football Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/football/ Pushing The Edge for Critical Thinking in Education Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:27:29 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pushingtheedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-PTE-512x512-32x32.png football Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/football/ 32 32 Having a Voice and a Sense of Belonging in a Soccer Club with Ramon Spaaij https://pushingtheedge.org/having-a-voice-and-sense-of-belonging-in-a-soccer-club/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:00:47 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=10359 It’s a soccer team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees to Australia. So how do the young players construct their identity and sense of belonging? And what about the young women facing narrow and discriminatory views of femininity at the club? How do they resist? Episode 38: Overview In this episode, we focus on a soccer team in the western suburbs of Melbourne Australia. A team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees from the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia). Our guest (Ramon Spaaij) studied this team, its players and families over a 3 year period.

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]]> Tackling Homophobia and Transphobia in Football with Angie Greene https://pushingtheedge.org/tackling-homophobia-and-transphobia-in-football/ Tue, 23 May 2017 10:00:40 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=10339 Angie Greene comes from a talented sporting family. From her Pop, to her dad, to her two brothers, all have excelled in sport. Her two brothers’ sporting journeys couldn’t be more different though – because one is gay. Episode 37: Overview Warning: This episode contains language that some people may find offensive or distressing. Angie Greene’s been surrounded by Professional Sport since she was a young kid. Her Pop, Frank Sedgman was a champion tennis player, her dad Russell is in the Australian Football League Hall of Fame, and her two brothers were, and are talented athletes. Their sports journeys though

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]]> Connecting Sporting Clubs Back to Their Communities with Sue McGill https://pushingtheedge.org/connecting-sporting-clubs-back-to-their-communities/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:00:45 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=10145 Sports clubs live and die by participation - that's what Sue McGill thinks. Her organisation, The Huddle, is determined to serve the multicultural community it's part of.

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