Dancing with Innovation: A Case Study on the Organizing Process for a Folk Sports Team in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chang, Ying-Hsin, 張瀛心
• Other Authors: Kao, Li-Chuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10937676442875758062

碩士 === 臺北市立體育學院 === 運動教育研究所 === 99 === This case study explored the organizing process of a sports team of a college in the northern Taiwan. The sports team consisted of performers of rope skipping, diabolo, acrobatics, and shuttle cock kicking. Since this sports team belonged to a department at an urban college in Taiwan, it was closely related to the college policy of student recruitment. There were 6 research participants in the study, including a department chair, coaches and team captains. Through three-month face-to-face as well as group interviewing, observing, document collecting, and journal taking, the researcher built up research data. After collecting data, narrative analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, and thematic analysis were used to analyze the data. We found that the organizing process of the team was shown in the relationship between its goals and its identities to the environment, especially its efforts in seeking innovations. We found that the organizing process of the team was shown in the relationship between its innate quality and its reactions to the environment, especially its efforts in seeking innovations. Besides, we named seven phases for its development: “Sand,” “Round,” “Peak,” “Low tide,” “Resume,” “Second Round,” and “Second peak.” Each of the phases unrolled various styles and features of the team. Finally, there were meanings proposed by the participants. For department leader: fostering students’ professional capacities. For the coach: spreading Taiwan’s folk sports culture. For team members: creating a home and a diploma.