Search for dissertations about: "sport policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words sport policy.
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1. The drive for change putting the means and ends of sport at stake in the organizing of Swedish voluntary sport
University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå UniversityAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to create knowledge on processes of change in the contemporary organizing of Swedish voluntary sport and the systems of meaning at work in these processes. The thesis proceeds from the assumption that the contemporary public sport policy climate is characterized by a pressure on organized sport to change in order for sport to better serve as an implementer of non-sport goals. READ MORE
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2. Physical education policy and practice Issues and controversies in Tanzania secondary schools
University dissertation from Växjö : Linnaeus University PressAbstract : Schools’ decisions to offer Physical Education (PE) is among the possible ways of involving students in physical activity, which has significant effects on students’ health, lifelong participation in physical activities and participation in sport. This thesis explores the factors and the ways they influence secondary schools’ decisions on whether or not to offer PE in Tanzania. READ MORE
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3. Anti-doping – a legitimate effort? Elite athletes' perspectives on policy and practice
University dissertation from Stockholm : Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIHAbstract : The global anti-doping enterprise in sport is a comprehensive system in which the athlete is at the centre of regulation, scrutiny and control. There is limited knowledge about the implications of this extensive control system for athletes and about how athletes perceive the system; little is known about possible consequences of these implications and perceptions for the legitimacy of the system. READ MORE
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4. Anti-doping – a legitimate effort? : Elite athletes' perspectives on policy and practice
University dissertation from Stockholm : Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIHAbstract : The global anti-doping enterprise in sport is a comprehensive system in which the athlete is at the centre of regulation, scrutiny and control. There is limited knowledge about the implications of this extensive control system for athletes and about how athletes perceive the system; little is known about possible consequences of these implications and perceptions for the legitimacy of the system. READ MORE
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5. Sport as a Means of Responding to Social Problems Rationales of Government, Welfare and Social Change
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic PressAbstract : Sport has been increasingly recognized in social policy as a means of steering social change and as a method for responding to diverse social problems. The present study examines how rationales of social change are formed through ‘sport as a means of responding to social problems’. READ MORE
