Figueroa's Framework

Figueroa's Framework

Interpersonal Level

• Who Influences our participation and access?

Family

The stronger the relationship, the greater the influence.

For children and teens, parents are the biggest influence on their opportunities to access sport.

How . . . Parents are responsible for decisions about type and scope of physical activities. They also provide financial and emotional support.

LEVELS OF PARENTAL INFLUENCES:

None….Limited….Passive….Active (supportive)….Active (role model)….Over Active

In a paragraph: describe the influential role your parents have had in your participation in sport.

Discuss how they provided you with opportunities to participate in physical activity. If one, or both, of your parents are/were actively involved in sport, discuss how this role-modelling encouraged (or discouraged) you. If your parents were not actively engaged in influencing your participation, discuss how this impacted on you and what you have done to overcome this barrier.

Siblings

The socialisation process towards physical activity and the opportunity to engage in physical activity seems to be much stronger when children have siblings.

WHY?

This is probably due to the opportunities ‘having someone to play with’ provides. Having at least one other person (of similar age) to actively play with will ensure that from a young age basic movement skills are being developed. As chasing, climbing, dodging and wrestling skills, as well as many others, are adequately developed, this may see young people develop a more positive attitude towards their own physical abilities.

How have parents and siblings been an influencing factor in the previous video?

What difference would the experiences of a first-born child be to being the forth-born child?

First-born:

Family has no specific alignment to the sport and may have funds to allow experimentation and to buy new equipment etc. They might also go out of their way to see the child's first sporting moments, to support their child

Forth-born:

The older siblings have chosen their sports so the younger one must follow to make it easier for their parents to drop off/pick up from practice, cheaper registration fees for families and becuase the family socialises together the family chosen sport is all the younger sibling knows.

Coaches and Teachers

How do teachers and coaches influence you?

But what happens when they're not?

Is there anything wrong with this?

Let's brainstorm...

Yell or put your efforts down

Friends and Peers

As children get older, peer groups and friends begin to have a greater influence over attitudes and behaviour than the family. As peers become more important to an individual for information and feedback, children and adolescents begin to value their own perceptions of their physical competence.

It is through this comparison, while interacting within a social context,that children assess their own strengths and limitations compared to those of their peers and develop their sporting self-concept. Not only does the individual judge their own competence by their peers’ responses, but their peers themselves will judge them.

Peers become the measure of social acceptance, and social acceptance is greatly influenced by the child’s ability to participate successfully in the activities that are valued by her peers.

Media

How does the media affect

our self concept and self esteem?

What are the stereotypes of male and female sport?

Does the sport or physical activity which you perform conform to societal perceptions of what's acceptable for a male and female?

What happens when we don't

'fit' societal stereotypes?

Source:

Kiss. M, Kleoudis, T, Rasi, M, Stewart, R. (2010). Step Forward; Senior Physical Education for Queensland. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Teachers and coaches can be excellent role models for appropriate behaviours

and values/attitudes.

Promote positive self concept/esteem

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Encourage you to reach your goals

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