Det insamlade materialet ger ett entydigt resultat. En sällan skådad samstämmighet i omdömena råder, vilka också styrkts vid observationer under projektets gång. Samstämmigheten gäller även mellan projektets olika aktörer, ledare, deltagare och förenings-/företagsrepresentanter, var och en utifrån sitt perspektiv. Projektet Senior Sport School har haft ett dubbelt syfte, nämligen att: Tillsammans med Region Skåne, idrottsföreningar och Hushållningssällskapet vill Hässleholms kommun, Simrishamns kommun och Skåneidrotten genom Senior Sport School informera och inspirera äldre om möjligheterna till en aktiv roll inom idrotten såväl som (1) aktiv som (2) ledare. Projektet kan beskrivas i termer av succé – deltagarna har verkligen uppskattat kursen. Det talas genomgående om gemenskap, nya vänner, roligt att pröva på, komma igång, vara aktiv, etc. Denna sida kan sägas motsvara att vara aktiv i meningen aktivitet för deltagarens eget välbefinnande. Om projektets främsta mål däremot hade varit att rekrytera ledare till idrotten blir bilden en helt annan. Detta mål förblev på sin höjd halvt uttalad kursen igenom och resultatet kan i skrivande stund inte annat än beskrivas som ytterst magert. Tilläggas bör att om projektet anlagt ett uttalat fokus på att rekrytera ledare hade sannolikt gruppen intresserade minskat avsevärt. Poängteras bör att deltagarna i stor utsträckning uppfattar sig som ”redan frälsta” när det gäller att leva ett aktivt liv, dvs. projektet har inte nått nya grupper av seniora medborgare vilka är ovana vid aktivitet och idrott. De föreningar som besvarat enkäten säger att kontakten med projektledarna fungerat bra, men att de, med något undantag, inte såg att projektet skulle innebär en medlemsökning för den egna föreningen.

Background: This action-research project was initiated by a Regional Football association in Sweden. The region encompasses, 380 clubs, 2.500 youth teams and approximately 25.000 players between the age of 6 and 12 years. 150 football-coaching courses are completed yearly and a total 2.710 coaches have completed these courses, since 2010. A board decision was made (10/1/2016): To make a shift down-sizing the importance of winning that exists at the youth-level to focusing on the individual soccer-development of all participants. This decision was made because the drop-out rate has increased in the age-group around the age of 10, and reports of both physical and verbal abuse has increased during the later years. The Association contacted Malmö University with an initial request to enforce the board decision: What research is available on positive youth development in sports and children´s development over time? Initial actions: The process started with 10 two hour meetings, discussing definitions and perspectives to gain a common ground of understand both the problem at hand and the interpretations of possible mechanisms creating the problem. The collective view on what needed to be done after these initial meetings, was a change in perspective away from a focus on sports to a see the world from a child´s perspective. Thus, a major culture change is needed on all levels in order to alleviate the problem at hand. Consequences of actions: The greatest leverage for a cultural change is the coach education. Coaches are the “keeper” of values and belief systems on the grass-root level. The initial collective analysis revealed a gap between the research and the material distributed by the National Football Federation, based on the UEFA standards. The gap was between “what to do in organized football” and “how to do it, from a child´s perspective”. In the material, the sport transpose it´s importance and the child gets lost in translation. Further actions: The next step is in progress and it entails participation in coach education courses, analyzing course evaluations and further discussions to the identified the incongruences between the child´s perspective and the focus on football. Initial analysis has identified three problematic factors: The lack of participation of youth soccer players, the focus on ball-movement in all videos and the constant use of a grown-up terminology in analyzing the game of football. To alleviate this problem the use of authentic learning is suggested, by the research team.

Transforming Problematic Masculinity: A Case Study of Boys’ Education in the Sports Locker RoomThe purpose of the study was through a case study to analyze the staging and experiences of an educational intervention carried out with teamsports active boys in Sweden, which aimed to change a problematic masculinity in Swedish society. The case study is ethnographic in naturewhere an authentic educational process is followed and studied throughobservations, interviews and documents. The empirical material consistsof observations of 14 intervention sessions with 100 boys (10–14 years ofage), interviews with in total 17 participants; ten boys, three coaches, twoeducators and two operations managers. This article problematizes howintentions to change problematic masculinity is expressed through interventions with boys within the framework of team sports in Sweden. Newknowledge is created about how different forms of masculinities are presented, negotiated, and challenged in education of boys in a sports lockerroom context. The results show that with different views on the problemsamong those involved, the intervention, as a solution to problematic masculinity, risks becoming counterproductive, which is reinforced if the content is not relevant to and adapted for the young target group. We arguefor a more nuanced views on problematic masculinity, especially in relation to interventions-based education of young boys in sport as a solutionwhich is in focus in this study. 

This article discusses integration as a process rather than as a result or as a system of distribution, and takes its cue from Lave & Wenger’s concepts of “situated learning” and “legitimate peripheral participation”. By using integration as a process related concept the article analyzes both the intentions of an integration project as well as its consequences. The intention of the project was to simplify the integration of new members of the Swedish society by funnelling them into existing associations and clubs of their own choice in order to open up the considerable amount of social net works connections to these associations and clubs through their members. By becoming members of Swedish associations and clubs newcomers would also become aware of the importance of representation in Swedish society. The authors too see this result as an important step in the process of integration from a legitimate peripheral position towards the ever changing centre, e.g. integration as a result of various situated learning.

Syftet med artikeln är att ur ett gatekeeping-perspektiv belysa hur den manliga hegemonin kommer till uttryck och vilka eventuella konsekvenser den har inom skapandet kvinnliga elitidrottare. Genom gatekeeping-processen, med dess grundelement förväntningen och bekräftelsen, påverkar ledare och föräldrar de unga elitsatsande idrottarnas vardag, utveckling och syn på en eventuell framtid som elitidrottare. Det empiriska materialet är insamlat genom intervjuer och observationer i två olika omgångar, dels under perioden 2002–2004 och dels under åren 2011–2013. Materialet presenteras i form av tre case: fotboll, tennis och klassisk balett. Slutsatsen av undersökningen är att gatekeeping-processen sker i ett tomrum vad gäller fotbollen, till skillnad från tennis och, i än högre grad, klassisk balett. I motsats till de senare tycks det inte finnas några förväntningar alls på flickorna inom fotbollen. Fotbollsspelarnas strävan efter att bli bekräftade möts varken av ledare eller föräldrar. Bara de tjejer som sätter upp sina egna mål och därmed gör motstånd genom att ta till sig idrottens, den manliga hegemonins, normer och värderingar kan känna sig hemma inom fotbollen.