Starting with a clean slate: An analysis of member identification with a new sports team     

Daniel Lock  Simon Darcy  Tracy Taylor 《Sport Management Review》2009,12(1):15-25

Soccer in Australia underwent a series of changes following a Federal Government inquiry into its future. A report into the Structure, Governance and Management of Soccer in Australia (2003) recommended a process of structural change, aimed at repositioning and re-branding soccer as association football. The restructure yielded the replacement of the National Soccer League with the A-League, five new Australian teams and a concerted attempt to separate soccer from its ethnic ties in the antipodes. This paper examines member identification in relation to a specific A-League club’s members. Using the Sports Spectator Identity Scale (Wann & Branscombe, 1993) to measure sport fan identity in a new team context, a survey of club members of Sydney FC (n = 510), was undertaken. Survey findings indicated that members of Sydney FC reported relatively strong team identification in the first year of the new competition, with some nuanced differences based on age and income. The SSIS demonstrated a good level of fit in relation to a new sports team, although it is evident that rivalries and identification with a new team need time to develop fully.  相似文献   

The comparative advantage of international education: Different places, different lenses, different voices     

Simon McGrath 《International Journal of Educational Development》2012,32(1):1-2

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Altering the “Inner Life of the Culture”: Monstrous Memory and the Persistence of 9/11     

Roger I. Simon 《Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies》2013,35(3-4):352-374

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Education in small states: policies and priorities     

Simon McGrath 《比较教育学》2014,50(4):509-510

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Effect of verbal instructions and image size on visual search strategies in basketball free throw shooting     

Al-Abood SA  Bennett SJ  Hernandez FM  Ashford D  Davids K 《Journal of sports sciences》2002,20(3):271-278

We assessed the effects on basketball free throw performance of two types of verbal directions with an external attentional focus. Novices (n = 16) were pre-tested on free throw performance and assigned to two groups of similar ability (n = 8 in each). Both groups received verbal instructions with an external focus on either movement dynamics (movement form) or movement effects (e.g. ball trajectory relative to basket). The participants also observed a skilled model performing the task on either a small or large screen monitor, to ascertain the effects of visual presentation mode on task performance. After observation of six videotaped trials, all participants were given a post-test. Visual search patterns were monitored during observation and cross-referenced with performance on the pre- and post-test. Group effects were noted for verbal instructions and image size on visual search strategies and free throw performance. The 'movement effects' group saw a significant improvement in outcome scores between the pre-test and post-test. These results supported evidence that this group spent more viewing time on information outside the body than the 'movement dynamics' group. Image size affected both groups equally with more fixations of shorter duration when viewing the small screen. The results support the benefits of instructions when observing a model with an external focus on movement effects, not dynamics.  相似文献   

Visual search and biological motion perception in tennis   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ward P  Williams AM  Bennett SJ 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2002,73(1):107-112

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Coming in from the Cold? Further education and training in South Africa     

Simon McGrath 《Compare》2000,30(1):67-84

As South Africa enters the Mbeki Presidency so the fortunes of the country are thrown into sharp relief. One of the central elements determining South Africa's short- to medium-term future will be the success of educational transformation, particularly when it is directed to addressing issues of equity and economic development. This paper explores the 1998 reforms of the further education and training system in the context of broader questions of educational and economic transformation in South Africa.  相似文献   

A material perspective on 18th-century chemistry     

Jonathan Simon 《Metascience》2010,19(1):71-73

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Building Future Directions for Teacher Learning in Science Education     

Kathy Smith  Simon Lindsay 《Research in Science Education》2016,46(2):243-261

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Variations on “P.C.” in the movies     

John Simon 《Academic Questions》2000,13(1):66-72

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