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My name is Addmore Hapanyengwi. I was born and did my primary education for a masters degree in Zimbabwe. In the year 2007 I started working in South Africa as an educator. I did my PhD at Witwatersrand University from 2016 and worked as an assistant lecturer. I am now fully employed by the Department of Education, though I am looking for a university post.
ABSTRACT:
“A predicament of rugby and soccer: racial and gender participation in South African selected secondary schools”
Addmore Hapanyengwi Department of Education – Gauteng
Over the world, Sports have been promoted in schools because social participation and achievement in sports have been found to promote self-confidence, create an opportunity to socialize with their peers, promotes students’ health, improves physical fitness, increases academic performance and improves their sense of relaxation (Malan & van Deventer, 2013; Ongong’a, Okwara & Okello, 2010; van Hout, Young, Bassett & Hooft, 2013). Sports may thus encourage students to persevere in advanced courses by integrating them into their schools and instilling the drive and confidence to succeed. However, the disparities of South African schools continue to reproduce inequitable racial and gender participation in sport, particularly rugby and soccer in South Africa. The purpose of this research study was to critically explore and interrogate gender and racial participation in rugby and soccer and problematize factors that shaped the nature of gender and racial involvement or uninvolvement in rugby and soccer in secondary schools in Johannesburg, South Africa. New trending emerged that shows a more improved girls’ participation in the so called masculine sports such as rugby and soccer. Girls just like boys easily organize informal play and compete against each other with great enjoyment, be it soccer or netball. This study used constructivism paradigm and exploratory case study design and qualitative semi-structured individual interviews with soccer and rugby coaches and soccer and rugby players in selected secondary schools. The Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was used to analyze the data.
