EDKP 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Wayne Gretzky, Extreme Ways
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Ex: sport so privatized because people in for the everything costs when sport before was to. 1- trend 1 : introduction of participation fees for sport. Programs very expensive for sport: decrease in publicly. Funded sport programs: user fees for interschool. *decline in #number of publicly funded programs w/ free open participation policies. Economic & ethnic inequality in larger society: public spaces = being used for commercial organized. Sport programs when stop offering public programs. Ex: low income & single parents lack money to pay for children"s sports. More likely to emphasize the performance ethic. *children encouraged to evaluate in terms of developing technical skills & progressing to. Ex: more private elite training facilities dedicated to producing highly skilled & specialized athletes: performance= indicator of quality of a sport program. *so fun defined as becoming better athlete & more competitive & promoted to higher skilled levels: private programs= emphasize performance ethic > more than public/non-profit programs.