Compare and Contrast
Since last century, sports became an inseparable part of many people’s lives all around the world, the problem of supporting dual career is now widespread. By the dual career “the challenge of combining a sports career with studies or work” (López de Subijana, 57) is meant. As a result, career assistance programs (CAP) were created in order to help students to get a higher education despite on the possible issues. As far as I am being a part of Boston Scholar Athletes organization, I have a practical ability to observe this problem on my own and talk about effectiveness of such a programs. After doing a research on investigating high-school student-athletes educational problems I came up with an understanding of the dual career barriers for athletes and the possible ways of reducing them. These are: individual (emotional), environmental (non-related to the education itself) and time constraint. (López de Subijana, 60)
In this paper I am going to compare two academic articles. These are “Frustrations among graduates of athletic training education programs” by Thomas G. Bowman and Thomas M. Dodge and “Supporting dual career in Spain: Elite athletes ' barriers to study” by Cristina …show more content…
According to Bowman, depression is a common condition for a dual-carrier athlete (79). Object of the research was the investigations of the factors which may lead to the depression. Study was held in a form of semi-constructed interview for fourteen participants (two men and twelve women), who were enrolled into National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) (which is a CAP) postprofessional education program and successfully completed it. Participants were volunteers with completely different academic backgrounds. All of them graduated from fourteen different programs, and also they were representatives of ten different states which demonstrates the diversity among the
Since last century, sports became an inseparable part of many people’s lives all around the world, the problem of supporting dual career is now widespread. By the dual career “the challenge of combining a sports career with studies or work” (López de Subijana, 57) is meant. As a result, career assistance programs (CAP) were created in order to help students to get a higher education despite on the possible issues. As far as I am being a part of Boston Scholar Athletes organization, I have a practical ability to observe this problem on my own and talk about effectiveness of such a programs. After doing a research on investigating high-school student-athletes educational problems I came up with an understanding of the dual career barriers for athletes and the possible ways of reducing them. These are: individual (emotional), environmental (non-related to the education itself) and time constraint. (López de Subijana, 60)
In this paper I am going to compare two academic articles. These are “Frustrations among graduates of athletic training education programs” by Thomas G. Bowman and Thomas M. Dodge and “Supporting dual career in Spain: Elite athletes ' barriers to study” by Cristina …show more content…
According to Bowman, depression is a common condition for a dual-carrier athlete (79). Object of the research was the investigations of the factors which may lead to the depression. Study was held in a form of semi-constructed interview for fourteen participants (two men and twelve women), who were enrolled into National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) (which is a CAP) postprofessional education program and successfully completed it. Participants were volunteers with completely different academic backgrounds. All of them graduated from fourteen different programs, and also they were representatives of ten different states which demonstrates the diversity among the