Culturally Informed Sport Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Schinke ◽  
Zella E. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Culturally Informed

Sport psychologists work with athletes from a vast array of cultural backgrounds. Numerous factors comprise the cultural composition of both the client and the practitioner, including, though not necessarily limited to, ethnicity, socioeconomic background and status, race, socialization, sexual orientation, religion, gender, and geographic location. These intersecting and often deeply ingrained personal variables can certainly impact the nature of the therapeutic relationship, intervention strategies, and intervention outcomes with athletic clientele. Yet, while other domains of professional psychology have long embraced the integration of cultural aspects, the field of sport psychology has been slow to join the dialogue or to learn from these relevant sources. Therefore, this special issue of the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology was conceptualized and constructed with the intention of opening these lines of discussion to help ensure that sport psychologists are gaining a comprehensive understanding of the athletes with whom they work, demonstrating respect for and integration of cultural constructs in the treatment room, and maintaining personal and professional self-awareness. As Co-Editors of this unique special issue, Drs. Robert Schinke and Zella Moore provide the present paper to begin this important dialogue. This paper sets the stage for six informative articles by leading professionals in their areas, including both theoretical articles and articles highlighting culturally informed direct service provision with athletes from around the world. We hope that this timely special issue leads to numerous additional questions, cutting-edge research ideas, and most importantly, an enhanced or renewed commitment from sport psychologists to integrate the concepts found within these pages, and those already found within the professional literature of mainstream psychology, into their daily work with athletes.

scholarly journals Spending Time in the Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rieke Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Access Point ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Nineteenth Century American Literature ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
American Literary History

This special issue of New American Studies Journal: A Forum looks at nineteenth-century American literature and culture through the analytical lens of free time and leisure. This analytical framework affords a novel access point to American literary history—free time, as this special issue will explore, is a highly contested and politicized concept and resource of the nineteenth century, one that restructures temporalities and spaces. Nineteenth-century American culture and literature can be understood as an archive to explore free time as a significant social and economic innovation into the texture of individual life. The contributions to this special issue explore the rise of free time in the nineteenth century with particular attention toward temporal and spatial reconfigurations that free time afforded. Furthermore they explore the societal and cultural aspects of free time that grew around the logics and logistics of nineteenth-century capitalism—a social formation that made leisure, time off work, not merely possible, but that created entire industries and spaces for leisure and repose.

Culturally Informed Sport Psychology Practice: Nigeria in Perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philomena B. Ikulayo ◽  
Johnson A. Semidara
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Intrinsic And Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Practice Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Multicultural Practices

This article discusses unorthodox sport psychology practices typical with Nigerian athletes, which differ from Western mainstream practice models. These practices are specific Nigerian cultural approaches to sport psychology and are based on two broad types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The intrinsic aspects include prayers, chanting of songs, verbalization of incantations, psyching verses, and juju and spirits in motivational processes. The extrinsic strategies include praise singing, audience verbalization, drumming effects, persistent silent audiences’ effects, and presence of important persons as spectators or part of the audience. The article concludes with the hope that some of these unique practice strategies will be further researched and will be viable for adoption by athletes in other nations of the world who believe in their power so that multicultural practices can help advance the field of sport psychology.

Some Psychological Correlates of Civil Rights Activity

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy A. Evans ◽  
Sheldon Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
External Control ◽  
Ego Strength ◽  
Psychological Correlates ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Group Memberships

Northern Negroes and whites at varying levels of participation in college student civil rights groups were compared with selected groups of northern, Negro non-members of civil rights groups on a number of personality and demographic variables (race, geographic location). Negro Actives showed more repression and ego strength than Negto non-actives. White Actives showed less social approval motivation and less repression than Negro Actives. In contrast to studies of southern Negroes, in this study, Negro Actives came from a lower socioeconomic background than Negro non-actives; internal vs external control of reinforcement and number of non-civil rights group memberships were unrelated to civil rights activity level. Factors other than activity level are important in predicting personality and demographic differences among civil rights activists and non-activists. The importance of additonal empirical research is also discussed.

scholarly journals What is culturally informed psychiatry? Cultural understanding and withdrawal in the clinical encounter

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Birgitte Leseth
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Encounter ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Transcultural Communication ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

SummaryWhat is culturally informed psychiatry? What does it mean, and why is it important? These questions are discussed with a focus on the cultural aspects of the clinical encounter. The DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation was developed as a method of assessing the cultural factors affecting the clinical encounter. It calls for the assessment of the cultural features of the relationship between the patient and the clinician; however, there is a lack of debate about what this means in practice. Clinicians run the risk of withdrawal rather than cultural understanding when facing patients with different cultural backgrounds. Using ethnographic material from anthropological fieldwork, I suggest that the encounter with cultural differences could be a useful point of departure for the clinician to develop cultural understanding. It is argued that recognising the experiences of differences is crucial in strengthening transcultural communication and preventing misdiagnosis in the clinician–patient encounter.

scholarly journals A commentary on the Special Issue “Innovations in measuring and fostering mathematical modelling competencies”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Frejd ◽  
Pauline Vos
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Student Collaboration ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
Modelling Cycle ◽  
Modelling Competencies

This is a commentary on the ESM 2021 Special Issue on Innovations in Measuring and Fostering Mathematical Modelling Competencies. We have grouped the ten studies into three themes: competencies, fostering, and measuring. The first theme and the papers therein provide a platform to discuss the cognitivist backgrounds to the different conceptualizations of mathematical modelling competencies, based on the modelling cycle. We suggest theoretical widening through a competence continuum and enriching of the modelling cycle with overarching, analytic dimensions for creativity, tool use, metacognition, and so forth. The second theme and the papers therein showcase innovative ideas on fostering and on the definition and analysis thereof. These reveal the need for a social turn in modelling research in order to capture aspects of student collaboration and agency, as well as tensions in fostering when tasks are derived from real-world scenarios, but socio-mathematical norms come from the (pure) mathematics classroom. The third theme, measuring, and the papers therein offer insights into the challenges of positivist research that aims to develop innovative measurement instruments that are both reliable and valid, particularly in light of student group work, cultural background, and other socio-cultural aspects. Drawing on the three discussions, we go on to make recommendations for further research.

scholarly journals WHY DOES IT MATTER? EXPLAINING THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES TO FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Donald ◽  
Sofie Lachapelle ◽  
Thomas Sasso ◽  
Kyle Augusto ◽  
M. Gloria Gonzalez-Morales
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The University

While complementary studies are an accreditation requirement and feature prominently in the Canadian engineering curriculum, focus-group conversations with upper-year engineering students have indicated that a lack of awareness of, and appreciation for, soft skills development often prevents students from benefiting from complementary studies to the fullest. Given this reported difficulty to grasp the importance of complementary studies, a study was undertaken at the University of Guelph using a quasi-experimental design to explore the possibility that triggering self-assessment and awareness about career development early in the engineering curriculum promotes greater engagement with complementary studies and soft-skill development. First-year engineering students took part in a learner-centered activity focused on the importance of complementary studies for the development of soft skills. Through active learning exercises and case studies of successful engineering graduates, who described the skills and knowledge required to perform their daily work, the session was designed to encourage students to develop greater self-awareness and intentionality about complementary studies and their associated graduate attributes. The outcomes of this activity and issues on how to embed it in the Engineering first-year curriculum will be discussed

scholarly journals IDEOLOGICALLY-EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF TOURISM SPECIALISTS’ TRAINING IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING THE COURSE OF «PHILOSOPHY»

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Anatolii YAROVYI
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Education ◽  
Human Spirituality ◽  
Educational Professional

The article deals with the social functions of philosophical factors in the formation of a modern model of tourism specialist. This model is formed and considered in accordance with the basic normative educational document - the Standard of higher education in the specialty 242 "Tourism" of the field of knowledge 24 "Sphere of service" by educational and professional program (OPP). The author makes a sample of some of the general competences provided by the educational-professional program of preparation of bachelors in the specialty "Tourism" and monitors the provision of appropriate substantiation of the nature of their provision in teaching the course "Philosophy". It is also substantiated that the philosophical and cultural approach in the system of tourism education allows the whole tourism industry to reach a higher level of self-awareness and adequately reflect a deeper understanding of tourism not just as a combination of travel and entertainment, but as a powerful factor in integrating and generating human spirituality. The author monitors these positions on the example of philosophical and cultural provision of relevant competencies of tourism specialists.

The Reception of the Bible in the Construction of Masculinities in Jewish and Christian Con/Texts

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter-Ben Smit ◽  
Ovidiu Creangă ◽  
Adriaan van Klinken
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Embodied Practice

AbstractThe introduction to this special issue reviews the articles collected and presented in the volume. After an overview of the contents, the chapter turns to a more refined discussion of the insights resulting from the collection. These insights concern the productivity as well as limitations of canonicity, the importance of contextuality, the embodied practice of masculinity and the subsequent need to acknowledge intersectionality, and finally, it problematizes the rhetoric of ‘tradition(al)’ or ‘biblical’ masculinity. Mapping the future of the study of biblical reception and masculinities, the introduction identifies key issues and areas for further research. These are the necessity of a greater emphasis on multidisciplinarity, the need to demonstrating hermeneutical self-awareness, and a broadening of the scope of the field to include the Qur’an and Muslim cultures as well as newly emerging forms of Christianity in the global South. These features are key to the study of the reception of biblical masculinities going forward.

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