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Youth Sports: What Counts as “Positive Development?”
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There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it as mentioned in this paper. But sport participation does not always contribute to the development of children.Abstract:
There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport’s assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it. Prom...read more
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A grounded theory of positive youth development through sport based on results from a qualitative meta-study.
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TL;DR: A model that distinguishes between implicit and explicit processes to PYD is presented and results of an inductive meta-data analysis produced three categories: PYD climate, life skills program focus, and PYD outcomes.
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