Children’s agency in organised sport
Relationships and wellbeing
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6426323 |
|---|---|
| Autores | R Barnes (0009-0005-8981-8590, University of Edinburgh), E Kay M Tisdall (0000-0001-8967-6426, University of Edinburgh) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 149-160 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-05-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20436106251341225 |
| OpenAlex | W4410442894 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 46 |
Sport has rarely been addressed in childhood studies’ research, while sport research has only started to call attention to concepts from childhood studies. This article brings both fields together, to explore children’s practices of agency and potential consequences for their wellbeing in organised sport. Such insights are timely, with widespread efforts to increase children’s engagement in sport for its physical and mental health benefits, while recent reports identify wellbeing risks to children who participate. This article draws on case study research from a rugby club in England involving observations of training sessions, followed by interviews and discussions with 31 players aged 14–18, their parents, coaches and officials. Using Leonard’s ‘generagency’, the article explores how the dominant motif of the ‘rugby family’ influenced children’s practices of agency, creating a lattice for trusting relations between children, their parents and coaches. The findings dismantle an unduly individualistic concept of agency, highlighting how relations of trust and emotional affect can be protective and problematic in protecting children from harm or injury. The study underlines the necessity for dialogue and knowledge, in addition to the benefits of belonging, to support children’s practices of agency and their wellbeing in sport
Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Club · Harm · Individualism · Mental health · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law · Medicine · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood
Key Concepts in Childhood Studies
The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People
A systematic review of the psychological and social benefits of participation in sport for children and adolescents
Thematic Analysis
The art of case study research
Human Rights in Youth Sport
The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation
Rethinking Family Practices
Parents’ discursive accounts of their children’s participation in rugby league
The changing structure and culture of english rugby union football
The Value of Sport
We Are a Football Family”
Rethinking children’s agency
Making children’s ‘agency’ visible
Ambiguous agency
Setting policy and student agency in physical education
Opting out of youth sports
Where Are the Kids
Positive Deviance among Athletes
There’s just something about this club. It’s been my family.” An analysis of the experiences of youth in a South African sport-for-development programme
Not so 'new'? Looking critically at childhood studies
Athletic Identity
Competition or integration? The next step in childhood studies
Anonymising interview data
Bruised and confused
Communicating consent in sport
Hockey becomes like a family in itself
The gap between formalised children's rights and children's real lives in sport
Competing Discourses
Shaking It Off" and "Toughing It Out
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