FOCUS GROUP AS A PR METHOD, THE POTENTIAL, THE LIMITATIONS AND THE CHALLENGES
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Introduction
This paper investigates the utilisation of Participatory Research (PR) in sports education using focus groups. A focus group is a manifestation of the qualitative study in which a set of individuals are questioned about their judgements, beliefs and opinions, towards an item, benefit, or idea. Queries are asked in an intelligent group setting where members are allowed to talk with others in the group.
PR is a methodology used with groups that emphasises support and activity. It looks to comprehend the world by attempting to transform it, collectively and after reflection. PR is a source of significant contention. It varies from other qualitative strategies because in a coordinated effort the researcher encourages the members. Commonly, the researcher trains members to be co-researchers themselves and includes them in the research process. The participatory procedure itself raises the awareness of members so they may move to productive activity. Sports education gives a wide assortment of chances to help youth create the abilities for professions (Farnsworth, 2010). For example, physical education focus groups are centred on two central suppositions. The primary one is that people can give a rich source of data around a theme. The second is that the aggregate and individual reactions supported by the focus group setting will produce material
Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work
This is a form of qualitative data analysis, where it allows the researcher to understand a ‘diversity of social and public policy issues’ (Orosz et al., 1997). Using this method, will allow for an in depth and detailed analysis, and through the interview it can record the attitudes and feelings represented by the interviewee. This can happen when the participant is trying to answer one of my research questions, for example ‘as coaches or as a scout, articulate how you conceptualise male ‘talent’ and identifying football players with the potential to become a success at the latter age of 18 and above, can the athlete still make an impact?’. This can then help to expand the questions by simulating the coaches own individual experiences, and as a researcher using qualitative methods of research, it can benefit by opening up doors to why the coaches perception and experiences, can determine whether they can identify ‘talent’ which is up to their own
Sport development is the promotion of sports activities for the community. Successful sports development depends largely on effective partnership and networking with a wide range of community groups, service providers, facility operators, National Governing bodies, local authorities and voluntary groups.Fundamentally sport development is about participation and promoting the opportunities and benefits of participation. Participation in sport and physical activity spans a wide range of contexts.Those engaging in sport development must be in the business of devising better and more effective ways of promoting interest and participation or performance in sport. Sport development is a questionable and challenged term, particularly as the accurate importance and utilization of 'sport improvement ' can 't be assumed, as various arrangement and expert settings have incrementally procured remarkable quality and implications that can 't be disregarded. Sports development services encourage and deliver an extensive range of high quality programmes and initatives designed to succeed in a long term and sustainable increase in sport and physical activity. This is achieved through using the local delivery system for sport and physical activity working with a network of strong and effective key partners at a national, regional and local level. The success is underpinned throught a range of development approaches and principles. Similarly,
The RecSports department plans to have focus groups to continue discussing these issues in the
Flexible and inexpensive, focus groups consist of six to ten participants (Hartman, 2004, p. 408). Additionally, a moderator guides the discussion among its panel members that allows researchers to observe real-time verbal responses and nonverbal cues (Hartman, 2004, p. 402; Cooper & Schindler, 2014, p. 160). Focus groups moderators also have the ability to introduce new ideas to gain a greater understanding of concerns from respondents (Hartman, 2004, p. 402). However, a concern with focus group is the lack of anonymity due to the face-to-face participation.
This article represents a focus group type of qualitative research. According to Qualitative Research Consultants Association (2015), in focus group qualitative research, a group of individuals who share a need, life circumstance, or habit relevant to the research issue(s) at hand are led in a discussion by a modulator. The focus group discussions often include between two to ten respondents, and are often held face to face. They can also be conducted remotely through videoconferencing, teleconferencing, or
Sharing circle and focus group discussions are similar in that they are commonly used in qualitative research to explore and construct knowledge about a phenomenon with research participants in small groups (Redman-MacLaren, Mills, and Tommbe 2014). Also, both methods can be used to explore experiences surrounding a particular topic within a group of various cultures (Tobias and Richmond 2016). The choice between focus group and sharing circles largely depends on the epistemological position of the researcher, the context, and the study population (Redman-MacLaren, Mills, and Tommbe 2014).
This dissertation is focused on a case study which presents my coaching role as a Sports Practitioner, personal perceptions, experiences and performance when delivering sporting sessions to young people to adapt to different situations e.g... ages, abilities and needs etc… around Manchester throughout the summer of 2015 (8th July to 26th August).
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Now that you know who we are, I think it’s about time we let you know what it is that we do. Our Goal is to help serve the community, to stand up for their rights and beliefs, to inform our community on what is corrupt in their neighborhoods. Building solidarity that will make use of our diversity and perseverance. empowering people in and around the community. We are reaching our goal by taking 6 weeks out of the summer to implement our Participatory Action Research (PAR). Our research seeks to understand the world (in this case community) by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. We research problems in our communities or neighborhoods that needs to be changed to make a drastic change, for the better. Last year, LOC
Data collection. Data was collected using five focus groups and completing a short demographic form. “The technique of using group interviews is recommended as the ‘sole basis’ for data collection when undertaking a phenomenological study” (Meadus & Twomey, 2011). By using the group setting, the researchers were able to make the male students feel comfortable and confident. It gave opportunity for them to share their thoughts without any fear (Meadus & Twomey, 2011). This technique is appropriate because it is best suited to acquire human life experiences (Davies & Logan, 2012). The roles of the researchers were defined as being mediator, observer and recorder. The roles did switch between groups but had consistent roles at all times (Meadus & Twomey, 2011). Data saturation is not described in this article.
This graph is evidence of data collected in another study of the correlation of the relationship between canines and humans. It essentially shows the personality of a couple breeds of dog and this data is later used to study how the relationship with certain individuals with certain personalities is satisfactory or incompatible.
There are several reasons in which sports managers should look towards research for their organization. How do we market better? How do we put more fans in the stands and make the games much more enjoyable? How do we promote our team and support the community? What factors make successful organizations run well? What do we need to do to increase our profit margins? In the prep level, does our organization do enough to better prepare our athletes not only for the field of play, but also for their future endeavors as athletes? I am going to look at four different methods of research design and discuss how they compare and contrast to one another, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each. I will look first at the case study, then observational research, followed closely by interviews and finally I will discuss the most common of research designs, the survey.
Focus groups are a prominent method of enquiry, regularly used within the field of social science and in particular, qualitative research. The focus group practice involves a number of participants having an open discussion on a specific topic, set by a researcher. The researcher acts as a moderator to aid discussion by using probes to collect desirable data. This process is recorded and transcripts are used to interpret and analyse given information.
Qualitative research is a technique of promoting research that stresses the quality according to the user’s point of view and approaches. In depth interviews and focus groups are best examples of qualitative research. [Laura Lake, 2009]