Browsing by Supervisor "Pope, Clive C."
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How a game sense coaching approach impacts on the learning experience for teenage rugby players
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Rugby is the national game in New Zealand and has played a significant part in the lives of many New Zealanders. More recently there has been a steady decline in the number of youths engaging with rugby (and organised sport ... -
Whānau aspirations, extracurricular activity and positive youth development: The leisure activity patterns and narratives of successful young Māori men and how they might inform urban whānau raising tamatāne.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The purpose of this research is to offer parents and whānau (extended family groups) insight about the kinds of leisure activities that might make a positive contribution to their boys’ development. Focused on the positive ... -
It's Personal and it's Professional: The meanings women Baby-boomers attribute to their ageing and 'working-out' with a personal trainer.
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Greater numbers of older populations is the emerging norm for all countries, and something that triggered the World Health Organization to revise its 2002 global ageing strategy. In the 2015 document, greater emphasis is ... -
Developing Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education: The Contextualised Appropriation of Sport Education
(University of Waikato, 2015)Social and emotional learning (SEL) is increasingly recognised as beneficial for students’ mental health and academic learning. Despite the growing SEL research in general education, SEL remains largely under-explored and ... -
Youth sport in Trinidad and Tobago: Extending the possibilities and pathways for post-secondary school participation
(University of Waikato, 2016)Sport in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) emerged out of centuries of occupation by different colonisers becoming more entrenched through the influences of the British. Continued but intermittent successes at the international ... -
Ko au te whenua, te whenua ko au – I am the land, the land is me: An autoethnographic investigation of a secondary school teacher’s experience seeking to enrich learning in outdoor education for Māori students.
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis is my story as an outdoor educator, as a researcher, and a co-participant reflecting on my own actions and experiences as well as those of my students. In this autoethnography I share my revelations and tensions ... -
Life as a Carded Athlete
(University of Waikato, 2014)In 2001 the Ministerial Taskforce for Sport, Leisure and Fitness presented the Graham Report to the New Zealand government. The authors of this document had been invited to assess the state of sport within New Zealand and ... -
Why do youth step out of sport and into court? A narrative-based exploration
(University of Waikato, 2012)Motivated by my son’s incarceration months after he stopped playing sport this thesis attempts to answer the questions that plagued me as I began dealing with lawyers, courts, and prison visits: If sport is all that it is ...
