Understanding Of Sport Research Articles

The construction of sports tourism projects under the strategy of national fitness by wireless sensor network

Abstract In recent years, sports events have continuously attracted people’s attention, and people’s enthusiasm and participation in sports have been rising. The sports + tourism model can meet people’s travel needs and enjoy sports-related entertainment and experiences. With the expansion of sports tourism, people have a new understanding of sports + tourism. Sports tourism based on the current strategic background of national fitness is an emerging industry, and it has had a certain degree of development prospects before this. This article explores traditional sports tourism with national characteristics under the blessing of the wireless sensor network. This exploration discusses and explores the development and construction of local sports + tourism in terms of literature and logical analysis. The experimental results of this article show that most consumers are not satisfied with the construction of sports tourism network information, and they are the least satisfied with key information coverage, e-commerce, and security systems. It shows that in these aspects, the construction of sports tourism informatization is relatively lagging, and it is in urgent need of improvement and improvement.

The Communicative Nature of Sports

Within the framework of the project of humanitarian expertise of sociocultural phenomena, the concept of sport as a communicative strategy is proposed. To answer the questions of what modern sport is and what are the parameters of its modifications, it is necessary to operate with an understanding of sport in its entirety, since fragmentary studies do not allow subsequent assembly into a single theoretical construct. An attempt was made to develop a sketch of a conceptual apparatus suitable for posing the question of a holistic theoretical reproduction of sports. The most general point of view on the subject is the communicative approach, which, due to its abstractness, sets an adequate level of generalization. Based on it, the structure of the subject of research and the research logic corresponding to it are revealed. Instead of problematic attempts to investigate individual fragments of the whole, in order to put them together later, the author tries to give an elemental analysis of the communicative situation, its structure and components, in order to provide a conceptual apparatus for subsequent specific descriptive and semantic, genetic and philosophical studies.

Pelatihan Gizi Olahraga Untuk Atlet, Pelatih, dan Guru Pendidikan Jasmani

Sports nutrition is a science that studies the relationship between the management of nutritional needs with performance that is beneficial for health, fitness, growth, and fostering sports achievement. The purpose of this PkM activity is to expand the knowledge and understanding of sports, increase competence and develop skills in compiling the need for good nutritional intake for sports through activities. The method used in this PkM activity uses a lecture approach, discussion, guided practice, and evaluation. Furthermore, this PkM activity provides valuable results and conclusions. It positively impacts various knowledge and understanding of the critical role of sports nutrition for the audience of athletes, sports coaches, and physical education teachers, as well as developing skills in formulating appropriate nutritional intake needs in sports activities.

The Application of Cinema Therapy to Mental Training as an Example of Digitalization in Sports

Thanks to the rapid change and development of technological opportunities in sports, training can be carried out in an electronic environment and with electronic tools. Among these tools, we can mention a desktop computer, a printer, a scanner, a projection device, a smart phone, a portable computer also called as laptop, glasses for simulation, and a wearable measuring device such as a polar clock. Through these tools, it is also easier to evaluate the educational activity performed.Digital sports can be defined as sports that are produced, performed and evaluated in an electronic environment. In this context, digital sports means changing and transforming all kinds of modern information about sports, scientific and philosophical views, theories and concepts related to technology. Digital sports, which contains more than one understanding of sports and technical narration about sports, questions the interaction of the sportsperson with his environment and technology, especially with himself.Therefore, a digital sport, as in every newly developing perspective on sports, is supported in a broad context by long-term studies that select multiple perspectives. One of these studies is mental training study in which the basic principles of cinema therapy are applied. Mental training is one of the trainings made using technological opportunities in sports. This training is carried out by making sports people, especially athletes, watch movies or scenes from movies, in line with the principles of cinema therapy, with the help of a computer and a projection device.The main purpose of this study is to consider cinema therapy in mental (psychosocial) training education as an example of digitalization in sports. As a data collection method, the data compiled were blended from sources in different fields such as digital technology, sociology, psychology, sports sociology, sports psychology and psychiatry. It is thought that this study, which is one of the rare studies on the subject, will be an example for similar studies in the future.

Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia

Participation in organized sports can provide a wide range of health and social benefits and, for young people from migrant and minority ethnic groups, can act as a critical mediator of inclusion and belonging. These population groups have relatively low participation rates however, with recognized barriers including costs, transport, culturally determined gender norms, culturally inappropriate club environments, a lack of knowledge and understanding of sports ‘systems’ and competing family priorities. Count Me In (CMI) was a mixed-methods, participatory action research project designed and implemented in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia between 2017–2019 to address these barriers. Key elements of the intervention included employment of bicultural community support coordinators, partnerships with clubs and community-based organisations, encouragement of volunteering and development of resources. This paper reports the qualitative results of the study and discusses the effectiveness and impacts of the Count Me In model for addressing participation barriers.

The Involvement of Preservice Teachers in Delivering of Sport Education

Competence of a teacher should have been obtained when studying in college. However, college students or preservice teachers feel lack of competence during their study in college. It is important for colleges to provide a learning experience for students to have competence in teaching before they become a teacher. Sport Education (SE) has its own uniqueness because in its implementation, it can directly include several learning models as a provision to teach students when becoming a teacher. The purpose of this study was to determine the enjoyment of students using SE based on the characteristics of SE, increased skills and understanding of sports, and the pleasure of using SE. This research uses survey type of descriptive methods. Participants of this study are 35 college students who will finish their studies in the eastern part of West Java province. The instrument of this study used the Sport Education Season Survey. Data analyzing techniques employed in this study were descriptive statistics and paired samples t-test. The results of the study stated that college students enjoyed the use of SE based on the characteristics of SE, that college students have increased skills and understanding of sports, and that college students preferred SE compared to conventional learning. Further investigation related to college students teaching skills in the use of SE needs to be conducted.

Competitive advantage of wearable technology in sports training

<p class="a"><span lang="EN-US">This document outlines wearable technology and the sources, related topics and authors of major publications on this subject in recent years. It is worth mentioning that wearable or wearable technology is also called “wearables” in English. It refers to theincorporationation of microprocessors, sensors and transducersthat we wear daily, which acts as a computer that always works with users, and can be used in a defined space for continuous interaction with users, wearable technology can be defined as an electronic device that can be embedded into human body to continuously obtain information. The purpose of this paper is to understand the development and current situation of this new technology, and apply it to new research findings and the development of wearable devices. The disciplinary connection between different knowledge fields provides a clear starting point for the development of research topics. In specific case of interest, the research focuses on the devices applied to sports, which are used to analyze the strength, flexibility and speed of athletes’ lower limbs, and generate sports evidence related to numerical data, so as to further analyze, explain and produce conclusive results. Electronic engineering performs all data processing similar to electricity, thus defining a part of wearable design for adaptation during physical activity. In the field of programming, system engineering is very important for the data conversion of sensors and the representation of these data in a way that people can understand. This new technology allows the generation of a wide variety of data, but integrates multiple disciplines at the same time. With the understanding of sports, people will test the complex problems around the human body and how to correctly explain the results of clothing elements that can be designed technically.</span></p>

Sport in the Novels of James Joyce: A Discourse Theoretical Approach

ABSTRACT Among the many themes in which the Irish modernist novelist, James Joyce, was intellectually and emotionally engaged, the issue of British imperialism and Irish nationalism was paramount. While Joyce despised the English colonial occupation of his country, he was equally dismissive of a mythical Irish nationalism, particularly in the way it was endorsed by the Gaelic Athletic Association. While Joyce is not renowned as a writer of sport; nevertheless, sporting pursuits can be found throughout his novels. Joyce’s nuanced understanding of how English culture has permanently altered Irish social subjectivities (and vice versa) can be found in sharp relief in his novels, particularly Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This article takes sport as a theme in Joyce’s work through which to explore fractured national identities through a framework inspired by the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Their post-Marxist work enables an examination of sport and nationality that goes beyond the existing orthodox Gramscian theory that has proven so productive in the understanding of sport in Cultural Studies. The article will commence with a brief review of existing studies of Joyce with respect to sport and national debates. After summarising the broad Gramscian approaches to understanding sport and nationalism, some of the key concepts in Laclau and Mouffe’s political philosophy are then outlined. The article will apply those concepts to the way Joyce depicts sport, especially cricket and hockey, to deconstruct the binaries in the debate between British colonialism and Irish nationalism.

A Thematic Analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) State Party Reporting Mechanisms Related To Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport

Abstract The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) is the most ratified human rights treaty. In this article, three intimately connected concepts will be explored in relation to the framework of the State Party reporting mechanism related to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: physical education, physical activity and sport (pepas). A documentary analysis of three key document types from the Treaty Body reporting mechanisms was undertaken, including State Parties Reports (n = 104), List of Issues (n = 126) and Concerns/Observations and Recommendations (n = 797). There was a very low prevalence of the concepts of physical education, physical activity and, to a greater extent, sport, in these three reports. Seven themes emerged after the qualitative analysis: sport programmes, school-based sport, legislation and policies, key agents, interdisciplinary approach, enablers of sport and miscellaneous. Increased questioning of States with regards to their implementation of the right to sport, the issuance of pepas-based recommendations and guidance on how to achieve these rights from the Treaty Bodies would assist in solidifying understanding of sport as a human right and increase the impetus on States to act for pepas provision.

Application of internet of things information security in the informationization of sports training and education

In recent years, the information technology of the Internet of Things has been developed by leaps and bounds, and the development of hardware technology has promoted the development of software technology. New concepts, new applications and new products emerge endlessly. Computer vision technology has made great progress, and industrial cameras are developing rapidly and are widely used in real life. The realization of high-definition capture and imaging functions of industrial cameras creates conditions for obtaining scientific data. This article aims to study the application of information security of the Internet of Things in the informationization of sports training and education. Correctly and objectively evaluate and understand the information security level of the Internet of Things. The guidance of computerization of sports training and education is based on the continuous and effective comparison of the implementation effect of computerization and the development strategy, and then the improvement of computerization work. Formulate the correct information strategy and provide assistance in specific implementation. On the basis of benefit, pragmatism and overall planning, formulate the correct information strategy and provide assistance in specific implementation. On the basis of benefit pragmatism and overall planning. Through experiments to master the Internet information security mechanism and use experimental questionnaire surveys and other methods to explore the application of Internet of Things information security in the informationization of sports training education, modern education must make full use of information technology, introduce physical education classroom teaching, and realize modern teaching. The experimental results of this article show that the application effect of Internet of Things information security information technology in physical education has been significantly improved. 60% of students have created better conditions for the current informationization of physical training and education, so that students can not only learn theoretical knowledge, but also deepen the understanding of sports in information teaching.

Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices.

Sport and fitness have long been linked with healthy lifestyles, yet most sporting events and consumption practices are highly detrimental to the environment. While academics have examined the harmful effects of sporting mega-events and the production and consumption of sport equipment and clothing, there has been less engagement with the “mundane,” everyday activities of consuming, laundering, and recycling of fitness objects. In this paper, we explore the potential in feminist new materialisms for rethinking the complex relationships between sport, fitness, and the environment. In particular, we explain how our engagement with Karen Barad's theory of agential realism led us to rethink women's habitual fitness practices as connected to environmental degradation. Working with Barad's concept of entanglement, we came to notice new human-clothing-environment relationships, focusing on how athleisure clothing itself is an active, vital force that intra-acts with other non-human (and human) matter within the environment. Adopting a diffractive methodology that included reading interviews with women about their activewear practices, our own experiences, new materialist theory, and environmental literature through each other, we focus on two examples that emerged through this process: laundering and disposal practices. Through these examples, we demonstrate the ways in which new materialisms encouraged us to move toward non-anthropocentric understandings of the sport-environment relationship and toward new ethical practices in our everyday fitness lifestyles.

New materialisms, sport and the environment: imagining new lines of flight

ABSTRACT Written at a time when new ways of knowing, relating and responding to the environment appear more urgent than ever, this paper explores the potential of using new materialist theory for more-than-human understandings of sport and the environment. The paper consists of three parts. We begin by reviewing key trends in research on sport and the environment, before signaling the recent turn towards new materialist ontological principles to explore the intra-actions between sport, physical leisure and the natural environment. We then turn specifically to feminist new materialisms to examine the important contributions such theoretical strands offer for rethinking human and nonhuman entanglements with the environment. In the third and final part we take inspiration from feminist new materialisms to propose a research imaginary aimed towards opening new ‘lines of flight’ in sport and environment research, praxis and pedagogies, particularly in relation to: (i) methods, (ii) modes of representation, (iii) ethical understandings, and (iv) teaching tools. In so doing, we hope this paper encourages others to explore how feminist new materialist approaches might enable new noticings, vital respondings, and thus feminist ethics and response-abilities to (and with) the environments that our sporting and movement practices are already entangled.

Analysis and Research on the Application of Internet Technology in Sports Track and Field Teaching

Today, with the rapid development of the Internet era, the advancement of science and technology has gradually stepped into our daily lives as Internet technology. The Internet provides a great teaching platform for the innovative teaching methods of the physical education model, providing it with a wealth of physical education resources and informatization and modern teaching technology, in order to realize the reasonable application of Internet technology in the teaching of physical education and track and field. The real role of Internet technology. This paper conducts in-depth research on the practice of using Internet technology in sports track and field teaching, and finds that sports track and field teaching attaches great importance to and lacks in the application of Internet technology to assist teaching, and conducts in-depth analysis and research on the mode of teaching using Internet technology. This paper conducts research and investigation on the students of two experimental teaching classes in the University of Physical Education, and divides them into an experimental teaching class (N=50) and an experimental comparison class (N=50). The purpose is to use Internet technology in actual sports. The research of practice teaching in track and field teaching activities lays a good foundation for the next analysis. The article first analyzes the current status of the use of Internet technology in college sports track and field teaching, and then explores the necessity of its application by optimizing the sports track and field teaching mode and meeting the needs of modern physical education reform. This article takes the innovative research of college sports track and field teaching under the Internet technology as the topic, adopts the literature method, expert interview method, etc., to discuss how to better integrate information technology in the Internet era with college physical education, and then improve college students’ understanding of sports. Curriculum, and even sports interest and attention are discussed and researched, which provides reference information for the innovation of college physical education. The experimental research results show that this article combines Internet information technology with traditional teaching methods, through online and offline interactive teaching, promotes the interaction between teachers and students, improves the teaching effect, and improves the quality of teaching.

Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts

Existing literature on the work of sports chaplains has focused primarily on practitioner accounts of chaplaincy with elite athletes. While these narratives provide useful descriptions of personal experience and practical application, they are largely devoid of theoretical grounding. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by proposing the need for sports chaplains to have a more critical understanding of sport and its relational dynamics. We begin by problematizing some of the historical assumptions underpinning elite sport, especially in relation to identity formation. We then explore some of the moral dilemmas which may be experienced by Christian athletes who inhabit contemporary sporting contexts. In line with the work of established sociological scholars, we then move to a critical analysis of performance-based identity and how an understanding of sociological concepts and ideas might assist chaplains in their work with elite athletes. The paper concludes by identifying sports chaplains as key figures in the disruption of performance-based identity.

The soft power of Arab women’s football: changing perceptions and building legitimacy through social media

ABSTRACT Soft power refers to the ability to advance interests through persuasion without coercion and has often been described in its capacity to aid foreign policy. Within the sports realm, sport diplomacy has emerged as a way of strengthening diplomatic, social, and political relations. The extended understanding of the soft power of sport goes beyond the often-cited practice of hosting mega-events, to wider strategies, employed internationally or domestically, to achieve various objectives. This study examines the capacity of Arab women’s football committees to engage soft power to challenge local and international perceptions of gender norms and gain acceptance in the region. The utilisation of social media as a tool for generating soft power by women’s football committees, in the Arabian Gulf region, is explored. A one-year analysis of the Instagram activities of these accounts indicates two overarching aims: changing perceptions and building legitimacy. These aims are targeted through four identified mechanisms of sport social media soft power: Campaign Involvement; Community Engagement; Technical Displays and Event Hosting; and Enhancing Formal Ties. The article examines each mechanism as utilised within the social media accounts. A choice was made to focus on Instagram, given the application’s popularity in the region. The contribution of this study is two-fold. First, it expands the understanding of sport as a means of exercising soft power by presenting social media as an instrument for sport diplomacy in the Arab world. Second, it analyses the specific use of women’s success in sport to shape public perception and achieve international recognition.

Black Lives Matter in sport…?

PurposeIn this invited professional insight paper the author draws parallels between recent debates on racism, Black Lives Matter and related research in sport and cognate domains.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on Critical Race Theory (CRT) the paper contends that 1) sport is a contested site, 2) sport is a microcosm of society 3) “race” and everyday racism are central to our understanding of sport. It overlays this critique with a recognition of the dynamic and multi-dimensional nature of racisms.FindingsWhile the deaths of Black lives are being mourned it is argued that our attention can also become distracted by narrow manifestations of racism (overt). Such approaches leave key stakeholders efforts focused on the individual to the detriment of challenging systemic policies, practices and dispositions that entrench racism. The color-coded racism of past decades is still with us but in addition to this, our critiques and activism require continued surveillance of cultural, institutional and structural arrangements in the everyday that remain nebulous, complex and difficult to challenge.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a viewpoint paper. The author draws on previous original empirical work and current insights to draw parallels between sport, Black Lives Matter and broader social contexts. Due to limitations in the extant literature in regard to the section on cycling and ethnicity, examples are drawn primarily from the US and UK.Practical implicationsThis focus on sport and leisure past times demonstrates that the Black experience of “race” and racism transcends social boundaries and cannot be perceived as restricted to narrow social domains.Social implicationsRacisms are embedded in society and therefore its cultural products of which sport is a significant one should not be marginalised in antiracism efforts and activist scholarship.Originality/valueThis paper draws on the author's original published research and current insights. The paper makes a contribution to the development of critical race theorising to the sociology of sport, and broader ethnic and racial studies.

The Germans: no sports but only drills and exercises?

The essay is an attempt to critically discuss the assumption, whether sport can be a means to compensate social constraints in the routines of life in modern societies. The thesis is crucial for the sociological concept and translation of the German original text “Über die Deutschen” understanding of sport as considered in the work of Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning (1996). In consequence, this thesis is also relevant for the vision of Olympic sport to contribute for a more peaceful life through bodily education, sports and games. In this essay, the body culture in Germany is mainly respected. Historical research on gymnastics, sports, and games in German society and culture since about 1900 suggests that German society did indeed provide, through games and sports, and particularly for its younger members, ‘sufficient opportunities for the enjoyable excitement of a struggle’. However, instead of a prospering culture of sports, the Germans descended into barbarism only a few years later when the Nazi regime came to power.

To ‘fan the spirit of race hatred’: lawn tennis, propaganda and Germanophobia during the Great War

ABSTRACT This study considers the various ways that tennis was implicated within First World War propaganda; more specifically, to consider tennis as both a lens to view and a context to understand and communicate perspectives about the war from a British perspective. In the midst of heightened nationalism, jingoism and Germanophobia, tennis featured in broader debates in both the mainstream and sporting press as a site of contested meanings of British national identity. This was seen through poetry and cartoons alongside public correspondence through letters to editors and various published discussions. These messages typically defended Britain’s amateur games culture, utilising constructions of ‘sportsmanship’ to distinguish British and German approaches, while denigrating Germany’s more functionalistic understanding of sport’s role in training. These messages were far from one-sided, as some British correspondents sought to defend German tennis players as somehow ‘above’ their barbarous brethren in ethics. Moreover, through tennis, Germans also communicated their objections to Britain’s apparently more ‘frivolous’ attitude toward sport and warfare. Thus, narratives were diverse and conflicting, and were indicative of ongoing confusions expressed publicly about the supposed role of amateur sport as a site of political expression.

Sport and UK soft power: The case of Mount Everest

Sport is widely acknowledged as an important contributor to the United Kingdom’s soft power resources. This article aims to broaden and deepen our understanding of sport and soft power in the United Kingdom through a case study of British expeditions to, and the eventual conquest of, Mount Everest. Based on original archival research, the article demonstrates that British state institutions intervened systematically and strategically to expedite, and massage the story of, the ascent of Everest to burnish British prestige and present a favourable image to the world. In doing so, the article provides evidence that sport has been intrinsic to the United Kingdom’s diplomatic repertoire and soft power assets for considerably longer than existing accounts discern. Moreover, the Everest case offers important cues for contemporary policymakers. In particular, it demonstrates the need for the United Kingdom to project a clear, credible and consistent image if it is to profit from its soft power resources.

OLYMPIC EDUCATION AND ITS ROLE IN SOLVING GLOBAL ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Olympic education suggests the absorption of the Olympic idea at the conceptual and practical levels. The Olympic charter treats this idea as the philosophy of life encouraging individuals for comprehensive and harmonic development. However, specific ways of achieving this objective are still to be determined. Research methods and organization. This article is an attempt of enhancement of conceptual understanding of sports in the framework of philosophy and cultural analysis. In our research, we consider general notions of sport struggle in Ancient Greece. Results of the research. The culture of Greece has rightly been proclaimed to be agonal. A Greek deliberately maintains his position in the interpersonal relations in the framework of individual and externally evident rival considered as a basis for peace. It is significant, that a sport competition for a Greek is the top version of agonality. It reveals the true human nature and determines the truth of the philosophy of success, which is common for competitors. Conclusion. There is a difference between modern and Greek sports. At the same time, modern sport is still the highest type of agonality. It is fully represented in its true nature as a constant struggle against ambiguity of the human being, search for self-realization. In this regard, it is able to become an effective tool for the increase of human outlook competence and an efficient factor of overcoming contradictions of intercultural relations. Sport is a concentrated expression of the truth of human life. Its assimilation is the Olympic education in its highest manifestation.