• Beyond life-skills: Talented athletes, existential learning and (un)learning the life of an athlete 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Ryba, Tatiana V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Following developments in educational discourse more broadly, learning discourses in youth sport have been shaped by outcome-based and instrumental goals of developing useful life-skills for ‘successful’ lives. There is, ...
    • Learning in sport: From life skills to existential learning 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana V.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Youth sport is habitually promoted as an important context for learning that contributes to a person’s broader development beyond sport-specific skills. A growing body of research in this area has operated within a life ...
    • Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect 

      Ronkainen, Noora; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Aggerholm, Kenneth; Ryba, Tatiana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      New forms of neoliberal femininity create demanding horizons of expectation for young women. For talented athletes, these pressures are intensified by the establishment of dual-career discourses that construct the combination ...