Background: The application of a social theory of learning and the notion of situated learning as a theoretical basis for understanding students' learning in PE is broadly recognised. Nevertheless, it is far more unusual for this theoretical approach to provide a basis for understanding learning processes in talent development in elite sport. Purpose: The purpose is to explore talent development and skill learning in youth elite football as a situated activity in a highly specialised community of practice (CoP) shared by talented male under-18 football players. From a social theory of learning perspective we seek to identify how the football player's ability to stay in elite football probably is influenced by the construction of the social practices in a football community of practice. Participants and setting: The research took the form of a case study of the best under-18 team from two Danish football clubs. Both teams competed in the best Danish tournament series and trained 16–20 hours a week. Data co...

Situated learning in youth elite football: A Danish case study among talented male under-18 football players

This thesis studies how sick leave legitimacy is managed in interaction and develops an empirically driven conceptualization of ‘legitimacy work’. The thesis applies an ethnomethodological framewor ...

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Legitimacy Work : Managing Sick Leave Legitimacy in Interaction

The aim of our study was to identify and problematise messages and value principles visible in children’s stories about team selection in sport. To achieve this, we adopted a discourse analysis app...

Children’s stories about team selection: a discourse analysis

One central issue in sports is the role of informal learning in organized child and youth sport in contrast to learning in the school context of physical education (PE). In Scandinavia, the model for organizing sports include an independent sports organization that organizes child and youth training on many levels, including the grassroots level and elite competitions organized within non-profit clubs and based on non-salaried voluntary work. In contrast to the public schooling context where physical education is led by educated and professional PE-teachers, organized child and youth club sports are based on parental engagement. Drawing on ten interviews with male coaches training their own children, this study examines how fathers are handling learning in the dual position as a father and a coach. This narrative analysis focuses on the theoretical concept of dilemmatic spaces in interviews and shows how shared cultural and societal storylines are used by the parental coaches in their personal stories. The results illustrate three dilemmatic spaces of learning that the participants must rhetorically handle. The first dilemma illuminates the dual position of both being a father, and at the same time acting as a coach. In the second dilemma, the fathers are seeking to balance between care of their child and increasing performance development. The third dilemma is balancing the training as child/parent quality time and the need for children to develop autonomy. The results show how the dual position of being a father and a coach can be both an asset in the relational building but also highly problematic and, in any case, involves a relational identity change. Learning in this dual position means that the fathers cannot act entirely as a coaches and disregard or override their parental position.

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Dad as a Coach: Fatherhood and Voluntary Work in Youth Sports.

This article examines the long historical interest for the selection of young talented children in sports. This seemingly everlasting search for talents and the quest for the especially gifted is f ...

From hard work to grit : On the discursive formation of talent

This article analyzes talent selection within Swedish Sports. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which this process of legitimacy is produced in the case of children and adolescents. The a ...

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Searching for Talent : The Construction of Legitimate Selection in Sports

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