Youth Game Changers: Curriculum and Pathways Strategies for Youth Leadership Through Sport
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Singapore 2025
Schools within the Asia-Pacific region have a wealth of smart, talented, and passionate school-aged athletes. However, only a small percentage of these young people will realise their ambitions to compete in an Olympic, Paralympic or World Championship event. Nonetheless, their passion for sport, combined with their leadership and academic capacities, position them as key stakeholders in ensuring that sport for social good initiatives, such as the 2032 Legacy, achieve their aspirations for the broader community.
This PHASE workshop provides an overview of the leadership, career pathways and curriculum approaches underpinning our UQ Youth Game Changers initiative. Developed in collaboration with Queensland schools, Youth Game Changers is an initiative of the Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland and Matthew Flinders Anglican College. UQ Youth Game Changers is one of three signature “Inspiring Futures” programs developed at Flinders and seeking to maximise the value proposition of school sport for youth.
Youth Game Changers seeks to mitigate the impediment that “you cannot be what you cannot see.” The program facilitates students’ interaction with authentic, high-performing role models within the context of a purposeful, experiential event. Drawing on self-determination theory, YGC invests in students’ individual and collective potential for enacting advocacy and change within the context of sport for social good initiatives. Workshop participants will explore the youth leadership and career pathways and entrepreneurial approaches underpinning the YGC curriculum with a view to delivery within their own schools and/or participation in the UQ Youth Game Changers annual event.
Conference Edition:
Singapore 2025
Singapore 2025
Job Role Applicability:
- Middle Years
- Secondary Years
- Athletic Directors
Tags:
- Curriculum Planning
- Sports Education
- Youth Leadership through Sport
Type of Session:
Presentation
Presentation
Most applicable to educators working in the following areas:
- Middle School [Age 11 - 13]
- High School [Age 14 - 17]
