Review article
Stakeholders in sports policy and their role in athlete education
Iva Ćužić
; studentica doktorskog studija na Sveučilištu u Mostaru
Abstract
Athlete education is a current problem of public sports policy, so the aim of this paper is to determine the structure and the relationship between actors in sports policy and their role in improving the quality of athlete education. Athlete education came into the focus with the introduction of recommendations for the dual career of athletes by the European Union in 2012. The aim of the recommendations is to encourage member states to harmonize sports and education policies in a way that allows them to adapt to the needs of athletes, so that athletes have the opportunity to pursue a dual career.
Identified stakeholders in sports policy are individuals, groups and institutions that are divided into formal and informal stakeholders depending on whether they have formal decision-making authority or not. Based on previous knowledge and practice, the main problems for establishing a dual career of athletes are the lack of initiatives, programs and policies in implementing recommendations for dual careers and lack of communication between formal and informal stakeholders to achieve successful coordination between the two policies, sports and education. Therefore, it can be concluded that it is necessary to establish better interaction between actors in sports policy as well as between stakeholders in the education system in order to eliminate obstacles to the harmonization of sports and educational obligations and to develop a common system that will adequately meet the requirements in sports but not at the expense of neglecting education.
Keywords
stakeholders in sports policy; educational policy; dual career
Hrčak ID:
300447
URI
Publication date:
20.4.2023.
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