Learning Outcome 2: Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.

Introduction: Below shows an annotated bibliography that I made in the early stages of my research paper to help guide me with supporting articles for my research. For each annotation, I have provided the claim I used in the article with support from my paper.

Annotated Bibliography:

Merga, M. K., & Booth, S. (2017). Investigating Debates Around Racism in Sport to Facilitate Perspective Transformation in the Secondary English Classroom. Journal of Transformative Education, 15(3), 184–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344617692773

This article examines how the english classroom can be a place to explore different viewpoints through texts and how in sport, racism can be expressed in front of everyone quite abruptly. 

Claim: I will be using their information about racism in sport to back up one of my viewpoints. Youth sports could be have a lasting impact in which discrimination would be out of the picture.

Support: Merga and Booth (2017) point to Carrington and McDonald (2002) who suggests that “sport is a particularly useful sociological site’ for examining contemporary racism, as ’it articulates the complex interplay of ‘race’, nation, culture and identity in very public and direct ways” (p. 2).  Knowing that they believe in something completely opposite to what you believe in really means nothing if you’re working together to get points on your side of the scoreboard.

Ramón Spaaij (2015) Refugee youth, belonging and community sport, Leisure Studies, 34:3, 303-318, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.893006

This article goes into detail about how refugee youth are given the opportunity to become apart of a community through sports. 

Claim: This relates to the third solution of my essay which is the thought that communities can be brought closer together through sport and everything that comes along with sporting events.

Support: According to Ramón Spaaij, the forms of belonging that brought about by sports are from face to face experiences with other athletes as well as the way media and politics interpret images of ethnic minorities.  Spaaij states the fact that interactions between people in sports are face to face. Guarding somebody on defense or trying to get by someone on offense. As well as communicating with the people on your team.

Rauscher, L., & Cooky, C. (2016). Ready for anything the world gives her? : A critical look at sports-based positive youth development for girls. Sex Roles, 74(7), 288-298. doi:10.1007/s11199-014-0400-x

This article explains the development of young girls participating in sports at early ages. 

Claim: I think this can be very helpful in my essay because I can touch on the fact that girls and women deserve equal rights and sport is a great place to show that.

Support: Rauscher and Cooky state, “many programs have informally operated on the philosophy that sports programming itself can reduce risky behaviors and protect girls from the social problems they may encounter in their communities, such as gang activity and teen pregnancy” (Rauscher and Cooky, p. 290, 2016).  I think this is huge because if sports have the ability to keep young children safe, then why not open up more sports centers and get kids involved from all ages.