El club juvenil : posibilidad y respuesta educativa al tiempo libre.

Conocer si el pertenecer o no a un Club juvenil es significativo en la vivencia de los valores. Estudio acerca de la utilización del tiempo libre y como ésta puede influir o no en la conducta del sujeto. El presente estudio tiene dos partes, la primera relativa a los aspectos teóricos el tiempo libre y la segunda, de carácter experimental. Dentro de la primera parte, el capítulo 1 pretende examinar las cuestiones relativas a conceptos, historia características, objetivos, etc. y ver la posible conexión entre tiempo libre y educación. El siguiente capitulo establece las relaciones entre tiempo libre y sociedad y particularmente entre tiempo libre y asociacionismo juvenil. El tercer capítulo ofrece una posibilidad y una respuesta al tiempo libre de los jóvenes: el club juvenil. Sus características, organización, problemas y pasos necesarios para ponerlo en marcha los ser veran en este apartado. El aparatado siguiente finaliza la parte teórica y nos ofrece un modelo de Club Juvenil: el centro juvenil Salesiano. en la parte experimental pretende analizar, mediante el método de la comparación, si el pertenecer o no a un club juvenil es significativo en la vivencia de valores tales como estímulo, conformidad, reconocimiento, independencia, benevolencia y liderazgo. 1) El tiempo libre es un realidad cada vez más importante en nuestra sociedad. Podemos convertirlo en un tiempo positivo, de crecimiento y realización personal, o en un tiempo de aburrimiento y consumo.2) Para los jóvenes el tiempo libre puede tener un doble significado; puede ser un tiempo de posibilidades educativas y humanizadoras o bien algo dirigido y manipulado desde los adultos pro intereses que responden a la simple producción y consumo.3) El Club Juvenil, dentro de la realidad del tiempo libre, puede ser un elemento precioso de la acción educativa y un lugar inmejorable para experimentar una vida juvenil positiva y formadora de la propia persona.4) El pertenecer o no a un Club Juvenil es un factor significativo en la vivencia de valores tales como conformidad, independencia, benevolencia y liderazgo. Los valores estímulo y reconocimiento no sufren influencias estimables del hecho de pertenecer o no a un club.5) Es probable que estos valores de estímulo y reconocimiento responden a una necesidad básica de todo ser humano, siendo dos valores innatos de todo hombre es lógico que el hecho de pertenecer o no a un club no influya en su estimación.

El Club Escolar.

Se presenta el llamado Club Escolar como catalizador de las actividades extraescolares en los centros de EGB. Se mencionan los fundamentos, la finalidad y la necesidad del Club Escolar al ser un órgano pedagógico, un agrupamiento docente y, en última instancia, una institución educativa. Se definen los órganos que lo forman y su función en los diferentes factores y fases que lo constituyen: el órgano del tutor, el órgano coordinador y el órgano representativo del Club Escolar. Se señalan las tres áreas de aprendizaje que componen la educación integral que ha de tenerse en cuenta en un Club Escolar, como la natural, social y cultural, junto a sus instrumentos y procedimientos correspondientes.

Discapacitados-as, iguales pero diferentes

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Las asociaciones juveniles educan.

Descubrir por qué el joven se agrupa en cluds, asociaciones juveniles; qué intenta o qué supone estar incluido en estos centros. En una primera parte da una visión general de las asociaciones y movimientos juveniles. Hace, en una segunda parte, un estudio analítico de los resultados obtenidos. Encuesta aplicada. Destaca la procupación que tienen los jóvenes por integrarse en estos movimientos para alcanzar su formación. Así mismo, resaltan las conquistas logradas en el campo intelectual y cultural, concretamente en el aspecto religioso y social.

Jóvenes comprometidos.

El IES 'San Isidro' de Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, crea un Club juvenil con el fin de impulsar iniciativas y actividades relacionadas con el desarrollo y la cooperación internacional, sus objetivos giran en torno a difundir entre los jóvenes acciones que favorezcan la justicia social, la igualdad entre hombre y mujeres y el respeto al entorno.

Relatório de estágio de atividade física e desporto realizado no Club Sport Marítimo

O presente relatório, visa relatar todo o trabalho desenvolvido ao longo do estágio curricular, realizado no Club Sport Marítimo, tendo como objetivo a conclusão do Mestrado em Atividade Física e Desporto, ministrado na Universidade da Madeira. A principal atividade abordada ao longo do estágio curricular foi o projeto Marítimo LAB, cujo principal objetivo é a avaliação e a potencialização das capacidades individuais e coletivas dos jovens atletas do futebol de formação do Clube. A avaliação dos atletas baseouse na aplicação das baterias de teste e os momentos de potencialização na aplicação de unidades de treino com o intuito de estimular e aperfeiçoar as capacidades individuais. A amostra foi constituída por 241 atletas, todos do género masculino, com idades compreendidas entre os 10 e os 18 anos de idade. Para uma análise das variáveis da composição corporal e da performance motora, efetuou-se uma comparação dos valores médios dos três momentos de avaliação, com a finalidade de verificar o grau de evolução dos atletas ao longo de uma época competitiva. Para além do projeto Marítimo LAB, o estagiário também foi integrado numa equipa técnica do escalão de iniciados (Sub-15), e esteve presente em todas atividades organizadas e dinamizadas pelo departamento de futebol amador do Clube.

Relatório de estágio de atividade física e desporto realizado no Club Sport Marítimo

O presente relatório, visa relatar todo o trabalho desenvolvido ao longo do estágio curricular, realizado no Club Sport Marítimo, tendo como objetivo a conclusão do Mestrado em Atividade Física e Desporto, ministrado na Universidade da Madeira. A principal atividade abordada ao longo do estágio curricular foi o projeto Marítimo LAB, cujo principal objetivo é a avaliação e a potencialização das capacidades individuais e coletivas dos jovens atletas do futebol de formação do Clube. A avaliação dos atletas baseouse na aplicação das baterias de teste e os momentos de potencialização na aplicação de unidades de treino com o intuito de estimular e aperfeiçoar as capacidades individuais. A amostra foi constituída por 241 atletas, todos do género masculino, com idades compreendidas entre os 10 e os 18 anos de idade. Para uma análise das variáveis da composição corporal e da performance motora, efetuou-se uma comparação dos valores médios dos três momentos de avaliação, com a finalidade de verificar o grau de evolução dos atletas ao longo de uma época competitiva. Para além do projeto Marítimo LAB, o estagiário também foi integrado numa equipa técnica do escalão de iniciados (Sub-15), e esteve presente em todas atividades organizadas e dinamizadas pelo departamento de futebol amador do Clube.

Opinions, attitudes and driving experiences of car and racing "enthusiasts" : results of the Ontario Car and Racing Club Survey

In recent years, car club and racing websites and forums have become an increasingly popular way for car enthusiasts to access racing and car club news, chat-rooms and message boards. However, no North American research has been found that has examined opinions and driving experiences of car and racing enthusiasts. The purpose of this study was to examine car club members’ opinions about and experiences with various aspects of driving, road safety and traffic legislation, with a particular focus on street racing. A web-based questionnaire (Survey Monkey) was developed using the expert panel method and was primarily based on validated instruments or questions that were developed from other surveys. The questionnaire included: 1) driver concerns regarding traffic safety issues and legislation; 2) attitudes regarding various driving activities; 3) leisure-time activities, including club activities; 4) driving experiences, including offences and collisions; and 5) socio-demographic questions. The survey was pre- tested and piloted. Electronic information letters were sent out to an identified list of car clubs and forums situated in southern Ontario. Car club participants were invited to fill out the questionnaire. This survey found that members of car clubs share similar concerns regarding various road safety issues with samples of Canadian drivers, although a smaller percentage of car club members are concerned about speeding-related driving. Car club members had varied opinions regarding Ontario’s Street Racers, Stunt and Aggressive Drivers Legislation. The respondents agreed the most with the new offences regarding not sitting in the driver’s seat, having a person in the trunk, or driving as close as possible to another vehicle, pedestrian or object on or near the highway without a reason. The majority disagreed with police powers of impoundment and on-the-spot licence suspensions. About three quarters of respondents reported no collisions or police stops for traffic offences in the past five years. Of those who had been stopped, the most common offence was reported as speeding. This study is the first in Canada to examine car club members’ opinions about and experiences with various aspects of driving, road safety and traffic legislation. Given the ubiquity of car clubs and fora in Canada, insights on members’ opinions and practices provide important information to road safety researchers.

The Corio Oval tribe: Geelong Football Club in colonial times

Geelong, Victoria’s second city, has an AFL football club whose culture and identity is closely tied to the city itself. An analysis of its playing group for the colonial period demonstrates that this local tribalism began early. As football became professionalised towards the end of the nineteenth century, country Victoria lost power in relative terms to metropolitan Melbourne: for example, Ballarat’s three main clubs lost their senior status. But Geelong, with its one remaining senior club, prospered and was admitted to the VFL ranks in 1897. The Geelong players were the sons and nephews of the Western District squattocracy and so had access to networks of power and influence. Many attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School and the worthy Geelong College (in surprisingly equal numbers). They pursued careers both on the land and in professional roles, and maintained the social connections they had built through the club and other local institutions. Despite their elite standing, however, they continued to be regarded by the supporter base as an embodiment of the city and a defence against the city’s Melbourne critics that Geelong was a mere ‘sleepy hollow’.

Reading images : the book club in the art gallery

This paper seeks to document and understand one instance of community-university engagement: that of an on-going book club organised in conjunction with public art exhibitions. The curator of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Art Museum invited the authors, three postgraduate research students in the faculty of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT, to facilitate an informal book club. The purpose of the book club was to generate discussion, through engagement with fiction, around the themes and ideas explored in the Art Museum’s exhibitions. For example, during the William Robinson exhibition, which presented evocative images of the environment around Brisbane, Queensland, the book club explored texts that symbolically represented aspects of the Australian landscape in a variety of modes and guises. This paper emerges as a result of the authors’ observations during, and reflections on, their experiences facilitating the book club. It responds to the research question, how can we create a best practice model to engage readers through open-ended, reciprocal discussion of fiction, while at the same time encouraging interactions in the gallery space? To provide an overview of reading practices in book clubs, we rely on Jenny Hartley’s seminal text on the subject, The Reading Groups Book (2002). Although the book club was open to all members of the community, the participants were generally women. Elizabeth Long, in Book Clubs: Woman and the Uses of Reading in the Everyday (2003), offers a comprehensive account of women’s interactions as they engage in a reading community. Long (2003, 2) observes that an image of the solitary reader governs our understanding of reading. Long challenges this notion, arguing that reading is profoundly social (ibid), and, as women read and talk in book clubs, ‘they are supporting each other in a collective working-out of their relationship to a particular historical movement and the particular social conditions that characterise it’ (Long 2003, 22). Despite the book club’s capacity to act as a forum for analytical discussion, DeNel Rehberg Sedo (2010, 2) argues that there are barriers to interaction in such a space, including that members require a level of cultural capital and literacy before they feel comfortable to participate. How then can we seek to make book clubs more inclusive, and encourage readers to discuss and question outside of their comfort zone? How can we support interactions with texts and images? In this paper, we draw on pragmatic and self-reflective practice methods to document and evaluate the development of the book club model designed to facilitate engagement. We discuss how we selected texts, negotiating the dual needs of relevance to the exhibition and engagement with, and appeal to, the community. We reflect on developing questions and material prior to the book club to encourage interaction, and describe how we developed a flexible approach to question-asking and facilitating discussion. We conclude by reflecting on the outcomes of and improvements to the model.

The Corio Oval Tribe : a prosopographical perspective of the Geelong Football Club in the nineteenth century

This article analyses the occupational and class status of Geelong footballers in the nineteenth century via the methodology of prosopography. Prosopography is an empirical group biography approach to historical research. The article argues that during the period 1859-78 Geelong's playing group was largely derived from the squattocracy and urban middle class. In the later period 1878-96 the Geelong club recruited more widely from the working class, as in keeping with the increased participation of this class in football from the late 1870s. It can be argued that this more diverse group helped establish Geelong as a footballing power.

Watermemories : a swimming club for people with dementia

The purpose of this article is to describe the conceptual model and implementation strategies of an evidence-based, aquatic exercise program specifically targeting individuals with dementia—The Watermemories Swimming Club (WSC). Physical exercise not only improves the functional capacity of people with dementia but also has significant effects on other aspects of quality of life such as sleep, appetite, behavioral and psychological symptoms, depression, and falls. Additionally, exercise can improve a person’s overall sense of well-being and positively enhance their sociability. The WSC was designed to increase physical exercise while being easy to implement, safe, and pleasurable. Many challenges were faced along the way, and we discuss how these were overcome. Implications for nurses are also provided.

Exploring the effect of aquatic exercise on behaviour and psychological wellbeing in people with moderate to severe dementia : a pilot study of the Watermemories Swimming Club

Aim To explore the effects of a dementia-specific, aquatic exercise intervention on behavioural and psychological symptoms in people with dementia (BPSD). Method Residents from two aged care facilities in Queensland, Australia, received a 12-week intervention consisting of aquatic exercises for strength, agility, flexibility, balance and relaxation. The Psychological Well-Being in Cognitively Impaired Persons Scale (PW-BCIP) and the Revised Memory and Behaviour Problems Checklist (RMBPC) were completed by registered nurses at baseline, week 6, week 9 and post intervention. Results Ten women and one man (median age = 88.4 years, interquartile range = 12.3) participated. Statistically significant declines in the RMBPC and PW-BCIP were observed over the study period. Conclusion Preliminary evidence suggests that a dementia-specific, aquatic exercise intervention reduces BPSD and improves psychological well-being in people with moderate to severe dementia. With further testing, this innovative intervention may prove effective in addressing some of the most challenging aspects of dementia care.

The Watermemories Swimming Club

This pilot project aimed to try something different - rekindle positive memories of swimming in people with dementia who enjoyed swimming throughout their lives, and involve them in active swimming again using a swimming club intervention. Club members were recruited from two residential aged care facilities in Queensland, Australia (n=25 recruited, n=18 commenced, n=11 (median age=88.4, IQR=12.3; 1 male) completed the intervention). The 12 week program consisted of two, 45 minute sessions per week held at a municipal pool, using a trained instructor and assistants. Measures, taken at baseline, Week 6, Week 9 and post intervention included psychosocial and physical assessments such as the Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist, Psychological Well-Being in Cognitively Impaired Persons, Seniors Physical Performance Battery and bioelectric impedance analysis. Stakeholder focus groups determined the barriers and facilitators for the club. Three outcomes have been achieved: 1) the development of a dementia specific, evidence-based, aquatic exercise program. This valuable resource will ensure that the benefits will be maximized with tailored exercises for strength, agility, flexibility, balance, relaxation and stress reduction, 2) improved quality of life for members, with statistically significant improvements in psychological wellbeing (χ2 =8.66, p<0.05), BPSD expression (χ2=16.91, p=0.001) and staff distress (χ2=16.86, p=0.001) and 3) an informative website with instructional video clips and a manual to assist others in implementing and maintaining a Watermemories Swimming Club. This pilot project has provided strong evidence that aquatic exercise can produce positive physical, psychosocial and behavioral outcomes for people with dementia.

TEXTA Book Club in the QUT Art Museum

TEXTA runs as a type of book club that we have previously labelled as ‘bespoke’ (Ellison, Holliday and Van Luyn 2012). We visualise TEXTA as a meeting place between the community and the university, as a space for discussion and engagement with both visual art forms and written texts. In today’s presentation, we shall briefly establish the ‘bespoke’ bookclub. We then want to introduce the idea of TEXTA as an example of a book club that negotiates Edward Soja’s Thirdspace (1996) – a space that incorporates and extends concepts of First and Secondspace (or perceived and conceived spaces). In doing so, we showcase two recent sessions of TEXTA as case studies. We will then illustrate some ideas we have for expanding TEXTA beyond the boundaries of Brisbane city, and invite feedback on how to further extend the opportunities for community engagement that TEXTA can offer in regional areas.