Various discourses construct youth sport as a site for pleasure and participation, for positive development, for performance and for protection/safeguarding. Elite youth sport however continues to be a site for emotionally abusive coaching behaviour. Little attention has been paid to how the institutional …

This study analyses the determinants of cycling expenditure by means of a Tobit regression analysis, based on a dataset of 5,157 cyclists. Using a heterodox economic framework, 23 different variables are combined into two commonly used variable groups (socio-demographics, sports intensity variables) …

An increasing share of light sports participants (e.g. self-organised runners) challenge traditional ‘Sport for All’ policy systems to target a more diversified array of people participating in sport and physical activity. The main aim of this article is to analyse whether light sport facilities, as …

Over the last 40 years, Sport for All policies – aiming at encouraging the sports participation of all citizens, regardless of age, sex, social class, ethnic origin, etc. – were implemented in a number of European countries. This study examines the extent to which a democratisation of club-organised …

Sports constitute a basis of fun for many (young) people and can contribute to important social developments. Sport can also yield opposite results:: arrogance, bullying, (sexual) intimidation, discrimination. Effects are largely influenced by the context of (youth) sport participation. In facing the …

Participate! Cultuurparticipatie & sociale cohesie. Muziekverenigingen spelen van oudsher een grote rol in het sociaal-culturele leven in de huidige Noordelijke krimpregio's. De afgelopen decennia traden orkesten steeds meer uit de schaduw van de kerktoren in het dorp. Lukt het ze ook vandaag nog om …

Inleiding by symposium Onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Cultuurparticipatie

Paper presentatie op symposium LKCA onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Cultuurparticipatie

Presentatie dissertatie 'Musicking in Groningen' in Master Kunsteducatie van Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 9/11/2015.

Paper gepresenteerd tijdens 6. Tagung Netzwerk Forschung Kulturelle Bildung ‘Kultur, Macht, Bildung’, Lüneburg, DE