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| Title: | Silent voices: Consulting children in sport |
| Authors: | Brackenridge, C H |
| Date of Issue: | 2004 |
| Citation: | Annual conference of the Leisure Studies Association, Leeds Metropolitan University, July 2004. |
| Abstract: | Despite being outnumbered by the over 60s in the 2001 Census, the children and young people have assumed a central role in the UK political agenda and are protected by several international statutes and directives. At the same time, leisure and sport researchers have been responsive to the political imperative for stakeholder consultation that characterises modern leisure policy. Focus groups, surveys and other tools of the social researcher’s trade have been used extensively in research that serves the needs of leisure industry clients across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Yet, arguably, the opinions of children and young people have not been seriously taken into account in the changes to policy and practice that result from such research. Young peoples’ patterns of leisure consumption, highly influenced by commercial cultural forms, can either confirm or, often, contradict the rational recreation messages promulgated by government. The introduction of national standa... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2438/626 |
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | Sport Sciences School of Sport and Education Research Papers |
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