated and renewed. The paper then turns to explore how the effortless turn to everyday ‘race’ talk in the classroom can be viewed as an opportunity to disrupt racialised assumptions with the potential to implicate those that passively do so. Further, the diagnostic, aspirational, and activist goals of political race consciousness are established as vehicles for a positive sociological experience in the classroom.

Conclusion: The work concludes with a consideration of the uses and dangers of passive ‘race’ talk and the value of a political race consciousness in sport and PE. Part of the explanation for the perpetuation of ‘race’ talk and the relative lack of concern with its impact on education and wider society is focused on how the sovereignty of sport and PE trumps wider social concerns of ‘race’ and racism because of at least four factors: (1) the liberal left discourses of sporting utopianism, (2) the ‘race’ logic that pervades sport, based upon the perceived equal access and fairness of sport as it coalesces with the (3) ‘incontrovertible facts’ of black and white superiority (and inferiority) in certain sports, ergo the racial justifications for patterns of activity in sport and PE, and (4) the racist logic of the Right perpetuated through a biological reductionism in sport and PE discourses.     

浅析高校实践教学模式的构建

文章主要论述了高校实践教学的内涵,分析了目前高校实践教学的问题,并从课堂理论讲授、专业技能培养和企业实训平台三方面提出高校实践教学模式的思路,最后提出实践教学模式顺利实施的保障措施。     

互动教学在高校思想政治理论课中的应用探究

思想政治理论课程是高校的基础课程,重在培养学生的思想道德素质和人文素养,对大学生人生观、价值观以及世界观的形成具有重要意义。目前,我国高校的思想政治理论课程还保持着传统的教学方式,教学质量在不断下降,违背了素质教育的要求,已不适应现代教育的发展。在高校思想政治理论课程中应用互动教学,是教学模式创新的重要体现。本文就互动教学在高校思想政治理论课中的应用进行了分析与探究。     

话语礼貌理论在日语教学中的应用

话语礼貌理论是对礼貌策略的补充和发展,使研究的视角从单句扩展到话语和语篇,并且对日语教学有更强的指导意义。文章以话语礼貌理论为理论指导,通过深入细致的分析,探讨了如何在日常教学中导入话语礼貌理论,从而促进日语教学,提高学生日语交际能力。     

浅谈高中体育理论与实践创新

体育既是全面发展教育的重要组成部分,又是学校教育的重要组成部分。现阶段我国高中体育教学模式是学生在体育课上只能单纯按照教师或者考试的要求实践,学生丧失了课堂主体地位。教师以及学校教学理念的落后,导致高中体育教育教学模式的僵化,进行体育教学实践创新对高中体育教育具有重要意义。通过研究,提出了以建设创新型高中体育教师队伍、建设创新型分类教育新模式、建设创新型体育教学模式、建设创新型体育评价体系等实现高中体育教育创新的途径。体育教育创新并不是空穴来风,而是创新要有明确的创新内容让学生去实践。建立学会选择是创新教育的基础素质中的要素之一、学会设计一个适宜难度是创新教育成功的关键以及建立一个明确过程、分层有序的评价体系等具体的学生实践途径和方式。最后,高中体育教学只有不断改革创新,在观念和行为上都进行创新才能担负起时代赋予的重任。     

高职院校军事理论课的魅力浅析--以辽宁金融职业学院为例

普通高等学校军事课教学大纲规定军事理论课教学时数为36学时,学生在学习中没有压力,而且教学中采用高职高专规划教材也对军事理论教学起了很大的作用。把理论课讲活、不枯燥,激发学生的学习积极性。各院校也给军事理论课很大的支持。新生军训之后,教官的军人作风使大学生充满了对军事的向往,任课教师的人格魅力也让学生热衷军事理论课的学习。军事理论课在高职院校还是很受欢迎的。     

图式理论与技工院校专业英语阅读教学

阅读是语言输入的重要途径,也是英语四大能力之一。外语习得有别于母语习得,不一定听说能力更重要,外语教学要把培养外语阅读能力放在首位,为其他技能的发展打下基础。鉴于此,阅读教学一直居于英语教学的重要地位,但实际效果却不尽如人意。本文简要分析了技工院校学生专业英语阅读成绩现状及原因,以图式理论阅读模式为例,结合专业英语的特点,对技工院校专业英语阅读的教学过程给出了建议,并提出了一些其他提高学生阅读能力的途径。