Andy Pitchford
Biographic Data
| ID | 6557172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Pitchford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitchford |
| SIGNATURE | PITCHFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sporting intervention and social change
Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or ‘at-risk’ young people with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very often, the objective of such interventions is the acquisition and development of qualities associated with ‘good citizenship’. However, critical scholars have noted how sport-based initiatives are frequently used as a form of social control, focusing on the developm…
Constructing knowledge
Models of curricula development in higher education pay scant attention to the role of self‐interested actors in the construction of knowledge. Rather, it is assumed that curricula develop on the basis of fission within disciplines, fusion between fields, the exertion of pressure by the state or other stakeholders, or the development of knowledge in relation to professional practice. This article argues that the ongoing debate about the nature an…
Measuring the impact of child protection through Activation States
Child protection (CP) has risen to the top of the UK sports policy agenda in the past four years and the Football Association has invested in this major strategy as part of its commitment to ‘use the power of football to build a better future’ (Football Association, 2000a). Evidencing the impact of child protection is, however, a complex task, exacerbated by the dearth of measurement tools that exist for this purpose in sport. This article presen…
Children in football
Although the academic analysis of association football continues to proliferate, the experiences of children in this context appear to be of marginal concern to researchers and policy makers. Drawing on developments in the sociology of childhood and a review of football literature, this article analyses data from the first year of the English Football Association's (FA) Child Protection Research Project, a five-year programme commissioned by the …
Sports development and the public sector
(2000). Sports development and the public sector: the case of association bowls. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 165-175
Sporting intervention and social change
Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or ‘at-risk’ young people with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very often, the objective of such interventions is the acquisition and development of qualities associated with ‘good citizenship’. However, critical scholars have noted how sport-based initiatives are frequently used as a form of social control, focusing on the developm…
Children in football
Although the academic analysis of association football continues to proliferate, the experiences of children in this context appear to be of marginal concern to researchers and policy makers. Drawing on developments in the sociology of childhood and a review of football literature, this article analyses data from the first year of the English Football Association's (FA) Child Protection Research Project, a five-year programme commissioned by the …
Measuring the impact of child protection through Activation States
Child protection (CP) has risen to the top of the UK sports policy agenda in the past four years and the Football Association has invested in this major strategy as part of its commitment to ‘use the power of football to build a better future’ (Football Association, 2000a). Evidencing the impact of child protection is, however, a complex task, exacerbated by the dearth of measurement tools that exist for this purpose in sport. This article presen…
Sports development and the public sector
(2000). Sports development and the public sector: the case of association bowls. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 165-175
Children in football
Although the academic analysis of association football continues to proliferate, the experiences of children in this context appear to be of marginal concern to researchers and policy makers. Drawing on developments in the sociology of childhood and a review of football literature, this article analyses data from the first year of the English Football Association's (FA) Child Protection Research Project, a five-year programme commissioned by the …
Constructing knowledge
Models of curricula development in higher education pay scant attention to the role of self‐interested actors in the construction of knowledge. Rather, it is assumed that curricula develop on the basis of fission within disciplines, fusion between fields, the exertion of pressure by the state or other stakeholders, or the development of knowledge in relation to professional practice. This article argues that the ongoing debate about the nature an…
Measuring the impact of child protection through Activation States
Child protection (CP) has risen to the top of the UK sports policy agenda in the past four years and the Football Association has invested in this major strategy as part of its commitment to ‘use the power of football to build a better future’ (Football Association, 2000a). Evidencing the impact of child protection is, however, a complex task, exacerbated by the dearth of measurement tools that exist for this purpose in sport. This article presen…
Sporting intervention and social change
Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or ‘at-risk’ young people with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very often, the objective of such interventions is the acquisition and development of qualities associated with ‘good citizenship’. However, critical scholars have noted how sport-based initiatives are frequently used as a form of social control, focusing on the developm…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · Football (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (3 works)