Sport learning cultures: interrogating the complexities tied to rugby, cricket, and football's global development

Hazel Maxwell, Michelle O’Shea, Christopher Yorke and Mike Rayner

Chapter 6 in Handbook on Sport and Culture, 2025, pp 77-92 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Knowledge development is crucial for the survival of any community; however, a multitude of learning cultures are (re)produced within and through sport. The present chapter interrogates some of these differences by exploring how sports have developed and are practised in cultural contexts and to what effect(s). Rugby union, cricket, and football in England, Pakistan, and Australia provide the material global and sporting contexts for our investigation. Theoretically, we apply and seek to extend Hofstede's (2011) theoretical perspectives and cultural dimensions of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, long-/short-term orientation, and indulgence/restraint. We recognise the fluidity of sport cultures and how, as new and emerging sporting cultures are produced, traditional cultural sporting norms and practices can be in conflict.

Keywords: Learning culture; Rugby; Football; Cricket; Global development; Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339976
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