1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Child Development in Sports Groups
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02680123
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
体育学
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| Research Institution | Okayama Prefectural Junior College |
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Principal Investigator |
INUKAI Yoshihide Okayama Prefectural Junior college, Assistant professor, 体育科, 助教授 (40123814)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1990 – 1991
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| Keywords | Peer Group / Sport Group / Socialization |
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| Research Abstract |
From the point of view of social development in childhood, the main features of childhood can be said to exist in children's participation and socialization in peer groups. However, recently the po\%, er of peer groups over their members has been weakened by changes in children's play. Organized sports have become a main feature in play-society in childhood, but at the same time coaches' intervention in children's sports has become a problem.
The purpose of this paper was to discuss whether a highly organized sports group can facilitate any efficient development in childhood and 'to attempt to construct a theory on the arrangement of sports groups with less help from adults. This is an attempt to survey several results of these sports groups. I have reconsidered the theory of how children's sports is their culture, and have clarified that child development in sports groups are primarily influence by their peers.
The results were as follows :
1. Many sports groups today prevent the children from adopting earnest and energetic attitudes toward sports activities.
2. Child development has been accomplished in adult culture and aL the same time it is important to realize that their full development is attained through children's involvement in the culture of the child.
3. A child's development depends largely on one's ability to adjust to the inconsistencies between the personal objective of the individual and that of the group.
4. Through interaction with other peers, children can internalize the specific tendency of their sports group and are able to deal with the many tasks of their sports groups without much help from coaches or adults.
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Research Products
(6 results)
