The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how young football players experience combining sports-related upper secondary education with being a player at a high national level. More specifically, this study will look at players' experience of the opportunity to complete a "dual career"...
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Sæther, S. A.; Nygaard, A.; Johansen, B. T.; Erikstad, M.
Publisher
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2021, 12, 85-111, pp 85-111
Using social innovation as a theoretical framework, this article investigates who participates in Norwegian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) clubs; if the emergence of MMA contributes to increased social inclusion in Norwegian sport; and finally, if and how the emergence of MMA can be interpreted as social ...
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2018, 9, pp 1-24
In this article the leadership style of a national football coach, in the context of the rationality of professional sport, where victory trumps everything, is being studied. The question discussed is whether the coach used his frequently communicated transformational leadership style as well as a...
Author(s)
Andersen, T. L.
Publisher
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
Citation
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2020, 11, 1–24, pp 1-24
In Norway, the central elite sport organization, Olympiatoppen, has the overall responsibility for coordinating and supporting all elite sport efforts. Part of this is the responsibility for the Norwegian participation in the Olympic Games. This study focuses on the 2010 Vancouver project, and...
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Andersen, S. A.; Hanstad, D. V.
Publisher
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2011, 2, pp 75-98
The idea that sport participation is a necessary part of a healthy lifestyle (the sport-health ideology) is one of the most socially pervasive ideas in modern western societies. The sport-health ideology presupposes that there is a linear correlation between sport and health, and that this...
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2020, 11, 43–67, pp 43-67
Volume 1 begins by describing the origin of organized sport in Norway from 1861 to 1893. By the 1890s there were many sports, imported as well as Norwegian in origin such as skiing and shooting. Objectives varied from general well-being to competition. Politics played a part, with the result that...
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Olstad, F.; Tønnesson, S.
Publisher
H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Olso, Norway
Citation
Norsk idretts historie - forsvar, sport, klassekamp 1861-1939; folkehelse, trim, stjerner 1939-1986., 1987, pp 347pp.; 400pp.
Organized and voluntary sport and the school subject physical education have historically been tightly interwoven in Norway. In this study, organized and voluntary sport and physical education are considered as two fields as described by Bourdieu, in the search for answering the research question:...
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Skille, E. Å.; Moen, K. M.
Publisher
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
Citation
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2021, 12, 135-157, pp 135-157
Skateboarding has gained increasing popularity in Norway and Northern Europe. With increasing popularity, the traditions and identities traditionally associated with skateboarding are challenged. In this article, we utilize Guttmann's seven characteristics of modern sport to discuss the ongoing...
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Tjønndal, A.; Hjelseth, A.; Lenneis, V.
Publisher
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
Citation
Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2019, 10, pp 89-116
Since the early 2000s The Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) has encountered challenges related to organisational culture, accountability, and transparency. As a NIF-commissioned committee ("Åpenhetsutvalget") as a response to these challenges published the report Innsyn, åpenhet og tillit in...
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 2019, 10, pp 177-199
The national program for monitoring escaped farmed salmon, which was designed and established on behalf of the Directorate of Fisheries following instructions from the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries in 2014, has quantified the incidence of escaped farmed salmon in 178 watercourses in 2021. The...
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Wennevik, V.; Ambjørndalen, V. M.; Aronsen, T.; Bakke, G.; Diserud, O.; Fiske, P.; Fjeldheim, P. T.; Florø-Larsen, B.; Heino, M.; Næsje, T.; Skaala, Ø.; Stöger, E.; Skoglund, H.; Solberg, I.; Solberg, M. F.; Sægrov, H.; Tønder, T. S.; Urdal, K.; Utne, K. R.
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Havforskningsinstituttet (Institute for Marine Research), Bergen, Norway
Citation
Rapport fra Havforskningen, 2022, 2022-21, pp 59 pp.