TY - JOUR
T1 - How to stay becoming
T2 - living up to the code of conduct in a sports class
AU - Skrubbeltrang, Lotte Stausgaard
AU - Olesen, Jesper Stilling
AU - Nielsen, Jens Christian
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this article we show how a hybridisation of elite sport and school in lower-secondary education in Denmark produces a particular kind of learning subject with dual tracks for development, and we ask what kind of actions the students apply in order to stay becoming along both tracks. We apply theoretical conceptions of ‘becoming’ inspired by Brembeck and Johansson that allow us to understand how the sports students live up to the code of conduct of the sports classes. The article is based on an ethnographic study carried out in four schools located in four regions of Denmark. We argue that the hybrid obliges students to follow a narrow developmental track with an ambitious goal of performing in both sport and school, and that the hybrid is threatened when a sports student prioritises either sport or school while he/she is still enrolled in the class.
AB - In this article we show how a hybridisation of elite sport and school in lower-secondary education in Denmark produces a particular kind of learning subject with dual tracks for development, and we ask what kind of actions the students apply in order to stay becoming along both tracks. We apply theoretical conceptions of ‘becoming’ inspired by Brembeck and Johansson that allow us to understand how the sports students live up to the code of conduct of the sports classes. The article is based on an ethnographic study carried out in four schools located in four regions of Denmark. We argue that the hybrid obliges students to follow a narrow developmental track with an ambitious goal of performing in both sport and school, and that the hybrid is threatened when a sports student prioritises either sport or school while he/she is still enrolled in the class.
KW - becoming
KW - development
KW - education
KW - ethnography
KW - sport
KW - Talent
U2 - 10.1080/17457823.2015.1109467
DO - 10.1080/17457823.2015.1109467
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84948145116
SN - 1745-7823
VL - 11
SP - 371
EP - 387
JO - Ethnography and Education
JF - Ethnography and Education
IS - 3
ER -