Learning Culture through Sports

Exploring the Role of Sports in Society

Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Brian Lampman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2006
Rowman & Littlefield Education (Verlag)
978-1-57886-380-8 (ISBN)

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On school playgrounds and sporting fields, the words "you throw like a girl" are often used to denigrate particular players. Caricatures on Native Americans continue to fill billboards and sport stadiums, even in our nation's capital, despite the outcry of many American Indian organizations and supporters. These words, images, and the actions associated with them have meanings, and say much about the role of sport in our world and in our lives. Yet sport is rarely examined critically, despite the fact that it is an integral part of our society, and an important force in our lives. While we often complain about certain aspects of sport, rarely are solutions explored.

This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. In this text, authors take up the challenges faced by sport in our world, especially as it relates to the lives of young people, providing multiple perspectives on the issues, problems, and possibilities of sport in contemporary American society. The authors represent a variety of positions—scholars, coaches, teachers, athletes, and community members—providing readers with different lenses through which to examine sport and its role in our society. This book helps readers to recognize that sport is not just a game, but also a serious piece of our culture that needs to be examined critically from multiple perspectives.

Sandra Spickard Prettyman is an assistant professor at the University of Akron where she teaches courses in Cultural Foundations of Education and Qualitative Research. Brian Lampman is a secondary educator at Saline Middle School (MI) where he teaches eighth grade social studies, integrating sports sociology concepts into his course. Brian also coaches the varsity boys' soccer team in Saline.

Part 1 Introduction: Why Study Sport?
Part 2 Part I: Youth Participation and Sport
Chapter 3 Organized Sports for Young People: A 20th Century Invention
Chapter 4 An Open Letter to Communities: What Community Leaders Can Do to Improve Youth Sports
Chapter 5 Time Out! For Better Sports for Kids
Chapter 6 Motivation and Outcomes of Youth Participation and Sports
Part 7 Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Sport
Chapter 8 Title IX: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 9 Liberties and Lipstick: The Paradox of Cheerleading as Sport
Chapter 10 If You Beat Him, You Own Him, He's Your Bitch: Coaches, Language, and Power
Chapter 11 Pitching for Equality: Gay Athletes and Homophobia
Part 12 Part III: Race and Ethnicity and Sport
Chapter 13 The New Racial Stereotypes
Chapter 14 Exploring Race with Secondary Students: Developing Critical Media Literacy
Chapter 15 Unexpected, Undeserved, Unrewarded...and Undeniable: Sport and Transformation
Chapter 16 Making Sense of the American Indian Mascot Issue
Part 17 Part IV: Sport and the Media
Chapter 18 Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: Music, Sports, and the Rhetoric of Patriotism
Chapter 19 Reconsidering Girl Power: Examining Media Images of Female Athletes
Chapter 20 Why Be A "Jackass"?: Media Images of Young White Men In and Out of Sport in New Millenium America
Chapter 21 Education, Sport, and Hip-Hop through the Mic of Stuart Scott
Part 22 Part V: Sport and Violence
Chapter 23 In the Name of Obedience: Overcoming the Damaging Myths about Hazing
Chapter 24 Athletes, Role Models, and Criminals: What Do We Make of This Tripatite Mess?
Part 25 Part VI: Sport and Schools
Chapter 26 The Scholar-Baller Approach: A Cultural Map for Academic Success in America
Chapter 27 Rethinking the Role of Sports in Our Schools
Chapter 28 The Meaning of Success in Academics and Athletics
Part 29 Conclusion: Sport, Society, and Social Justice

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.5.2006
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 228 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-57886-380-5 / 1578863805
ISBN-13	978-1-57886-380-8 / 9781578863808
Zustand	Neuware