Constructing Meaning in Sport
(2014) SIMV15 20131Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
Graduate School
Education
- Abstract
- Combining the fields of sport, gender and pedagogy within the setting of voluntary sports clubs, this thesis studies floorball as a pedagogical context within which the floorball players construct meaning of their sporting practice.
Based on interviews with five Danish male floorball players and their experiences with playing floorball, this thesis analyzes how the floorball players construct the team fellowship in their sport, how they ascribe meaning to the violence in their sport, and how they construct their body and identity in their sport through discourses. Using Michel Foucault (1983, 1991) and social constructionism (Burr, 2003), this thesis shows how the male floorball players in the relation to their teammates construct... (More) - Combining the fields of sport, gender and pedagogy within the setting of voluntary sports clubs, this thesis studies floorball as a pedagogical context within which the floorball players construct meaning of their sporting practice.
Based on interviews with five Danish male floorball players and their experiences with playing floorball, this thesis analyzes how the floorball players construct the team fellowship in their sport, how they ascribe meaning to the violence in their sport, and how they construct their body and identity in their sport through discourses. Using Michel Foucault (1983, 1991) and social constructionism (Burr, 2003), this thesis shows how the male floorball players in the relation to their teammates construct knowledge about their sporting practice, and how, by taking part in the discourses, by learning them and using them, the players construct themselves as male floorball players and they construct what it means, for them, to play floorball. (Less)
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- author
- Buhr, Nina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Male floorball players' construction of the team fellowship, the match, the body, and identity
- course
- SIMV15 20131
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Male athletes, floorball, discourses, identity, learning, gender, team fellowship, discipline, match, violence.
- language
- English
- id
- 4281111
- date added to LUP
- 2014-02-13 15:12:56
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:37:03
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