Families, Youth and Extra-Curricular Activity: Implications for Physical Education and School Sport.

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Abstract

The central object of this chapter is to consider briefly some of the links which exist between families, the growth of extra-curricular activity as a formal and informal pedagogic practice, and young people’s sport participation. More specifically, we examine: (i) the growth of extra-curricular activity under conditions of increased privatisation in education and as a part of the ideology of ‘good parenting’; (ii) the importance of social inequality in family life for childhood sport socialisation; and (iii) how the formation of sporting habituses during childhood and youth may be associated with extra-curricular activity in schools.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFamilies, Young People and Health
EditorsSymeon Dagkas, Lisette Burrows
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Pages181-93
Number of pages244
ISBN (Print)9781138838185
Publication statusPublished - 17 May 2016

Publication series

NameRoutledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

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