According to my own understanding, this domain deals with children’s ability to recognize the expressions of feelings, forming connections, play with other children, and handle peer pressures. This provides children the ability to understand the moods of others and control their own moods. Social interaction demands that children are able to work together, following directions, have good reasoning and determine self-discipline. Self-knowledge, which includes high self-confidence, meta-cognition, sexual personality, and cultural identity, goes a long way in children's behavior development and therefore in their healthy social relationships. However, children’s natural disposition plays a major part in their ability to cooperate on a social basis
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Specifically, I try to contribute to scholarly knowledge about how coaches and PE teachers navigate and address the social domain. I refer to the social domain or ‘the social’ in this dissertation as a site that consists of self-oriented and interactive social skills/ behaviors. I assume these skills/behaviors are based on underlying values (beliefs) and norms. Although individuals may know what they define as desirable/positive social behavior/skills and as undesirable/ negative social behavior/skills. Due to the different positions these individuals represent, they also represent diverse perspectives. The purpose of this dissertation therefore, is to explore what coaches and PE teachers do and think they need to do to address social aspects of sport/PE. My focus is on the ideas coaches and PE teachers have about the importance of social skills/behaviors and the development of these in youth sport and PE and how these adults implicitly and explicitly address this social development. Since there is little agreement about the social skills/ behaviors that should be, and are taught in sport and PE, I will explore various perspectives of those involved in youth sport. For example, the skill ‘being/acting tough’ may be seen as a desirable skill for boys, but undesirable for girls. Or it may be seen as a desirable skill for some boys and girls in their sport, while …show more content…
The emphasis in this dissertation lies on how coaches and PE teachers construct meaning and what consequences of these meanings are in the sport /PE context. In order to understand actions and thoughts of coaches and PE teachers I use frameworks that are based on theories that assume social behaviors are shaped by cognitions/thinking. A basic assumption underlying this dissertation therefore, is that the ‘social’ (behavior and interpretations of behavior) is an expression of what people think. I assume that how adults and athletes make sense of the social context of sport informs their social behavior (Coakley, 2011). As stated in the earlier paragraphs, youth sport is repeatedly realized as a movement that can contribute to social problem determination and to progress in the quality of life of contributors. It is important to know that this domain does not occur simply because young people take part in sport or Physical Education. The first-hand evidence proposes that improvement is reliant on context and the nature of mature control. Based on a fiction review that studies the theoretic and realistic basis of claims made in support of social benefits of physical education and school sport. A positive bond between sport and young people development is depending on many factors such as how adults (coaches and Physical Education teachers) cooperate
Specifically, I try to contribute to scholarly knowledge about how coaches and PE teachers navigate and address the social domain. I refer to the social domain or ‘the social’ in this dissertation as a site that consists of self-oriented and interactive social skills/ behaviors. I assume these skills/behaviors are based on underlying values (beliefs) and norms. Although individuals may know what they define as desirable/positive social behavior/skills and as undesirable/ negative social behavior/skills. Due to the different positions these individuals represent, they also represent diverse perspectives. The purpose of this dissertation therefore, is to explore what coaches and PE teachers do and think they need to do to address social aspects of sport/PE. My focus is on the ideas coaches and PE teachers have about the importance of social skills/behaviors and the development of these in youth sport and PE and how these adults implicitly and explicitly address this social development. Since there is little agreement about the social skills/ behaviors that should be, and are taught in sport and PE, I will explore various perspectives of those involved in youth sport. For example, the skill ‘being/acting tough’ may be seen as a desirable skill for boys, but undesirable for girls. Or it may be seen as a desirable skill for some boys and girls in their sport, while …show more content…
The emphasis in this dissertation lies on how coaches and PE teachers construct meaning and what consequences of these meanings are in the sport /PE context. In order to understand actions and thoughts of coaches and PE teachers I use frameworks that are based on theories that assume social behaviors are shaped by cognitions/thinking. A basic assumption underlying this dissertation therefore, is that the ‘social’ (behavior and interpretations of behavior) is an expression of what people think. I assume that how adults and athletes make sense of the social context of sport informs their social behavior (Coakley, 2011). As stated in the earlier paragraphs, youth sport is repeatedly realized as a movement that can contribute to social problem determination and to progress in the quality of life of contributors. It is important to know that this domain does not occur simply because young people take part in sport or Physical Education. The first-hand evidence proposes that improvement is reliant on context and the nature of mature control. Based on a fiction review that studies the theoretic and realistic basis of claims made in support of social benefits of physical education and school sport. A positive bond between sport and young people development is depending on many factors such as how adults (coaches and Physical Education teachers) cooperate