Winds of change: going back to the basics
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Date
1998
Authors
Bukhala, P.W.
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Kenya Association for Health, Physical Education, recreation, Sport and Dance
Abstract
The recent formation of a committee to develop policies on Sports for All in Kenya
indicate the new thinking in the area of sports. Our Universities' sports programmes for
a long time have depended on voluntary participation of students in the various sports
provided. Once finances have been allocated for sports and the sports tutors assigned
responsibilities, it has been assumed that everything else will take its course. However,
observation of sports programmes in both public and private universities has shown that
only few students are involved. The rest of the students are relegated to passive
participants or at best they never appear near sports grounds. In this article focus has
been placed on early sports Training as a determinant of future participation. The
article also provides case studies of how some countries have tried to enhance youth
sports programmes. Lastly the article provides some examples on how sports can be
organised in our Universities
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Book chapter