- Title
- What if curriculum theorists were to share centre stage after school hours?
- Creator
- O'Meara, James; Spittle, Michael
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/36494
- Identifier
- vital:3295
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781875864645
- Abstract
- The after school hours time period is seen as a critical time for encouraging children between the ages of 5-7 to be active and play more sport. Often, existing age-appropriate junior sport programs represent a form of curriculum used in this time period. The curriculum in these programs is based on non-competitive, modified activities to minimise the risk of emotional harm to children and prepare them to play the mature form of the game. This paper uses Marsh and Willis' curriculum continuum to advocate an alternative perspective on addressing the needs of those children wishing to have rules and competition in the games they play as they participate in junior sports development programs. This perspective is supported by an analysis of two of the age-appropriate junior sport programs. Examples are drawn from the comments of Executive Officers, Program Officers, delivers, and parents. Key themes running through the comments were that some children were being discouraged from continued participation in sport due to the removal of competition and a feeling that they were not playing a version of the game they recognised.
- Publisher
- Australian Curriculum Studies Association
- Relation
- Paper presented at 2007 National Biennial Conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association: Curriculum Centre Stage: Inclusivity, Creativity and Diversity, Melbourne : 7th-10th July 2007
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Children; Junior sport programs; Physical activity; Sport; Competition
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