Welke betekenis heeft een Krajicek Playground voor de persoonlijke ontwikkeling van kinderen, sportleiders en scholarshippers en de ontwikkelingen van organisaties en vrijwilligers in de wijk, meer in het bijzonder in relatie tot sociale veiligheid en gezondheid?
This interdisciplinary research project investigates how violence among young people in amateur football arises and can be prevented and non-violent interaction stimulated. It will focus on the tension between the need to safeguard sport as a site where young people can freely express and assert themselves and the need to provide a safe and inclusive environment for all participants. Specifically, the project asks what the effects of person-environment transactions, the role of gender performances, notions of competition and the workings of peer pressure, social norms and legal rules are on the behaviour of young footballers. Using a mixed methods approach, the project will develop an integrated multi-level analysis of violent behaviour among young people in amateur football clubs. The first of its kind, this innovative project will produce novel interdisciplinary insights into violence in amateur football and the key mechanisms that cause or impede it. The project will also produce important new knowledge and evidence that can inform the government objective of fostering a safer sporting climate and enhance the capacity of the community sport sector to promote the development of prosocial behaviours, skills and identities in children and adolescents. The research has an excellent potential for future external funding.
Onderzoek dat zich richt op
1) Het in beeld brengen van de ontwikkeling die moeilijk opvoedbare kinderen doormaken tijdens het naschoolse talentenprogramma van de Ruud van Nistelrooy Academy, vanuit het perspectief van de kinderen en hun sociale omgeving
2) Het ontwikkelen van een monitoring systematiek die de ontwikkelingen van kinderen de komende jaren systematisch in beeld brengt.