1st Edition
Families, Pre-School Sport, and Physical Activity Critical Perspectives
Lists of figures
List of tables
About the authors/editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Philippa Velija and Georgia Allen-Baker
Part One: Theoretical Concepts
Chapter One: Sociological Frameworks for Understanding Unequal Childhoods and Pre-School Spaces
Philippa Velija
Chapter Two: A figurational analysis of the growth of commercialised sports for under five-year-olds
Mark Mierzwinski and Philippa Velija
Chapter Three: Framing Play: Bernstein, Early Years Education and Pre-School Enrichment
Julie Stirrup
Chapter Four: Pre-School Children, Risky Play and Rock-Climbing Programmes
Nicole Gridley
Part Two: UK Empirical Studies
Chapter Five: Marketing Pre-School Sport and Physical Activity
Georgia Allen-Baker and Philippa Velija
Chapter Six: A Race to the Bottom: The recruitment of pre-academy children into Premier League football academies
Gerald Griggs, Richard Elliott, Noel Dempsey, and Neil Scott
Chapter Seven: Swimming from Birth
Georgia Allen-Baker
Chapter Eight: Forest School in the Early Years
Samantha Friedman and Alexia Barrable
Part Three: Global Context
Chapter Nine: Advancing an understanding about parenting and children’s early sport involvement: An Australian perspective
Sam Elliott and Emilea Mysko
Chapter Ten: Race, Families and Pre-School Sport and Physical Activity of Pacific families in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand
Katerina Tovia -Dufoo
Chapter Eleven: An Analysis of the Pre-school Sport and Physical Activity Market in Sweden
Jesper Karlson, Kain Redelius, Asa Backstrom and Magus Kilger
Chapter Twelve: Exploring pre-school sport and physical activity in China: A critical perspective on parents and under-fives
Giovannipaolo Ferrari
Chapter Thirteen: Organised Public Sports Participation Among Preschoolers Living in the U.S. Southeast: Strategies and Challenges
Kristine M. Fleming, Holly L. Garcia and Arenteanis A. Brown
Biography
Georgia Allen-Baker is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Her research draws on psychological and sociological theory to understand individual and collective experiences in sport and physical activity domains. Recently, she has focused on parental motivations, family experiences, and societal implications of early sport engagement.
Philippa Velija is Interim Dean of School of Education at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. She is co-author of Gender Equity in UK Sport Leadership and Governance and Figurational Research in Sport, Leisure, and Health. Philippa is interested in understanding the socio-cultural study of inequalities in sport and leisure.
