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Professional education and training for early career players in the Australian Football League: footy first, second and third

Hickey, Christopher and Kelly, Peter 2005, Professional education and training for early career players in the Australian Football League: footy first, second and third, in AARE 2005 : Creative dissent: constructive solutions: proceedings of the AARE 2005 international education research conference, Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 1-13.

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Title Professional education and training for early career players in the Australian Football League: footy first, second and third
Author(s) Hickey, Christopher
Kelly, Peter
Conference name Australian Association for Research in Education. Conference (2005: Sydney, N.S.W.)
Conference location Sydney, N.S.W.
Conference dates 27 November - 1 December 2005
Title of proceedings AARE 2005 : Creative dissent: constructive solutions: proceedings of the AARE 2005 international education research conference
Editor(s) Jeffrey, P.
Publication date 2005
Conference series Australian Association for Research in Education Conference
Start page 1
End page 13
Publisher Australian Association for Research in Education
Place of publication Melbourne, Vic.
Summary In this presentation we discuss some of the findings of a research project funded by the Australian Football League (AFL) titled: Getting the Balance Right: Professionalism, Performance, Prudentialism and Playstations in the Life of AFL Footballers. The research explored the following issues: the emergence and evolution of a ‘professional identity’ for AFL footballers – an identity that has many facets including the emerging ideas that a professional leads a balanced life, and has a prudent orientation to the future, to life after football. This ‘professional identity’ isn’t natural, and must be developed through a range of ‘professional development’ activities (a common link to all other ‘professions’). In the AFL at this time professional development has a focus on engaging players in a variety of education and training activities – TAFE & University courses, and workshops and seminars that the industry has put in place to educate players about issues that the industry sees as important.

The presentation will focus on our research with players we classified as Early Career players. For many of these 17 to 21 year old young men the later years of secondary schooling were compromised in their pursuit of an AFL career, and their subsequent drafting is followed by intense efforts to physically prepare them for football. In this context our research indicates that many Early Career players put football first, second and third – education and training, and industry expectations that they participate in this sort of professional development come further down their list of priorities.
Notes Included with the kind permission of The Australian Association of Researchers in Education
ISSN 1324-9320
Language eng
Field of Research 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
ERA Research output type E Conference publication
HERDC collection year 2006
Copyright notice ©2005, The Author
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005929
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