Meredith A Whitley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4427751 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meredith A Whitley |
| NOMBRES | Meredith A |
| APELLIDO | Whitley |
| FIRMA | WHITLEY M A |
| AFILIACIONES | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8982-250X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Toward a Trauma‐Informed Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program
BACKGROUND: Many students would benefit from trauma-informed physical activity (PA); however, there is a lack of systematic guidance on incorporating trauma-informed practices across school-based PA opportunities. The purpose of this study was to generate a feasible framework for trauma-informed school-based PA. METHODS: Framework development was guided by a modified Delphi approach, including an exploration phase and an evaluation phase. First, …
Positive youth development
PYD experiences within SfD interventions are strongly correlated with SEL growth, leadership development, and career and college readiness, especially for socially vulnerable youth of color. This underscores the crucial role of adults in facilitating these experiences. SfD organizations should intentionally design programs to foster PYD experiences, provide comprehensive staff training for cultivating PYD experiences, and implement robust monitor…
Fighting forward
Narratives of sport as ‘a way out’ for young people from oppressed backgrounds tend to be over-simplified and linear, with critiques about perceptions of sport as ‘mythopoeic’, and able to overcome the environmental, social, and cultural forces and discourses at play. And yet, narratives of success through sport might be the most accessible for those from oppressed backgrounds or identity groups, where their future stories might be told. This dic…
Health and Economic Value of Eliminating Socioeconomic Disparities in US Youth Physical Activity
This study quantified the potential savings from eliminating or reducing PA disparities, which can help policymakers, health care systems, schools, funders, sports organizations, and other businesses better prioritize investments toward addressing these disparities
Leveraging global south sports mega events to advance sport for development and peace theory and practice
The article aims to contribute to the relationship between sport for development and peace (SDP) and sports mega‐events (SMEs) as viable platforms for accelerating human development and social change goals at local, regional and international levels. Recently, there has been a notable increase in the number of emerging economies in the global South demonstrating their aspirations to bid and (if successful) host SMEs. The article argues that the S…
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field
We welcome you to this special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal which was envisioned as an opportunity to reimagine and recreate sporting spaces for true racial inclusion and equity.We developed the special issue because of what we saw as an absence of a specific and sustained focus on race and racism in Sport for Development (SfD) as well as an antiracist approach to research and analysis of SfD.This was driven, in part, by the ways in wh…
Narratives of trauma and resilience from Street Soccer players
Trauma exposure is a global public health concern, with lifelong psychological, social, behavioural, and physical health detriments. There is a growing need for trauma-informed interventions, with Sport for Development (SfD) programmes identified as one set of promising interventions. This narrative inquiry explores the lives of soccer players taking part in two SfD programmes (e.g., Street Soccer Scotland, Street Soccer USA) that serve populatio…
Reimagining the Youth Sport System Across the United States
The youth sport system in the United States is not achieving its full potential. There is a need to reimagine this system in ways that are evidence-based, innovative, and coordinated to best safeguard and promote the well-being of young people. The purpose of this expert commentary, composed by the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Science Board, is to propose a set of changes across multiple levels of influence (e.g., individual…
The Talent Paradox
Previous researchers have demonstrated that sport participation can be a place of purpose, a place of celebrated deviance, and/or a value-neutral endeavor for children who have experienced developmental trauma. While previous research has focused primarily on sport as a positive influence, the purpose of this paper is to examine where disillusionment, disengagement, and damage occur through participation in sport. This study was guided by a const…
Sport in Under-resourced, Underdeveloped, and Conflict Regions
Navigating tensions in qualitative research
Increasingly, qualitative researchers are merging methods, processes and principles from multiple methodologies in all stages of a research study. Naturally, this brings tensions into the research process, with concerns about the integration (and/or lack of attention) of distinct historical, epistemological and theoretical approaches. While there is an emerging discourse connected to these methodological tensions, this often overlooks other tensi…
The role of sport for youth amidst trauma and chaos
Sport remains a huge draw for young people, with the dominant narrative remaining one of sport for good. However, it is likely that alternative narratives exist, particularly as the role of sport in development is complex and multi-faceted. Moreover, within the dominant narrative that proposes the use of sport for positive development, how sport contributes to developmental outcomes over time, and what impact sport has on various life domains rem…
Changing methods and methods of change
This collection of papers is made up of diverse, contemporary, and thought-provoking examples of qualitative methods in the study of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). In this conclusion, we reflect on some of the key themes that cut across the contributions. Four main topics are discussed: Interpretation (the subjects and voices at the centre of SDP research), Outcomes (the variety of results that are likely to emerge from SDP research), Cre…
‘Greatness (un)channelled’
Within under-resourced urban communities, sport is a huge draw for many young males, with a commonly shared belief that sport can lead to a better life. However, there is a paucity of research examining the experience of elite athletes from under-resourced areas. Additionally, there has been insufficient research that examines the interrelated systems impacting youth development (e.g. individuals, families, neighbourhoods, schools), which is need…
Sport in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions
More than 600 Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) programmes are currently registered on the International Platform on Sport and Development (sportanddev.org) and over the past two decades, schol
An exploration of life skill development through sport in three international high schools
The positive relationship between adolescents’ sport participation and life skill development is widely acknowledged by various researchers. However, minimal research has explored the role of life skill development through school-based sport participation, specifically within international settings. In light of this consideration, this study examined the life skills developed through sport participation at three international high schools. Data w…
Using a community-based participatory approach to research and programming in Northern Uganda
Sport and physical activity are increasingly being used to promote personal and community development, particularly in developing nations such as Uganda. However, most sport-based research and programming efforts in developing nations have taken an outside-in globalisation approach or a top-down development approach, which may overlook the voices, knowledges and needs of the communities being served. With these concerns in mind, we took a communi…
Growing up in the Kayamandi Township
While the growth of the sport-for-development movement has coincided with the establishment of a number of sport-for-development organisations, many of these organisations have been top-down development projects or outside-in globalisation projects, which are not as effective as they could be. In an effort to address the gap in the literature on inside-up sport-for-development programmes, this study focused on one specific community in South Afri…
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field
We welcome you to this special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal which was envisioned as an opportunity to reimagine and recreate sporting spaces for true racial inclusion and equity.We developed the special issue because of what we saw as an absence of a specific and sustained focus on race and racism in Sport for Development (SfD) as well as an antiracist approach to research and analysis of SfD.This was driven, in part, by the ways in wh…
Leveraging global south sports mega events to advance sport for development and peace theory and practice
The article aims to contribute to the relationship between sport for development and peace (SDP) and sports mega‐events (SMEs) as viable platforms for accelerating human development and social change goals at local, regional and international levels. Recently, there has been a notable increase in the number of emerging economies in the global South demonstrating their aspirations to bid and (if successful) host SMEs. The article argues that the S…
The Talent Paradox
Previous researchers have demonstrated that sport participation can be a place of purpose, a place of celebrated deviance, and/or a value-neutral endeavor for children who have experienced developmental trauma. While previous research has focused primarily on sport as a positive influence, the purpose of this paper is to examine where disillusionment, disengagement, and damage occur through participation in sport. This study was guided by a const…
Growing up in the Kayamandi Township
While the growth of the sport-for-development movement has coincided with the establishment of a number of sport-for-development organisations, many of these organisations have been top-down development projects or outside-in globalisation projects, which are not as effective as they could be. In an effort to address the gap in the literature on inside-up sport-for-development programmes, this study focused on one specific community in South Afri…
An exploration of life skill development through sport in three international high schools
The positive relationship between adolescents’ sport participation and life skill development is widely acknowledged by various researchers. However, minimal research has explored the role of life skill development through school-based sport participation, specifically within international settings. In light of this consideration, this study examined the life skills developed through sport participation at three international high schools. Data w…
Using a community-based participatory approach to research and programming in Northern Uganda
Sport and physical activity are increasingly being used to promote personal and community development, particularly in developing nations such as Uganda. However, most sport-based research and programming efforts in developing nations have taken an outside-in globalisation approach or a top-down development approach, which may overlook the voices, knowledges and needs of the communities being served. With these concerns in mind, we took a communi…
The role of sport for youth amidst trauma and chaos
Sport remains a huge draw for young people, with the dominant narrative remaining one of sport for good. However, it is likely that alternative narratives exist, particularly as the role of sport in development is complex and multi-faceted. Moreover, within the dominant narrative that proposes the use of sport for positive development, how sport contributes to developmental outcomes over time, and what impact sport has on various life domains rem…
Changing methods and methods of change
This collection of papers is made up of diverse, contemporary, and thought-provoking examples of qualitative methods in the study of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). In this conclusion, we reflect on some of the key themes that cut across the contributions. Four main topics are discussed: Interpretation (the subjects and voices at the centre of SDP research), Outcomes (the variety of results that are likely to emerge from SDP research), Cre…
‘Greatness (un)channelled’
Within under-resourced urban communities, sport is a huge draw for many young males, with a commonly shared belief that sport can lead to a better life. However, there is a paucity of research examining the experience of elite athletes from under-resourced areas. Additionally, there has been insufficient research that examines the interrelated systems impacting youth development (e.g. individuals, families, neighbourhoods, schools), which is need…
Sport in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions
More than 600 Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) programmes are currently registered on the International Platform on Sport and Development (sportanddev.org) and over the past two decades, schol
Sport in Under-resourced, Underdeveloped, and Conflict Regions
Navigating tensions in qualitative research
Increasingly, qualitative researchers are merging methods, processes and principles from multiple methodologies in all stages of a research study. Naturally, this brings tensions into the research process, with concerns about the integration (and/or lack of attention) of distinct historical, epistemological and theoretical approaches. While there is an emerging discourse connected to these methodological tensions, this often overlooks other tensi…
The Talent Paradox
Previous researchers have demonstrated that sport participation can be a place of purpose, a place of celebrated deviance, and/or a value-neutral endeavor for children who have experienced developmental trauma. While previous research has focused primarily on sport as a positive influence, the purpose of this paper is to examine where disillusionment, disengagement, and damage occur through participation in sport. This study was guided by a const…
Reimagining the Youth Sport System Across the United States
The youth sport system in the United States is not achieving its full potential. There is a need to reimagine this system in ways that are evidence-based, innovative, and coordinated to best safeguard and promote the well-being of young people. The purpose of this expert commentary, composed by the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Science Board, is to propose a set of changes across multiple levels of influence (e.g., individual…
Narratives of trauma and resilience from Street Soccer players
Trauma exposure is a global public health concern, with lifelong psychological, social, behavioural, and physical health detriments. There is a growing need for trauma-informed interventions, with Sport for Development (SfD) programmes identified as one set of promising interventions. This narrative inquiry explores the lives of soccer players taking part in two SfD programmes (e.g., Street Soccer Scotland, Street Soccer USA) that serve populatio…
A Critical Examination of Race and Antiracism in the Sport for Development Field
We welcome you to this special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal which was envisioned as an opportunity to reimagine and recreate sporting spaces for true racial inclusion and equity.We developed the special issue because of what we saw as an absence of a specific and sustained focus on race and racism in Sport for Development (SfD) as well as an antiracist approach to research and analysis of SfD.This was driven, in part, by the ways in wh…
Fighting forward
Narratives of sport as ‘a way out’ for young people from oppressed backgrounds tend to be over-simplified and linear, with critiques about perceptions of sport as ‘mythopoeic’, and able to overcome the environmental, social, and cultural forces and discourses at play. And yet, narratives of success through sport might be the most accessible for those from oppressed backgrounds or identity groups, where their future stories might be told. This dic…
Health and Economic Value of Eliminating Socioeconomic Disparities in US Youth Physical Activity
This study quantified the potential savings from eliminating or reducing PA disparities, which can help policymakers, health care systems, schools, funders, sports organizations, and other businesses better prioritize investments toward addressing these disparities
Leveraging global south sports mega events to advance sport for development and peace theory and practice
The article aims to contribute to the relationship between sport for development and peace (SDP) and sports mega‐events (SMEs) as viable platforms for accelerating human development and social change goals at local, regional and international levels. Recently, there has been a notable increase in the number of emerging economies in the global South demonstrating their aspirations to bid and (if successful) host SMEs. The article argues that the S…
Toward a Trauma‐Informed Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program
BACKGROUND: Many students would benefit from trauma-informed physical activity (PA); however, there is a lack of systematic guidance on incorporating trauma-informed practices across school-based PA opportunities. The purpose of this study was to generate a feasible framework for trauma-informed school-based PA. METHODS: Framework development was guided by a modified Delphi approach, including an exploration phase and an evaluation phase. First, …
Positive youth development
PYD experiences within SfD interventions are strongly correlated with SEL growth, leadership development, and career and college readiness, especially for socially vulnerable youth of color. This underscores the crucial role of adults in facilitating these experiences. SfD organizations should intentionally design programs to foster PYD experiences, provide comprehensive staff training for cultivating PYD experiences, and implement robust monitor…
Psychology (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (10 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Athletes (7 obras) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (6 obras) · Sport Psychology and Performance (6 obras)