The Effects of Sports Involvement and Coaching Styles on Self-Esteem, Self-Perception, and Mental Development on Adolescent Athletes

This paper focuses on the relationship between sport involvement and effective and ineffective styles of coaching on the overall development of adolescent athletes. The self-esteem, self-perception, and mental development of adolescent athletes are both positively and negatively affected by their involvement and experiences on organized sports teams, and by the coaching they receive on those teams. Although sports have numerous benefits for children’s overall development, I will focus on these three specific areas of development. I will first develop a background of the concept of organized sports teams and then follow with two subjects; sport participation and involvement, and coaching styles. In each section, I will discuss how self-esteem, self-perception, and mental development of the child athlete are affected in relation to each specific topic

Under the umbrella of refugee policies

This poster urges the observer to think twice: does the “umbrella” of refugee policies really protect refugees; does it further or hinder their integration? This poster presents first findings after my field research in Ulyankulu settlement, in Tabora region, Tanzania. After 40 years of living in the settlement, even the second generation of Burundian refugees still has not obtained their citizenship certificates. Deprived of important rights, they wait for the governments’ and the UNHCR’s decisions. My research aims at getting a sense of the refugees’ integration in Tabora and Tanzania as a whole, and to assess the impact of the refugee policies in place on their sense of belonging. Through participant observation and interviews, I got a deep insight in refugees’ daily lives and saw the creative as well as destructive effects that waiting can have. Belonging is expressed only to Tabora, a diasporic consciousness towards Burundi is not pronounced

Write Like a Visual Artist: Tracing artists’ work in Canada’s textually mediated art world

This study examines the social organisation of Canada’s art world from the standpoint of practising visual artists. Bringing together theories of literacy and institutional ethnography, the article investigates the literacy practices of visual artists, making visible how artists use written texts to participate in public galleries and in the social and institutional relations of the art world. Drawing on extended ethnographic research, including interviews, observational field notes and textual analyses, this study sheds light on the ways visual artists enact particular texts, enact organisational processes, and to enact the social and conceptual worlds they are a part of. Through the lens of visual artists, this study locates two particular texts – the artist statement and the bio statement – in the extended social and institutional relations of the art world.

What are Funds of Knowledge? A Collaborative Approach to Education

It is important as educators to have a holistic understanding of students’ identities as these experiences influence classroom dynamics. As noted by Dugan (2017), “…identity, knowledge, and power are influenced profoundly by ideology and hegemony and in turn play a role in shaping people’s stocks of knowledge” (p. 40). “Stocks of knowledge” are characterized by five principles: they are familiar, serve to help navigate the world, “shaped by lived experience, altered only through novel situations, and socially constructed based on identity” (Dugan, 2017, p. 34). These “stocks of knowledge” are also known as “funds of knowledge” by multicultural educators.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1052/thumbnail.jp