Club Work Research Articles

The development of Swiss sports clubs: Membership, volunteering, professionalization

Introduction The Swiss Sports Observatory has been conducting the national club survey since 1996. Every six years, the club managers of all sports clubs belonging to an association affiliated to Swiss Olympic are asked to complete a questionnaire. The survey is supported by Swiss Olympic, the Federal Office of Sport and other partners and provides information on the development of Swiss sports clubs, their structures and performance, as well as their strategies and prospects. The latest club survey was published at the end of 2023 (Bürgi et al., 2023). Methods The 2023 club survey is based on an online survey of 6,782 sports clubs. With a total of 18,229 sports clubs contacted, this results in a participation rate of 37.2%. The results were validated and their representativeness checked through various comparisons with other surveys (survey of the associations and the population surveys "Sport Schweiz 2020" and "Freiwilligen-Monitor"). Results The number of sports clubs - but not the number of active members - has fallen slightly in recent years. However, the large number of small clubs continues to characterize the Swiss club system. The high density of clubs ensures a wide range of activities, but also ties up a lot of resources and leads to increased fluctuation among members. The vast majority of active members as well as children and young people are active in medium-sized and large clubs. The number of active club members has remained stable for many years. There has been no decline in club memberships, but the clubs cannot profit from population growth and the sports boom. There are also significant changes in the club structure: clubs are growing among children but losing members among adults. This development has an impact on the recruitment of volunteers. Voluntary work therefore remains the foundation of club sport, but also the number one challenge. The problem cannot be solved with increased professionalization. Although there is more paid work in clubs today, the need for volunteers is still growing. Club budgets also place limits on professionalization. Staff cost is already the largest expense item today. The financial situation of Swiss sports clubs has not generally deteriorated in recent years. However, it has not been possible to tap into new sources of income either and membership fees cannot be increased at will. Discussion/Conclusion Overall, Swiss sports clubs have coped well with the various challenges of recent years. At the same time, the proportion of clubs facing problems that threaten their existence is increasing. Only with the active further development of club work and differentiated approaches to solutions, which help to meet the growing demands placed on clubs and the associated increased need for volunteers and paid staff, will clubs remain a central pillar of Swiss sport in the future (Lamprecht & Nagel, 2022).

Home demonstration work in North Carolina: Leading the way for rural women

Canning and home demonstration clubs played an important role in improving agriculture and home life shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Organized in local communities, these clubs for young girls and their mothers provided the opportunity for females to engage in experiential learning through the growth and canning of vegetables. Club work and activities allowed the involved individuals to learn important home life concepts including incorporating more nutritious meals, record keeping, maintaining the family garden, and other duties surrounding the home. In addition, clubs promoted cooperation among various groups, fostered friendships, and provided entrepreneurial opportunities for farm women. Movements such as these increased the demand for agricultural and extension education and many of the strategies developed through these clubs can be implemented in both formal and non-formal education today.

중등 체육교사의 직업적 삶에 대한 넋두리

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the patterns and traces of secondary Physical Education teachers" tough lives by reflecting on the causes, factors, and reasons for their grumbles in their professional life or daily life. For this purpose, the investigator conducted a qualitative case study with five Physical Education teachers currently teaching at a middle or high school in Gyeonggi Province. The findings were as follows. First, the factors of secondary Physical Education teachers" grumbles in their professional life derived from their human relations with people they interacted with in school all the time including students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and staff in the administration office. They also experienced grumbles over heavy workloads, unfairness, civil affairs, and athletic club work. In addition, they also had grumbles over the limitations of the barriers in reality, the rigidity of the teaching profession, and social perceptions and reputations. And secondly, secondary Physical Education teachers had grumbles in their professional life to establish a living foundation for their professional life through emotional appeals such as protesting, reflecting, protecting, comforting, recovering, wishing, and finding hope.

The Manang Generation and the Radical Origins of the Pinay Identity

Abstract: As colonial subjects and pensionadas (students under American jurisdiction) during the American Occupation Era, Progressive-Era-Filipinas used their western education to craft a vision for the modern woman-citizen, the “New Filipina,” producing an emerging transpacific p/feminist agenda demanding both sovereignty and suffrage. Filipinas immigrating to America in the 1920s–1930s confronted similar patriarchal barriers within Filipina/o American communities while working alongside their husbands along the rural Central Coast. To secure the survival of their families, homes, and cultural heritage, pinays (Filipina Americans) employed methods of community organizing, club work, and care work, echoing the feminist politicking of the pensionada generation before. Both pensionadas and pinays interpreted Filipina labor (as cultural and maternal care work) as a means of resisting colonial and cultural patriarchies, thus helping their communities survive and thrive to this day.

ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ ОРЛОВСКИХ ПРОФСОЮЗОВ ПО ФИЗКУЛЬТУРНО-МАССОВОЙ РАБОТЕ И РАЗВИТИЮ СПОРТА В 1923–1991 ГОДЫ

The purpose of the article is to study the activities of Orel trade unions on the development of physical culture and mass work and sports in 1923-1991. Statistical and reference materials, documents of the Orel State Archive, sports veterans’ memories are used as the main sources. In the course of the study, the system analysis, the retrospective method, the method of historicism are used. The article analyzes the prerequisites for conducting physical culture and mass work and the development of sports by trade unions; the historical stages of this work are identified. The fact that the trade unions of the country looked for new forms of relations with the working class after the October Revolution is established. One of them was physical culture and mass work and the development of sports. Achieving these goals required a significant amount of organizational and financial resources. The activity of the sports society "Trud" was indicative in Orel region. It was established in January 1958 on the basis of voluntary sports societies of trade unions and club work carried out since 1923. As a conclusion, the authors point out that the formation and activity of the sports society "Trud" largely reflects the history of the trade union movement in Russia for the development of physical culture and mass work and sports in the Soviet period.

FORMATION OF READINESS OF FUTURE FORESTRY SPECIALISTS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY BASED ON META-SUBJECT INTEGRATION IN CLASSROOM AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

The article reveals the problem of the formation of readiness of future forestry specialists for professional activity on the basis of meta-subject integration in classroom and extracurricular activities. It is established that the training of future forestry specialists is based on the idea of integrating the efforts and capabilities of different objects and subjects of professional training, which provides for the interconnection of classroom and extracurricular activities. It is revealed that the effectiveness of training of future forestry specialists in classroom and extracurricular activities was provided by meta-subject integration which is the integration of educational material of disciplines of different scientific fields, synthesis of knowledge, skills, and competencies of higher education. It is proved that conducting integration classes on the basis of active teaching methods with the involvement of subject teachers allows to implement an integrative approach and to promote the readiness of future forestry professionals to work according to the following criteria: motivational-personal, cognitive-informational, and effective-practical. The use of methods of a problem statement, problem-solving and project method, etc. in the process of training allows considering potential possibilities of software on the basis of real, significant for the specialist of forestry professional situations, promoting the development of readiness.It is established that the formation of readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities is achieved through the use of such forms and methods of organizing the educational process in classroom work as business games, defense of creative projects, case studies, teamwork, group discussions, independent work, and more. It is revealed that the current forms of extracurricular activities are electives, various forms of group and club work, quizzes, competitions, exhibitions, expeditions, tourist trips, tourist clubs, professional competitions, professional skills tournaments, and professional career passport development. A special place is given to manufacturing practice.
 Keywords: formation; readiness; future specialists; forestry; professional activity; meta-subject integration; forms; methods; classroom and extracurricular activities.

Military club work with school students of Khanty-Mansiysk okrug in 1941-1945 years

The questions of organization and the results of military training in Ugra schools during the Great Patriotic War are analyzed in this article. Based on the materials of Ugra State archive and the memories of region former teachers and students and using historical genetic and statistical methods the effort to evaluate Khanty-Mansiysk okrugs material and personnel capabilities in organization of military clubs. In addition, the author reveals the main problems that the school education departments faced. For example, the small number of senior classes in the region, the shortage of school premises, the lack of kerosene in short daylight conditions, the lack of clothes and shoes for students and the experienced military instructors small number. The most widespread types of military clubs, the extent of students delivery of various military and physical education standards and their participation in paramilitary games are revealed. The degree of this articles compliance with the general tasks of students pre-conscription military training is assessed. The author comes to the conclusion that the students number who took part in military clubs significantly increased. As a result, more than 80 percent of students could pass the norms on the badges of various societies. Besides the military club work among Ugra students was heavily depended on possibilities of schools, as a result there were a little number in Ugra by the end of the war.

Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Sheena Harris

Reviewed by: Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Sheena Harris Leigh Soares Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman. By Sheena Harris. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 210. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-62190-619-3.) Building on literature that has shed new light on the lives and leadership of Black women traditionally overshadowed by the renowned "race men" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sheena Harris has written the first scholarly biography of Margaret Murray Washington. Born enslaved in Macon, Mississippi, Washington is known most for her marriage to Booker T. Washington as he arrived at the height of his power, but here readers see how she became a prominent educator and race leader in her own right. She developed a robust curriculum for Black girls at Tuskegee Institute, promoted Black history education in Black schools across the South, and organized Black women to lead racial uplift movements in their own communities. With this biography of Margaret Washington, Harris "not only restores her to the history of HBCU administrators and club women, but also illuminates the interconnections among movements that stood against racial and gender oppression" (p. 10). [End Page 403] Drawing on a wide range of personal correspondence, public writings, and institutional records, Harris traces the life and career of Washington from her birth in 1861 to her death in 1925. The first three chapters recount Washington's childhood, her education at Fisk University, her marriage to Booker, and her pedagogical commitments as Lady Principal of Tuskegee Institute. Harris emphasizes how Washington's early experiences in the rural, impoverished South helped shape the vision of Black education she brought with her to Tuskegee—one that emphasized respectability, the professionalization of domestic labor, and the uplift of the home. Washington's commitment to industrial education, Harris explains, "was not an accommodationist view, as many critics of her husband asserted, but rather a survivalist strategy" (p. 55). The last three chapters follow Washington's club work on three scales: local (the Tuskegee Women's Club), national (including the National Association of Colored Women and the Southern Federation of Women's Clubs), and international (the International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World). Washington certainly benefited from her husband's fame and influence, but she carved out a respected leadership role for herself through increasingly ambitious organizing, all in service of advancing the study of Black life, uplifting Black women and children, and fighting the spread of white supremacy. Although Harris clearly admires Washington, she does not pull punches when examining the leader's emergent elitism. "While [Washington] espoused views of cohesive [cross-class] collaborations, she herself remained exclusively separate," and most of the Black women Washington sought to uplift were excluded from membership in the numerous organizations she led (p. 144). One of the benefits of biography is the way individual experiences can provide insight into the people behind movements. In several effective passages, Harris explores the physical and emotional toll on Washington as she struggled to find a balance among her work commitments, her responsibilities as a wife and mother, and her personal well-being, highlighting the unique challenges Black women faced as they pursued public leadership. Although the narrative is at times ambivalent about the relationship between her work and the so-called Tuskegee Machine, it is clearer about Washington's connection to a wide network of Black race women rooted in the South. Harris shows Washington collaborating with other understudied reformers in the region, including Josephine Bruce, Lugenia Burns Hope, and Cornelia Bowen. Readers interested in Black women's history and educational history will appreciate this recovery of the life and career of Margaret Murray Washington. Leigh Soares Mississippi State University Copyright © 2022 The Southern Historical Association

Potential of case-technology in the formation of students’ research competence in practice-oriented learning

The article presents the results of research on the formation of students’ research competence. The authors conduct an analytical review of Russian and foreign scientific sources covering this pedagogical phenomenon. It is demonstrated that an essential role in the formation of research competence today is played by active learning technologies, which include case technologies. The potential of practice-oriented cases for classroom work used when working with students in pedagogical education and, as well as the potential of educational-research cases for extracurricular club work with school students, is revealed. The forms of cases as a means of developing research competence, requirements for them, and the implementation stages are described. The article also provides the results of practice-oriented learning carried out as part of experimental work with the use of case technologies. The authors’ materials can be used in the process of developing students’ research competence in both higher and secondary education institutions.

Функціонування туристично-краєзнавчого гуртка на базі криворізької спеціалізованої школи №74

A significant role in the educational process of the school is given to extracurricular and extracurricular work. In modern conditions, when the existence of Ukrainians as a nation is threatened, patriotic education of modern youth acquires great importance. It is the local studies direction of education that forms children's interest in studying the history and nature of their native land, features of culture, language, and famous figures. Students of tourist and local history groups should develop national consciousness and pride for their small Motherland during excursions, classes in the classroom or in nature. That is why it is necessary to develop extracurricular work in the field of tourism and local history in institutions of general secondary education. However, practice shows that Kryvyi Rih schools do not use the opportunity to create extracurricular associations in the above-mentioned direction. Thus, there is a need to create tourism and local history clubs on the basis of general educational institutions. The club as a form of work organization expands the opportunities of those who study, involves children of different ages in the learning process, but the general direction of the club 's work takes place within the framework of a defined program. The program developed by us ensures the fulfillment of all tasks set by the head of the group, competencies that students must acquire during theoretical and practical classes. The program contains 7 sections that allow you to explore in detail and learn about Kryvyi Rih, to appreciate the beauty of the native land with the help of excursion routes.

Agitation Courts as a Form of Agitation and Propaganda Work in the 1920s.

The article is devoted to such a type ofagitation and propaganda work, which was actively used in the 1920s, as staged agitation courts (agitsudy). According to the idea of their popularizers, they should have been an integral part of club work, being evaluated as a sufficiently effective way to revive cultural work and involve the broad masses in it, and become one of the many forms of rational organization of free leisure time. The article considers the range of topics covered by the agit-sudy and their place in cultural and propaganda work in the context of the transformation of everyday and leisure culture. The author comes to the conclusion that agitation courts, when properly organized, helped to combine indoctrination with entertainment, thereby contributing to the involvement of the broad masses in agitation and propaganda work. With minimal organization costs, they were more effective than lectures and plays due to the active involvement of the audience in the process. The topic of the processes depended on the most relevant tasks for the time and place and was often associated with the ongoing political campaigns. If initially agitsudy were organized not only to accuse, but also to re-educate, educate and integrate new values into everyday life, then by the end of the period there is a tendency to weigh down the charges and increase the severity of sentences.

중학교 체육교사의 직무 탐색

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the teaching life of physical education teachers and provide practical information for career selection to students who major in physical education or wish to major in physical education.<BR> Method: For the study, five teachers who are currently serving as middle school physical education teachers in Gyeonggi-do were selected as research participants and the study was conducted.<BR> Results: The results of this study are as follows. First, the work types of middle school physical education teachers can be classified into physical education class-related work, sports club work, and life guidance work for developing students’ personalities. Second, middle school physical education teachers considered their occupations positively through the sense of achievement resulting from the improvement of students’ athletic ability, students’ attitudes toward physical education, and job characteristics with plenty of free time. Third, middle school physical education teachers’ job satisfaction was decreasing due to excessive workload other than physical education classes, difficulties in personality education & life guidance, and prejudices of fellow teachers.<BR> Conclusion: In conclusion, college students majoring in physical education need the following preparations to become desirable physical education teachers. First, college students should acquire specialized knowledge of physical education during their studies. Second, college students should have educational qualifications for personality education of students. Third, college students will have to acquire basic knowledge for performing educational administrative tasks during their college life.

Родительский клуб как реабилитационная структура для семьи ребенка с ограниченными возможностями здоровья и инвалидностью

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of organizing a parent club for families raising children with disabilities. Based on practical experience, the authors identify the conditions necessary for the effective functioning of the parent club. Based on the results of the study of the social potential, psychological characteristics and relevance of this form of work for parents, a program of classes was compiled and the main directions of the club's work were determined.

РОЗВИТОК ПРОФЕСІОНАЛІЗМУ МАЙБУТНІХ МАГІСТРІВ У ПРОЦЕСІ ПРАКТИЧНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ У ЗАКЛАДАХ ПОЗАШКІЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ

The article is devoted to the problem of future masters’ professionalism development in the process of practical training in the institutions of out-of-school education. Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, the understanding of the concept of professionalism has been clarified, the peculiarities of practice in a multidisciplinary institution of out-of-school education have been revealed, the requirements to the bases of practical training of future masters of education, educational program 011 Educational, pedagogical sciences (Out-of-school education) It has been found out that the future teachers’ practical training acts as an integrating main component of personal and professional development of the specialist, the link between theoretical training and independent work in the establishments and institutions of out-of-school education. Providing performance of various tasks, which include: acquaintance with the general directions of work in a multidisciplinary institution of out-of-school education; creation of an individual educational trajectory of the applicant of out-of-school education according to abilities of talents and gifts of children and youth on the basis of psychological and pedagogical diagnostics; development of curricula, calendar and lesson plans for group and club work, development of scenarios and script plans for collective and mass events, which are included in the annual work plan of the institution of out-of-school education. It has been specified that the professionalism of the future master will be reflected in the following results of practical training: the ability to recognize and take into account the diversity of students, the ability to provide individual support in the educational process; awareness of different contexts in which training, upbringing and development of students of out-of-school education can take place; ability to implement subject-subject interaction with different participants of the educational process at different levels; the ability to contribute to the formation of a general culture of personality, socialization, conscious choice and development of additional educational programs, using a variety of forms, techniques, methods and means of teaching; to master the norms of pedagogical relations in the process of designing and implementing educational activities, search, sharing, application of innovations and creativity in the educational process.

МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ КИНОКЛУБНОГО ДВИЖЕНИЯ ВЧЕРА И СЕГОДНЯ

The article is based on the studies by the Department for the Development and Approbation of Film Education Methods (VGIK) in the field of amateur film associations and cinema clubs. The authors profile the history of the Russian film club movement and analyze the significance of such associations for cultural enlightenment and comprehensive education of a personality. Such a survey is included in the international process of the formation of a cinephile community, who in the USSR were called nothing short of “kinomany” (movie addicts). A hundred years of experience of Russian film education, in the forms of both spontaneous amateur one and complex state one, is considered as a source of methods and best practices to be implemented in modern media education. The article also explains the influence of film clubs and their repertoire on the distribution and popularization of cinema works, especially on the so-called festival and “shelved” films, limited in release then and now becoming a battleground between commercial and artistic priorities of the filming process. The text contains stories and descriptions of participants in the film club movement: the founders of associations, curators and critics. Their interviews make it possible to imagine a three-dimensional picture of the life of cinema lovers’ communities. The main milestones in the history of the film club movement in the USSR and in the world are traced: the formation in the 1910s–1920s, the decline in the 1930s–1940s, the revival of the international festival movement abroad after World War II, and in Russia—during the perestroika, the crisis of the 1980s–1990s, the creation of the Cinema Club Federation, attempts to revive the Friends of Soviet Cinema Society, and modern trends related to the film club work in the context of international cooperation, which was initiated by the VI World Festival of Youth and Students. The Soviet experience is studied in correlation not only with the strengthening in Western Europe of such phenomena as film clubs and film lovers’ associations, but also with the formation of specialized art cinemas and the experiment of the cinema club network, which is predicted to play a special role in the post-pandemic era. Among other things, the authors’ attention is focused on the delicate balance, that accompanied the entire history of the film club movement: the balance between initiative of the people, a spontaneous mass movement, and state efforts to organize and structure this process, between the desire for creative freedom and strict censorship of the elite. The authors consider the domestic and foreign cinema club experience as an opportunity to distribute works of the Russian cinema art among the most interested audience and to establish a system of limited cinema club distribution, which would bring originators and the public closer together.

Политическое воспитание в системе внеурочной работы советской школы в 1920-х - начале 1930-х гг. (на материалах Нижнего Поволжья)

The article examines the problems of influence of social-science disciplines on the formation of the student youth’s political ideals. The Soviet pupils’ political education in the 1920-1930s was closely associated with children’s everyday participation in revolutionary development. The authors describe forms and types of extracurricular activities of the Lower Volga region schoolchildren. The study covers issues of organizing different forms of club work. Special role in political education of that time belonged to revolutionary holidays whose influence on schoolchildren’s consciousness is emphasized.

Practices of German voluntary sports clubs to include refugees

In view of the current migratory movement of refugees to Europe, voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) are often regarded as important drivers in ensuring refugees’ participation in social life. As interest organisations, VSCs produce their services in order to satisfy their members’ interests. This study analyses the practices that VSCs have developed in order to make sports services accessible to refugees. In this study, 37 German VSCs were selected and analysed indepth using a qualitative research approach. The findings reveal that VSCs often develop unconventional practices to include refugees beyond the established routines of the club work and adopted diverse practices: some VSCs have built up cooperation with other organisations to provide sport services in refugee accommodations. Some club practices consist in establishing so-called ‘refugee training groups’ which operate separately from other training groups. Finally, there are VSCs that have enabled refugees to participate in regular training groups.

Examination of Social Activity Understanding from the Viewpoint of School Administrators

The purpose of this study is to examine the social activities in Turkish Education System from the viewpoint of the school administrators. Qualitative method and case study design were conducted in the study. The sample of the study is composed of 10 school administrators, who were selected through convenience sampling and snowball sampling. Data were collected through the semi-structured interview form, observations, and document analysis. Descriptive analysis technique was used to analyze the data. According to the findings of the research, the participants evaluated the social activity as the activities that affect the environment and the students and are desired to affect them and stated that all the stakeholders take on the responsibility for this purpose. The main factor in the quantitative and qualitative differentiation of social activities in schools is the perspective of the school staff who direct and manage these activities. Social activities regulations are generally simple in terms of language and have a structure that facilitates work. Based on the results obtained, it can be suggested to make a regulation that brings a separate lesson time to the club work in the legislation and to carry out the studies that examine the subject from the perspective of the other stakeholders who contribute to education.

REVIEW for a monographic study by Svetlana Sadovenko "Chronotopes of the axiosphere of Ukrainian folk art culture"

Perhaps one of the most problematic areas for the development of contemporary cultural thought is ethnocultural science and its cultural region. Quasi-scientific stamps of descriptive science tend to linger over it, filling its paradigmatic field with romantic-enlightening moods of naive provincial approaches to folklore, club work and folk amateurism, which, unfortunately, is associated with us by classical ethnography. The frantic lack of theoretical potential accumulated by Ukrainian academic philosophies of culture, ethnology, ethno-psychology and ethno-psycholinguistics, as well as Western social and cultural anthropology, was noted in almost every Ukrainian studies studio of a similar kind, but used by a person of a similar kind who used wishing to update anything since the community and the education movement.

Rural clubs in the social structure of the collective farm peasants of Ukraine in the second half of 1940s-first half of 1950s.

The article is devoted to the disclosure of the peculiarities of the situation of rural clubs of Ukraine in the social structure of the collective farm peasantry during the first postwar years. Attention is focused on problems for the Ukrainian peasantry of the first post-war years. Attention is focused on the areas of daily life associated with the work of rural club establishments of the second half of the 1940s, the first half of 1950, that are problematic for Ukrainian rural society. It has been shown that the rehabilitation of the network of rural collective-farm clubs was one of the main tasks of cultural construction in the countryside. It is noted that the material base of kolkhoz clubs was restored and developed mainly due to the scanty funds of village councils, funds and collective farms. The personnel and professional training of employees of cultural and educational institutions is analyzed. It was proved that the consolidation of collective farms in the early 1950's led to a deterioration of the state of socio-cultural work in the countryside. A significant disadvantage, which reduced the effectiveness of club work was its episodicity and irregularity. In general, few kolkhozes managed to succeed in implementing cultural programs in the countryside.