The educational role of organized sport programmes in supporting the physical wellness and rehabilitation of juvenile offender learners : a case of a Gauteng correctional school

Abstract

Sport has been identified as a vehicle in addressing rehabilitation in many correctional centres of juvenile offenders. The study focused on the educational role of organised sport programmes in supporting the physical wellness and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. Furthermore, it explored how sport as a physical wellness component may be enhanced through various activities in the correctional school’s context. It also explored how the teaching and learning activities support the role played by sport. The main aim of the current study was to explore and to investigate the role played by sport among the juvenile offender learners in promoting the physical wellness. Furthermore, the study was embedded in the interpretive paradigm. The qualitative research design was employed. The open-ended questionnaire and semi-structure interviews were used to collect data in order to gain insight of the juvenile offender learners and understand the experiences of an educational role of organised sport in a correctional centre. Purposive sampling was used in sampling participants for the study. Sport Recreation Art Culture officials, teachers, principal and the juvenile offender learners were selected to participated in the study voluntarily. The participants were given the consent forms to complete after they understood agreed to participate. Data were analysed manually by the researcher. The findings revealed that organised sport programmes strategies were successful in reducing juvenile crime and appear to develop feelings of competence, connectedness and empowerment among juvenile offender learners. It is recommended that the DCS should prioritise physical wellness in sport as one of the strategies in order to achieve its objective of rehabilitating juvenile offender learners and lowering recidivism.

Dipapadi di laeditswe go ba mokgwa wo o somiswago mafelong a mmalwa a tshokollo ya bagolegwanyane. Nyakisiso ye e mabapi le taetso ya bohlokwa bja mananeo a tsa dipapadi ao a beakanyeditswego go hlohleletsa boitshidullo bja mmele le tshokollo ya bagolegwanyane go mekgwa ya go se amogelege setshabeng. Nyakisisong ye go lebeletswe le ka tsela yeo boitshidullo bja mmele bo kago go maatlafatswa ka mekgwanakgwana ya go fapana go ya le ka dinyakwa tsa lefelo la tshokollo ya bagolegwa. Go seditswe le ka fao mananeo a tsa thuto ya bagolegwanyane a kago thekga bohlokwa bja mananeo a dipapadi. Maikemisetso a nyakisiso ye e bile go fatolla le go utolla bohlokwa bja dipapadi go barutwana ba bagolegwanyane go hlohleletsa bophelo bjo bobotse mebeleng ya bona. Nyakisiso e ithekgile godimo ga mokgwa wa tlhathollo wo o amantshitswego le mokgwanyakisiso wa boleng. Kgoboketsong ya tshedimoso, go somisitswe phatadiganong ya dipotsiso tsa go hloka magomo gore monyakisisi a kgone go fata tshedimoso go bakgathatema ba gagwe gore ba mo utollele maitemogelo a bona ka ga bohlokwa bja mananeo a dipapadi ao ba a beakanyetswago lefelong la bona la tshokollo. Bakgathatema bao ba hlaotswego ka mokgwatlhaolo wa maikemisetso e bile; Baemedi ba lefapha la tsa dipapadi, bokgabo le setso; Barutabana; Hlogo ya sekolo le barutwana ba kgolegong. Bakgathatema ba tseere karolo ka go latela molawana wa setho le botho wa boikgafo le boithaopo. Bakgathatema ba ile ba fiwa foromo ya boitlamo bja bokgathatema morago ga go hlalosetswa ka ga maikemisetso a nyakisiso le go dumelelana le monyakisisi. Tshekasekong ya tshedimoso, go utolotswe gore mananeo a tsa dipapadi ao a beakanyetswago barutwana dikgolegong tsa bagolegwanyane a kgatha tema ye bohlokwa tshokollong le phokotsong ya bohlokotsebe, ka ge dipapadi di godisa moya wo mobotse wa phadisano, tshomisano, le maatlafalo magareng ga barutwana ba dikgolegong. Go ya ka dikutollo tseo di bilego gona, go akantswe gore Lefapha la tsa Tshokollo ya Bagolegwa le ele tlhoko mananeo a dipapadi le boitshidullo bja bagolegwanyane bjalo ka mekgwa ya tshokollo go fokotsa gore ba se be le poeletso ya bosenyi.

Sport is ‘n erkende strategie in die rehabilitasie van jeugmisdadigers in korrektiewe sentra. Hierdie studie fokus op die opvoedkundige rol van georganiseerde sportprogramme ter ondersteuning van die fisieke welsyn en rehabilitasie van jeugmisdadige leerders. Dit ondersoek verder hoe sport, as ‘n komponent van liggaamlike welsyn, bevorder en uitgebou kan word deur verskeie aktiwiteite in korrektiewe skoolverband. Omgekeerd, ondersoek dit ook hoe onderrig- en leeraktiwiteite die rol van sport ondersteun. Die hoofdoel van die studie was om die rol van sport in die fisieke welsyn van jeugmisdadigers te verken en te ondersoek. Die studie is in die interpretatiewe paradigm ingebed en maak gebruik van kwalitatiewe data-insamelingsmetodes. Oop-einde vraelyste en semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude is gebruik om data in te samel ten einde insig te verwerf ten opsigte van die jeugmisdadige leerder, asook van hulle eie ervaring van die opvoedkundige rol van georganiseerde sport in die korrektiewe sentrum. Doelgerigte steekproefneming is gedoen om die deelnemers aan die ondersoek te selekteer. Die amptenare belas met Sport, Ontspanning, Kuns en Kultuur, onderwysers, die skoolhoof en jeugmisdadige leerders het vrywillig deelgeneem aan die studie. Hulle het geskrewe toestemming verleen nadat hulle hul gewilligheid tot deelname te kenne gegee het. Die navorser het die data per hand ontleed, wat tot die bevinding gelei het dat strategieë vir georganiseerde sportprogramme suksesvol was om die geneigdheid tot misdaad by die leerder deelnemers te bekamp. Dit blyk dat sport gevoelens van bevoegdheid, verbondenheid en bemagtiging by jeugmisdadigers bevorder. Dit word aanbeveel dat die Department van Korrektiewe Dienste prioriteit sal verleen aan die algehele welsyn van jeugmisdadigers deur middel van sport. Sport word as een van die strategieë beskou wat meewerk tot die uiteindelike doelwit van die Departement om jeugmisdadigers te rehabiliteer en toekomstige herhaling van misdaad te voorkom.