Facilitating Sports and University Study: The Case of a Dual Career Development Environment in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Lukas Linnér ◽  
Natalia Stambulova ◽  
Louise Kamuk Storm ◽  
Andreas Kuettel ◽  
Kristoffer Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Career Support ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Support Team ◽  
Performance Development

This case study of a dual career development environment (DCDE) was informed by the holistic ecological approach (HEA) and aimed at (a) providing a holistic description of a DCDE at university level in Sweden and (b) investigating the perceived factors influencing the environment’s effectiveness in facilitating the development of student-athletes. The authors blended in situ observations, interviews, and document analysis to explore the case, and HEA-informed working models were transformed into empirical models summarizing the case. Findings show a well-coordinated DCDE with the key role of coaches in daily dual career support and how efforts were integrated through a dual career-support team sharing a philosophy of facilitating healthy performance development and life balance, with a whole-person and empowerment approach. This study adds to the literature by identifying features of a successful DCDE, and insights from the case can be useful for practitioners in their quest to optimize their DCDEs and support.

scholarly journals Exploring the Life Form of a Student Athlete Afforded by a Dual Career Development Environment in Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Korhonen ◽  
Aku Nikander ◽  
Tatiana V. Ryba
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
Private Domain

The current paper introduces a case study conducted in one of the most well-established athletic talent development environments in Finland, with the focus on the environment’s ecological dynamics and organizational culture, in light of its recent effort to rebrand itself as a dual career development environment. Our analysis has been inspired by the holistic ecological approach and ecological dynamics, wherein the authors have considered a dual career development environment from the point of view of its transactions with agentic individuals and affordances for student athletes in the study domain, the sports domain, and the private domain. The authors believe our findings can provide other sports environments with insight into what to consider when transforming the organizational culture of an environment to better aid their student athletes in realizing their dual career goals.

scholarly journals Stoichiometry and disorder influence over electronic structure in nanostructured VOx films

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D’Elia ◽  
S. J. Rezvani ◽  
N. Zema ◽  
F. Zuccaro ◽  
M. Fanetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Distorted Octahedral Geometry ◽  
Edge Structure ◽  
Distorted Octahedral ◽  
X Ray Absorption ◽  
Complex Matter ◽  
Nanometric Size

AbstractWe present and discuss the role of nanoparticles size and stoichiometry over the local atomic environment of nanostructured VOx films. The samples have been characterized in situ using X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy identifying the stoichiometry-dependent fingerprints of disordered atomic arrangement. In vanadium oxides, the ligand atoms arrange according to a distorted octahedral geometry depending on the oxidation state, e.g. trigonal distortion in V2O3 and tetragonal distortion in bulk VO2. We demonstrate, taking VO2 as a case study, that as a consequence of the nanometric size of the nanoparticles, the original ligands symmetry of the bulk is broken resulting in the coexistence of a continuum of distorted atomic conformations. The resulting modulation of the electronic structure of the nanostructured VOx as a function of the oxygen content reveals a stoichiometry-dependent increase of disorder in the ligands matrix. This work shows the possibility to produce VOx nanostructured films accessing new disordered phases and provides a unique tool to investigate the complex matter.

scholarly journals The Experience of Dual Career through Slovak Athletes’ Eyes

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Geraniosova ◽  
Noora Ronkainen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Career Support ◽  
Sport Science ◽  
Athletic Career

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine how Slovak athletes experience dual career (the combination of an athletic career with education and/or work). The study strived to gain an understanding of the athletes’ attitudes towards education as well as perceived difficulties and supporting elements in pursuing dual career. Five athletes were interviewed once for approx. 105 min. The interviews and data analysis were based on Intepretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and the interviews were focused on their experience in combining an athletic career with education or work. The athletes experienced dual career as manageable as long as they were assisted by at least simple supportive structures and provided flexible arrangements. Peers had played an important role in athletes’ decision-making concerning dual career and in providing social support when facing challenges within dual career. The teachers’ prejudice against the athletes based on their athletic role and the lack of dual career structures appeared to be significant deficiencies in dual career support. Finally, the analysis revealed the negative perception of athletes and sport science students by educational representatives. This perception may be a hurdle to be overcome in future dual career development.

Age-Segregated and Gated Retirement Communities in the Third Age: The Differential Contribution of Place — Community to Self-Actualization

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan J Townshend
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Retirement Communities ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
Indicator Variables ◽  
Residential Context ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Potential Contributor

The author focuses on the role of place-based community both in in-situ aging and in age-segregated (often gated and walled) retirement villages within cities as a potential contributor towards self-actualization. Elderly individuals in a case study in Calgary, Alberta, were measured on the short index of self actualization and a series of multivariate ‘structures’ of place — community associated with behavioral, cognitive, and affective features of community derived from a principal components analysis of community indicator variables. Self-actualization tendencies were not found to differ by residential context. Multiple regression models showed a similar overall contribution of all community structures to self-actualization in the different residential contexts, but different sets of community structures were identified as unique and significant predictors of self-actualization in the two residential settings. This differential impact may signal that a variety of forms and structures of person–environment congruence amongst the elderly yield similar psychological outcomes.

scholarly journals Career Development of Indonesian National Police: The Case Study Analysis of Police Grand Comissioner Rank

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Mustafa Hari Kuncoro ◽  
Billy Tunas ◽  
Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Police

It was important for Indonesian National Police organizations to be able to managed their human resources through good management by giving employees or members the opportunity to advance. Human resources in one organization had an important role of Indonesian National Police experiences a surplus of members with the position of Police Grand Commissioner. As of the beginning of 2019, this institution had around 1,400 members serving as middle officers. Most of these officers did not get outside structural positions. The development system of the right police career pattern was able to provide direction for individual police officers to developed themselves. The purposed of this research was to analyzed case studies related to the career development of the Police Grand Commissioner ranked that took place at the Institution of Indonesian National Police. This research used a qualitative approach with a case study method. This study concluded that career development was an police's efforts to achieve a career plan. In this case, there were organizational efforts in the form of programs and activities to assisted the career development of Police Grand Commissioner personnel. Another important thing was related to education and training provided to Police Grand Commissioner personnel must be in accordance with the requirements needed, so that the quality improvement of Police Grand Commissioner personnel would be truly fulfilled and aimed to developing police competencies and careers in accordanced with the needs and challenges of Grand Commissioner Police personnel performance.

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