Story: Children and sport

More links and websites

• Sport New Zealand’s young people’s survey

  This section of the Sport New Zealand website looks at the results of a 2011 survey into school-aged children’s involvement in sport and other recreational activities.

• It’s all about children and young people: implementing a child/young person centred philosophy in sport and recreation

  A 2007 document from Sport and Recreation New Zealand (now Sport New Zealand) which provides guidelines for people running sport and recreation programmes for children and young people (PDF, 204 KB).

More suggestions and sources

• Collins, Chris, and Steve Jackson, eds. Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand. South Melbourne, Auckland: Thomson, 2007.

• Macdonald, Charlotte. ‘Ways of belonging: sporting spaces in New Zealand history.’ In New Oxford history of New Zealand, edited by Giselle Byrnes, 269–296. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Macdonald, Charlotte. Strong, beautiful and modern: national fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935–1960. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2012.

• Phillips, Jock. A man’s country?: the image of the Pakeha male, a history. Auckland: Penguin, 1987.