Coaches as sport workers: professional agency within the employment context of elite European basketball

Increased activity of multiple stakeholders (e.g. agents and owners) have created new challenges for some coaches working in professional sports clubs. The purpose of this project was to draw attention to the normative or accepted practices inherent in sport work, some of the day-to-day realities of some coaches working in this context, and to understand how coaches’ perceptions of other stakeholders come to bear on their individual circumstances, career expectations/objectives and professional agency. Data were generated from semi-structured interviews with seven professional basketball coaches who worked in top-level European clubs. The analysis reveals the coach’s relationships between some owners and agents differed with respect to exercising professional agency, and, coach’s decisions and actions were tied to their professional ideals as well as understandings of what they need to undertake their work effectively and negotiation and/or adjustment strategies. Occasionally coach’s work practices could be viewed as antithetical to employment security, however, the presence of insecurity was at times embraced and used strategically to affect workers’ career decisions. Amid contemporary regional geo-political shifts, this work aids examinations of global sport settings, structures and issues that may contour sporting professionals’ lives.     

Team identification and sports fandom as predictors of fan aggression: The moderating role of ageing

In the current study, the explored the moderating role of ageing in the relationship between team identification/fandom and fan aggression. The authors used an online panel-based survey that offered access to a realworld population of sports fans. Participants were 740 fans of Israeli professional basketball. Results from structural equation modelling demonstrated that older fans reported higher levels of mere sports fandom and lower levels of self-reported aggression and acceptance of aggression. Moreover, age moderated the relationships between team identification (or fandom) and self-reported aggression, such that team identification (or fandom) was more strongly associated with selfreported fan aggression among younger fans than among older fans. The moderating role of age in the relationships between team identification (or fandom) and perceptions of appropriateness of aggression was not supported. The findings contribute to our theoretical understanding of the role of ageing in the relationship between fan identification and fan aggression. Based on these findings, the authors assert that managers might particularly benefit from leveraging the potential, but often neglected, segment of senior fans, since older fans can play a key role in reducing the level of aggression during competitive sports events. Suggestions for future research are also discussed.     

Did London 2012 deliver a sports participation legacy?

Despite the increasing academic interest in the analysis of the Olympic legacy, there is a relative knowledge gap as far as sports participation legacy is concerned. The authors bridge this gap by analysing the short-term sports participation legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the adult population in England. By using data from the Active People Survey and considering different sports participation variables and the effect of the economic climate, results demonstrate a positive association with participation from hosting the Games. Participation rates were adjusted to take into account seasonality and changes in the gross domestic product (GDP), accounting in this way for the effect of the recent economic recession. The biggest effect was observed in relation to frequent participation (at least three times per week for at least 30 min) in the year immediately after the Games. In 2014, the sports participation rates fell relative to 2013 but remained higher than pre-Olympic levels. The sport participation legacy of the Olympic Games appeared to have significant differences between socio-demographic groups.     

Associations between partnership characteristics and perceived success in Dutch sport-for-health partnerships

To reach and include socially vulnerable people through sport, it is important to create partnerships between sports organisations and public health organisations (i.e., sport-for-health partnerships). Working in sport-for-health partnerships is challenging, however, and little is known about how to manage such partnerships. To explore possible predictors of successful sport-for-health partnership, the authors administered a questionnaire among 86 participants in Dutch sport-for-health partnerships. The questionnaire included measures pertaining to three indicators of successful inter-sectoral partnership (i.e., partnership synergy, partnership sustainability, and community outcomes) and nine partnership elements that may predict its success. Multivariate results suggest that (a) partnership synergy may be best predicted by communication structure and building on the partnership participants’ capacities, (b) community partnership outcomes may be best predicted by partnership visibility and task management, and (c) partnership sustainability may be best predicted by partnership visibility. Hence, the authors would recommend actors in sport-for-health partnerships to pay particular attention to communication structure, building on capacities, visibility, and task management.     

基于他人伦理框架的体育治理研究

对体育治理实践展开伦理追问是促进体育治理发展的重要前提。体育治理他人所传达的内涵为社会与社会多元体育治理主体,据此,体育治理他人伦理问题有"相对他人"和"绝对他人"的二元面向:其一,应重视他人需要,基于伦理视角考量体育治理手段的正当性,对复杂体育治理关系包含的伦理意蕴加以反思;其二,确证社会多元体育治理主体的他人地位,认可并尊重他人的客观存在,与他人协同共治,并在体育治理中可以对他人负责。体育治理他人伦理的根基是诚实守信,目标导向为体育资源配置的公平公正,具体包括自我与他人的商谈伦理、责任伦理、制度伦理以及发展伦理。基于他人伦理框架研究体育治理问题的理论创新在于带来了一种新颖的交叉学科视角,实践价值在于为推进现代化的体育治理体系和治理能力建设带来了内生动力。     

ELES模型视角下宁波市城镇居民体育消费结构研究

运用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法,借助ELES模型对当前宁波市城镇居民体育消费结构进行分析。研究发现,体育消费结构中,非实物型所占比例略高于实物型;实物型基本体育消费需求仍高于非实物型;边际消费倾向和收入弹性研究方面,随居民收入提高对非实物型体育消费的需求量更大;价格弹性方面,实物型体育消费受价格因素影响的波动较小,更为稳定;最后,根据研究结果提出宁波市城镇居民体育消费结构相关建议。     

应用健康信念模式提高大学生体育锻炼的参与性

目的:应用健康信念模式教育对大学生体育锻炼的态度和大学生参与体育锻炼的积极性进行调查研究.方法:选取2012级排球班学生90名.分为实验组45名,对照组45名.实验组运用健康信念模式进行健康教育干预,对照组按常规方式进行健康教育.干预前后对两组进行统计分析.结果发现,进行健康信念模式教育的学生对体育锻炼的态度和体育锻炼的依从性与常规教育方式相比,都具有显著性差异(p<0.05).结论,应用健康信念模式教育可明显提高大学生对体育锻炼的态度,提高大学生参加体育锻炼的依从性.     

HISE人才培养创新模式的理念与实践

从普通高等院校信息类专业传统的人才培养模式的局限性出发,结合杭州国际服务工程学院办学的成功经验和面临的问题,就普通本科院校信息类专业教育教学改革的目标和措施等问题进行了深度剖析,为高等教育改革的全面展开提供了参考依据和可操作的方案。     

高等院校理工学科专业英语教学改革

在学生具备一定的基础英语知识与专业背景的前提下,高等院校理工学科应该如何开展专业英语的教学。本文在分析专业英语的教学现状与困境的基础上,从教学体系、教材选择、教学内容、教学模式、考核方法等方面探讨了专业英语的教学改革。     

德国的体育与媒介：德国足球与体育媒介的里程碑和基本事实

体育在德国大众传媒中占据非常重要的地位。从报纸到广播电视再到新媒体时代,体育都是媒介内容中的重要元素。足球更是占据了体育内容中的核心地位。体育是如何被大众媒介转变的,大众媒介如何受到体育的影响,一直是媒介研究的核心内容之一。在德国电视史上,收视率排名前十位的节目全部是有德国队参加的世界杯和欧洲杯足球赛的赛事转播,其中收视率最高的是于2014年7月13日举行的巴西世界杯决赛德国队与阿根廷队之间的较量,超过三千万德国民众收看了这场比赛的电视转播。因此,世界杯足球赛对于德国社会和体育新闻而言具有重要的影响。研究梳理了德国足球的发展史,以作者主编的《2011国际体育媒介调查》中的数据为依托,以从1994年美国世界杯开始到2014年巴西世界杯期间20年中的世界杯和欧洲杯足球赛为主要研究对象。
　　通过对比,研究发现了不少转变：例如1994年世界杯时,德国电视台转播一场足球比赛的时间是219分钟,到2014年世界杯时已经提升到550分钟。转播过程中比赛所占的比例从1994年的49%下降到2014年的23%。德国民众对体育尤其是足球的狂热,每年可以带来30亿欧元的商业赞助。《2011国际体育媒介调查》在对世界五大洲23个国家和地区81家平面媒体的18340篇文章展开的大数据分析研究发现,受关注度最高的项目依次是足球、网球、英式橄榄球、曲棍球、冰球、自行车、篮球、澳式橄榄球、高尔夫球和马术比赛,其中足球一项就占据41%的比例,网球和英式橄榄球的比例分别为8%和5%。另一方面,撰写体育新闻的平面媒体记者中90%以上为男性。此外,在足球占据体育报道的比例上,罗马尼亚、葡萄牙、巴西、希腊、德国、波兰、苏格兰、南非、法国和瑞士是最高的,其中罗马尼亚媒体报道的比例高达85%。