Adnan Odartey Lamptey , Won Jae Lee

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.1 Vol.6(No.2) 1-18, 2022

This study set out to explore the socio-cultural experiences of five female taekwondo athletes within the age brackets of Generation Z in relation to their taekwondo practice. Using the ground theory approach, the five athletes were subjected to open interviews, with three of them again subjected to focus group discussion to reach theoretical saturation. The results show that although taekwondo practice, as with other martial arts, is expected to break gender barriers and discrimination in society, in the socio-cultural context of Ghanaian society, female taekwondo practitioners are considered by many as socially undesirable. They are taunted as “man-women,” which connotes a tomboy lifestyle that is believed to predispose women who practice martial arts to develop masculine features and physical aggression toward their future husbands. On the other side of their experience, the athletes attain high status when the media profiles them on television for their achievements in taekwondo tournaments. Together with their social media activities, as members of Generation Z are accustomed to, they earn a lot of friends and endorsement. These two contrasting experiences of the five participants in the study were explained within the theoretical constructs of stigmatization and status conferral. The study concludes that the socio-cultural experiences of these female taekwondo practitioners are context specific, and therefore, more insights are needed across jurisdictions for wider theorization. Meanwhile, stakeholders need to step up in their efforts to disabuse the minds of Ghanaians regarding the mistaken perceptions about taekwondo if martial arts are to be used as social re-engineering tools for female empowerment.

Taekwondo, Africa, Generation Z, stigmatization, status conferral

Jihyun Lee , Hyokju Maeng , Hannah Yang

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.19 Vol.6(No.2) 19-31, 2022

Parental support is one of the intertwining factors that affect physical activity (PA) in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). With multiple COVID-19 regulations that have posed many challenges for people participating in their usual social activities, including PA, there is a need to examine parent concerns and support behaviors for PA of children with ASD. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate how the PA support behaviors of parents of children with ASD and COVID-19 concerns about their children’s PA participation changed during the pandemic and how these variables are correlated with other variables, such as their children’s demographic and PA related variables. Parents (n = 253) of children with ASD aged 10-17 years old completed an online survey that queried their children’s demographic information, parent PA support behaviors, parent and child PA, COVID-19 concerns about their children’s PA participation, and the perceived importance of their children’s PA. The results showed that parents’ COVID-19 concerns for their children participating in PA significantly correlated to the severity of their children’s ASD. Parents who identified as more physically active and perceived their children’s PA participation as more important tended to show higher COVID-19-related concerns. In addition, higher COVID-19 concerns among parents negatively correlated with their children’s PA variables. Parent PA support behaviors showed a significant reduction during the pandemic compared to before the pandemic. Overall, the findings suggest that it is important to provide parents with information on safe PA participation and resources to promote their children’s PA.

parental support behaviors, physical activity, autism, children, COVID-19 pandemic

Jinwen Xie , Kyungwon Jung , Yuanyuan Cao , Chang Liu

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.33 Vol.6(No.2) 33-49, 2022

Karate is growing rapidly in China. As of 2021, 21 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions in China have established karate associations, and there are around 300,000-400,000 karate practitioners in China. However, little research has been done on the understanding and discussion of karate among the Chinese. This paper used literature review to reveal the Chinese perspectives on karate. The “karate” was used as a keyword to search relevant newspapers and articles in the People’s Daily and CNKI databases. Besides, books about karate from the National Library of China were compiled. The results showed that since the 1980s, the debate on karate has gradually emerged in China. From the 1980s to the 1990s, the Chinese have always held the understanding that karate originated from the Chinese martial arts of the Tang Dynasty. This understanding may have been brought into China by the Chinese who had been to Japan. However, this understanding is unreliable, and many Chinese martial art researchers accept this theory uncritically. Since 2010, with the introduction of karate majors in some Chinese universities, research on karate has increased rapidly. Chinese researchers have put forward a wide range of theories on the historical origin of karate by using the documents of China and Japan, such as Theory of the Thirty-six families from Min (久米三十六姓輸入説), Theory of development from Okinawan dance and so forth.

China, Martial arts, Sports culture, Japanese Budo, Karate, 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Ji-sun Byun , Won-young Lee

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.51 Vol.6(No.2) 51-62, 2022

This study is on mining audio data by viewing the results of the oral recording project ordered by the state as unstructured data. Among the oral record data produced in the 2017 Sports Development Contributor Oral Recording Project, the Lee 00 audio recording files were used as the subject of the study. Also among the oral record data, oral life stories were recorded as voice data, which was converted into text data and used as the main subject of the study. Keywords were extracted from the text data, words related to the keywords were extrated, and the frequency was calculated again from the text data. As a result of the study, the main keywords of Lee's oral notes and the related keywords, which may the co-occurring words of the main keywords, appeared with high frequency in the oral notes. Through this finding, it was possible to grasp the identity of the narrator and the part that the narrator focused on during his lifetime.

oral record data, sports, state-led oral recording data, audio mining, text mining

Jae-eun Kim , Mi-ra Roh , Pil-kyu Yoon

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.63 Vol.6(No.2) 63-77, 2022

This study analyzed how dance education at universities was conducted in the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyzed previous studies on dance education at universities and conducted in-depth interviews with dance professors and students. When online classes began with the pandemic, it was difficult and confusing for professors and students to adapt to online dance classes. Professors lost their confidence as educators, and students could not concentrate on their classes. After many trials and errors, professors conducted online classes, where students were the center of the class, and students were highly satisfied with these classes. In addition, interaction between professors and students became active by efficiently using the online system. During online classes in the pandemic, professors realized that changes in existing teaching methods were necessary. Education in the department of dance at universities needs to change the teaching environment and educational methods. There should be various forms of education based on emotional state expression and body recognition through dance. It should be possible to develop, accept, and utilize the necessary teaching skills both online and offline. Professors should be able to act as assistants for students in class. They must have fair evaluation criteria for contactless classes. It is necessary to adjust the number of students suitable for non-face-to-face classes. Various teaching methods such as STEAM, Blended Learning, and PBL should be applied so that students can experience problem solving on their own and form critical thinking and creativity.

Corona pandemic, dance education, untact class, project-based learning, STEAM

Eunhye Kim , Seojin Youn

DOI:10.26584/RDPA.2022.08.6.2.79 Vol.6(No.2) 79-88, 2022

The purpose of this study is to develop a measuring tool for the dance career interest scale. According to the research by Kim, Yoon, and Kim (2020), the concepts and preliminary items were retrieved, and the items were then screened with experts through auditing. A survey was conducted with 549 dance students enrolled in 9 art high schools located in the metropolitan area, Chungcheong area, and Gyeongsang area. Reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were used to verify validity using SPSS and AMOS programs. Finally, The dance career interest was measured by a set of 51 questions divided into six categories.: ‘Creative,’ ‘Social,’ ‘Enterprising,’ ‘Conventional,’ ‘Realistic,’ and ‘Investigative’. The developed dance career interest scale can be used as basic data for career education and career expansion of dance majors.

dance majors, scale development, interest, career education