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'Can we play the real sport?' Co-creating a student-centered after-school sports club
For years, physical activity settings had portrayed a discourse that does not allow to add new and different elements in its practice. This discourse established a status quo that has affected in many ways the structure, the pedagogy and practice of physical activity settings. This is the case of ou...
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Published in: | Physical education and sport pedagogy 2022-05, Vol.27 (3), p.231-246 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | For years, physical activity settings had portrayed a discourse that does not allow to add new and different elements in its practice. This discourse established a status quo that has affected in many ways the structure, the pedagogy and practice of physical activity settings. This is the case of out-school programs.
The purpose of this paper is to understand the process of co-creating an after-school sports club implementing a student-centered pedagogy.
This was an activist research project framed in two semesters. A key aspect of activist research is rooted in social interaction and a student-centered pedagogy is central in its framework. Participants included a doctoral candidate (lead author), a university professor (peer debriefing and second author), 3 college graduate and undergraduate students and 13 middle school students. Data collected included 11 peer-debriefing meetings, 22 youth debriefing meetings, 22 researcher journal entries and 13 debriefing meetings with the college adult participants.
Implementing a student-centered pedagogy such as the Student-Centered Inquiry as Curriculum approach helped to co-design and co-create this process within the sports club, which are divided into three sections: (1) design process of a student-centered sports club, (2) challenges and successes process of a student-centered sports club design, and (3) 'Can we play the real sport? - Co-creating a student-centered sports club curriculum.
Co-creating a student-centered after-school sports club had two key elements: collaborative work and time. These two key elements helped a student-centered pedagogy central to an activist approach to become the bridge that facilitates youth engagement in out-school settings such as an after-school sports club. |
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ISSN: | 1740-8989 1742-5786 |
DOI: | 10.1080/17408989.2020.1867716 |