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Dangerous liaisons: youth sport, citizenship and intergenerational mistrust
Garratt, Dean Piper, Heather
Garratt, Dean
Piper, Heather
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2014-03-24
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This paper reflects on and offers a critical analysis of the relationship between youth sport and citizenship development, in practice and in the UK policy context of sports coaching and physical education. While deploying data and insights from a recently completed research project in England, which identified substantial tensions in intergenerational relationships in sport and coaching, the argument and analysis also invokes wider international concerns and more generally applicable implications for policy and practice. Drawing heuristically upon the philosophy of Dewey (2007 [1916]), it is recognised that the concept of citizenship as a form of social practice should seek to encourage the development of complementary traits and dispositions in young people. To develop socially and educationally thus entails engagement in meaningful social and cultural activity, of which one potentially significant component is participation in youth sport, both within and outside formal education. However, it is argued that any confident assumption that sporting and coaching contexts will necessarily foster positive traits and dispositions in young people should be considered dubious and misplaced. Deploying a Lacanian (1981) perspective to interpret our data, we contend that ‘liaisons’ and interactions between coaches and young people are often treated suspiciously, and regarded as potentially ‘dangerous’.
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Garratt, D., & Piper, H. (2016). Dangerous liaisons: youth sport, citizenship and intergenerational mistrust. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8(1), 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2014.896390
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Taylor & Francis
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International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
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10.1080/19406940.2014.896390
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics on 24/3/2014, available online: DOI 10.1080/19406940.2014.896390
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1940-6940
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1940-6959