Abstract: Participation and ultimately success in any sport depends on a range of factors. These factors can be organised into five groups according to Peter Figueroa who was a sociologist who developed a framework to analyse racism within society, particularly to look at how equity and access to society’s resources are affected by a person’s race. This framework can also be applied to other aspects of sociology, including equity and access in sport. At FLSHS swimming participation is extremely low. This report will go into detail of the first two levels of Figueroa’s framework, individual and interpersonal and how they relate to equity and access in relationship to swimming at Forest Lake State School.
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- Background
- Figueroa’s Famework - Individual Level - Interpersonal - Access and equality - recommendations - bibliography Background: Forest Lake State High School (FLSHS) is situated in Brisbane’s south west bordering on the municipality of ipswich. …show more content…
Forest Lake State High School provides educational programs for over 1400 students in years 7-12 in a coeducational environment. The school comprises of a junior secondary school (years 7,8 and 9) and a senior school (years 10,11 and 12). The school has identifiable cultural groups of Polynesians, africans and vietnamese along with European Australians. Many students come from a low to middle socio-economic background. Sport at FLSHS consists predominantly around the football codes of rugby laugher, soccer and touch football. These along with basket ball and volleyball make up the sporting backbone of the school. Swimming does not feature strongly as a sport at FLSHS but there is an annual swimming carnival which is supported by a small percentage of students. Swimming is a part of the curriculum with HPE offering swimming to only year 10 extension HPE classes and year 11 and 12 Physical Education classes. Theses classes are not compulsory to the student Population.
Figueroa’s Framework: Figueroa’s Framework is a structure created by Peter Figueroa containing 5 separate levels that display factors within society that influences a persons engagement and participation in sports and physical activity. Peter created this framework to make access to sport fairer and easier for everyone. This report will particularly focus particularly on 2 of the levels of the framework, The individual and interpersonal levels.. The interpersonal level is the way you are influenced by surrounding people for example your class mates, friends, coaches, role models and most importantly family members. Individual Level: The individual level of Figueroa’s Framework is personal barriers the effect your sporting abilities such as genetic advantages or disadvantages, self esteem levels, your attitudes towards things swell as your beliefs just to name a few. Interpersonal factors have played a part in my participation of many sports including swimming. One of the factors that have highly effected my swimming ability is my personal beliefs and attitudes towards swimming as i dont particularly see swimming as a competitive sport, but as a recreational activity therefore my skills aren 't developed enough to swim competitively compared to someone who believes swimming is a competitive sport. This also causes me to not enjoy swimming when put into a competitive environment as i cant perform as well. An interpersonal situation that could effect some one is their body type as they may not have the same build as many swimmers therefore putting them at an disadvantage. Making their participation and swimming results slowly decrease as they cant perform to the standards of others, causing self esteem to also be effected. Which is also another factor that effects their personal swimming enjoyment. Interpersonal Level: The interpersonal level is the way you are influenced by surrounding people for example your class mates, friends, coaches, role models and most importantly family members. The interpersonal level of Figueroa’s Framework has impacted my swimming participation greatly due to the fact that many of my friends dont swim as a sport but only recreationally so because of that I haven 't developed that skills I would need to be at a competitive level. My family have influenced me to participate in many sports throughout the years including swimming but swimming wasn 't the main sport I was influenced to do therefore causing this to effect my swimming ability and participation. Also the people I look up to as role models haven 't influenced me to participate in swimming as they not
List of contents:
- Background
- Figueroa’s Famework - Individual Level - Interpersonal - Access and equality - recommendations - bibliography Background: Forest Lake State High School (FLSHS) is situated in Brisbane’s south west bordering on the municipality of ipswich. …show more content…
Forest Lake State High School provides educational programs for over 1400 students in years 7-12 in a coeducational environment. The school comprises of a junior secondary school (years 7,8 and 9) and a senior school (years 10,11 and 12). The school has identifiable cultural groups of Polynesians, africans and vietnamese along with European Australians. Many students come from a low to middle socio-economic background. Sport at FLSHS consists predominantly around the football codes of rugby laugher, soccer and touch football. These along with basket ball and volleyball make up the sporting backbone of the school. Swimming does not feature strongly as a sport at FLSHS but there is an annual swimming carnival which is supported by a small percentage of students. Swimming is a part of the curriculum with HPE offering swimming to only year 10 extension HPE classes and year 11 and 12 Physical Education classes. Theses classes are not compulsory to the student Population.
Figueroa’s Framework: Figueroa’s Framework is a structure created by Peter Figueroa containing 5 separate levels that display factors within society that influences a persons engagement and participation in sports and physical activity. Peter created this framework to make access to sport fairer and easier for everyone. This report will particularly focus particularly on 2 of the levels of the framework, The individual and interpersonal levels.. The interpersonal level is the way you are influenced by surrounding people for example your class mates, friends, coaches, role models and most importantly family members. Individual Level: The individual level of Figueroa’s Framework is personal barriers the effect your sporting abilities such as genetic advantages or disadvantages, self esteem levels, your attitudes towards things swell as your beliefs just to name a few. Interpersonal factors have played a part in my participation of many sports including swimming. One of the factors that have highly effected my swimming ability is my personal beliefs and attitudes towards swimming as i dont particularly see swimming as a competitive sport, but as a recreational activity therefore my skills aren 't developed enough to swim competitively compared to someone who believes swimming is a competitive sport. This also causes me to not enjoy swimming when put into a competitive environment as i cant perform as well. An interpersonal situation that could effect some one is their body type as they may not have the same build as many swimmers therefore putting them at an disadvantage. Making their participation and swimming results slowly decrease as they cant perform to the standards of others, causing self esteem to also be effected. Which is also another factor that effects their personal swimming enjoyment. Interpersonal Level: The interpersonal level is the way you are influenced by surrounding people for example your class mates, friends, coaches, role models and most importantly family members. The interpersonal level of Figueroa’s Framework has impacted my swimming participation greatly due to the fact that many of my friends dont swim as a sport but only recreationally so because of that I haven 't developed that skills I would need to be at a competitive level. My family have influenced me to participate in many sports throughout the years including swimming but swimming wasn 't the main sport I was influenced to do therefore causing this to effect my swimming ability and participation. Also the people I look up to as role models haven 't influenced me to participate in swimming as they not