Combining School and Sport in Finnish Lower Secondary School : The Interplay Among Engagement, Burnout and Experiences in Student Athletes’ Dual Career Adjustment

  • Kuokkanen, Joni
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Publication date
January 2022
Publisher
Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University
Language
English

Abstract

The current alarming trend in sports shows that many potential future elite athletes opt to dropout of sports before the age of 15 due to insuperable problems in satisfactorily balancing sport with other spheres of life. The absence of national standards has hindered the provision of optimal developmental grounds for talented young athletes to combine school and sport in a dual career (DC) in lower secondary education. Consequently, the Finnish Olympic Committee introduced a three-year Lower Secondary Sports Schools Pilot Project (LSSSPP) on a trial basis in 19 public lower secondary schools between the academic years of 2017 and 2020. Parallel to the three-year pilot project, a longitudinal mixed-methods research project, called Sport and ...

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