Exploring how education and sport are brought together in two different dual career programs for Danish soccer players

Effects for the player’s current and future life

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ID12676428
AuthorsJesper Stilling Olesen (0000-0001-7536-4544, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Martin Treumer Gregersen (Aarhus University)
Year2022
Volume24
Issue2
Pages223-234
Publication date2022-04-12
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSoccer and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1466-0970 • E-ISSN: 1743-9590
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14660970.2022.2061469
OpenAlexW4223580655
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

The article investigates dual-career (DC) programmes for young soccer players in Denmark. In these programmes, students pursue interests in both education and elite sport with the goal of becoming a better-rounded or ‘whole sports person’. Rather than critique this approach as incoherent, we employ Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage to explore how sport and education are brought together and the resulting ecologies for young people’s lives, present and future. We base our analysis on ethnographic studies of two DC programmes. We find that student-athletes enact the idea of the whole (sports)person in two quite different ways that either enhance or disrupt their agency to enact potential futures. We recommend greater awareness of how specific DC programmes create and deprive student-athletes of life opportunities

Art · Current (fluid · Danish · Dual (grammatical number · Literature · Medical education · Pedagogy · Physical education · Applied Psychology · Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports Performance and Training

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