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Emeline Mandeville
Aug 20, 2009, 3:11:24 AM8/20/09
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Hi, everyone
As a prospective grad student at SUNY Cortland Sport Management Department (and hopeful participant in Bridges to Nepal), I am excited to have such an opportunity to participate in the formation of a journal that could respond so fully to my academic and professional needs.
As a student with an A.A.S. in hospitality and B.A. in international business my experience in sports for development and peace is limited.
On the other hand, I do have a few ideas about the involvement of students. There seems to be too much of a divide between incoming students and the professional class (professors, consultants, etc). It would really help focus study, and encourage research abroad, if students saw that their work could reach a global audience. So we should definitely encourage students to get involved in MM. On the other hand, we don't want to jeopardize the integrity and reputation of the journal by including a lot of half-baked ideas. So what I propose is that, at least initially, we say that all student work will be considered and will receive feedback; that if the author(s) answer our criticism and follow our suggestions, we will "publish" the piece in the "Online Journal." In fact, ALL articles, not just student articles, should be posted in the Online MM as soon as they are completely edited. As time for publication approaches, there will be some kind of triage, perhaps based partly on reader response to the articles; and the best of Online MM gets published in the Hardcopy MM. It may even be possible to have just one section of each publication to feature a grad student's article.
Another thing we should do is keep an eye on SPRENET and other listservs and whenever we see discussion of a theme that would be relevant to MM, we could write and suggest that person (or one of their students) submit an article.
Finally, we might want to put out feelers on the listservs to get help designing a course specifically on Sport for Development and Peace. If we get good material, we could go ahead and develop the course. Maybe even put together a textbook.
I look forward to hearing what you all think about these ideas, as well as the other questions recently posted.
Emeline Mandeville
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As a prospective grad student at SUNY Cortland Sport Management Department (and hopeful participant in Bridges to Nepal), I am excited to have such an opportunity to participate in the formation of a journal that could respond so fully to my academic and professional needs.
As a student with an A.A.S. in hospitality and B.A. in international business my experience in sports for development and peace is limited.
On the other hand, I do have a few ideas about the involvement of students. There seems to be too much of a divide between incoming students and the professional class (professors, consultants, etc). It would really help focus study, and encourage research abroad, if students saw that their work could reach a global audience. So we should definitely encourage students to get involved in MM. On the other hand, we don't want to jeopardize the integrity and reputation of the journal by including a lot of half-baked ideas. So what I propose is that, at least initially, we say that all student work will be considered and will receive feedback; that if the author(s) answer our criticism and follow our suggestions, we will "publish" the piece in the "Online Journal." In fact, ALL articles, not just student articles, should be posted in the Online MM as soon as they are completely edited. As time for publication approaches, there will be some kind of triage, perhaps based partly on reader response to the articles; and the best of Online MM gets published in the Hardcopy MM. It may even be possible to have just one section of each publication to feature a grad student's article.
Another thing we should do is keep an eye on SPRENET and other listservs and whenever we see discussion of a theme that would be relevant to MM, we could write and suggest that person (or one of their students) submit an article.
Finally, we might want to put out feelers on the listservs to get help designing a course specifically on Sport for Development and Peace. If we get good material, we could go ahead and develop the course. Maybe even put together a textbook.
I look forward to hearing what you all think about these ideas, as well as the other questions recently posted.
Emeline Mandeville
Moving Mountains: Journal of Sport for Development and Peace now has a steering committee of about fifteen people. We'd like to encourage more of you to consider joining, and to that end I am proposing a discussion of practical and theoretical matters relating to the journal. Here is an initial volley of questions. Please feel free to answer just those that strike you as interesting.
1) Keeping in mind that we should avoid reinventing wheels that are already out there...How can this journal, and the associated Web site, help you? E.g.:
a) Would it make sense to have a directory of SDP-relevant academic programs? [Are there already such lists? Should the listing be free at first, and then for fee, if the journal prospers?]
b) How can we encourage students to get involved? Do we risk diminishing the quality of the journal if we give space to students?
c) What about econferences, with published results? What topics would students be interested in?
d) Is there some change in traditional academic structure that we should be advocating?
e) Should we have a column/department/webpage where researchers can ask for advice? A long-distance mentorship program?
2) Stephanie Diaz is involved in writing a curriculum for Soccer Kids (http://soccerkidsofamerica.org/). Could a program developed for disadvantaged Americans help in Nepal or other LDC's?
3) Can sports really promote peace in unstable places like Kashmir? In sites of ethnic cleansing, like Bhutan? Among disenfranchised, marginalized economic sectors such as mountain porters, whose children generally don't attend school?
4) What is to be made of the propensity of sporting events (eg soccer matches in Europe and South America) to degenerate into riots?
5) Do we have to find value in all sports? What about mountain biking? Are snow-mobile and all-terrain-vehicle use "sports"? If we characterize them as something else, do we risk seeing them morph into sports through the imposition of competitive rules? What about extreme sports? Is promoting peace through risk an acceptable strategy? Are there limits?
1) Keeping in mind that we should avoid reinventing wheels that are already out there...How can this journal, and the associated Web site, help you? E.g.:
a) Would it make sense to have a directory of SDP-relevant academic programs? [Are there already such lists? Should the listing be free at first, and then for fee, if the journal prospers?]
b) How can we encourage students to get involved? Do we risk diminishing the quality of the journal if we give space to students?
c) What about econferences, with published results? What topics would students be interested in?
d) Is there some change in traditional academic structure that we should be advocating?
e) Should we have a column/department/webpage where researchers can ask for advice? A long-distance mentorship program?
2) Stephanie Diaz is involved in writing a curriculum for Soccer Kids (http://soccerkidsofamerica.org/). Could a program developed for disadvantaged Americans help in Nepal or other LDC's?
3) Can sports really promote peace in unstable places like Kashmir? In sites of ethnic cleansing, like Bhutan? Among disenfranchised, marginalized economic sectors such as mountain porters, whose children generally don't attend school?
4) What is to be made of the propensity of sporting events (eg soccer matches in Europe and South America) to degenerate into riots?
5) Do we have to find value in all sports? What about mountain biking? Are snow-mobile and all-terrain-vehicle use "sports"? If we characterize them as something else, do we risk seeing them morph into sports through the imposition of competitive rules? What about extreme sports? Is promoting peace through risk an acceptable strategy? Are there limits?
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