Pedals and Pedagogy: Cycles of Hope and Health.

The Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange (KVIBE) is an innovative youth bike program housed in Kokua Kalihi Valley Family Comprehensive Services (KKV), a community health center in Honolulu, Hawai'i. KVIBE utilizes a popular education model to raise the social consciousness of its youth participants, who are primarily working class, Indigenous, and native to the Philippines or the Pacific Islands, especially Micronesia. Initially designed as a bike repair program where youth could earn a bicycle through sweat equity, KVIBE has grown into an educational space that teaches bicycle mechanics as well as personal history and identity. The KVIBE curriculum incorporates a social determinants of health approach with the Four Connections Framework, an Indigenous health framework developed by KKV and the Islander Institute. This article shares details of this program, as a pedagogical model for programs to engage underserved and marginalized Asian, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian youth who suffer from displacement and historical trauma via colonization. Additionally, this article speaks to the importance of seeing marginalized youth not as an at-risk group but as agents in creating community health.

Significado de ser jogador de vôlei em fase de transição de carreira / Meaning to be volleyball player in career transition phase / Significado de ser jugador de voleibol en proceso de transición de carrera

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o significado atribuído a ser jogador de voleibol por atletas da categoria sub 19 em processo de transição de carreira. Foram avaliados dezesseis jogadores do sexo masculino, idades entre 17 e 18 anos, por meio de dados biográficos, questões fechadas e da pergunta geradora: "O que significa para você ser um jogador de vôlei? A análise dos discursos foi feita através dos procedimentos propostos por Miles e Huberman (2004). Foram obtidas quatro categorias de respostas: habilidades psicoemocionais e comportamentais; emoções no esporte; reconhecimento e retorno financeiro; competências como atleta/jogador. Segundo estes atletas, o significado do esporte está especialmente na paixão pela prática, mas também no aperfeiçoamento da tática e da técnica, no desenvolvimento de habilidades psicoemocionais e de comportamento, no reconhecimento profissional e pouco no retorno financeiro. Compreender o significado de ser jogador pode ser a chave para a elaboração de um plano de preparação psicológica que vise dar suporte às necessidades neste momento de escolha profissional.

The objective of this study is to assess the meaning of being that a volleyball player for the under-19 players who are experiencing a transition in their in career. Sixteen male players aged 17 and 18 were evaluated, by being asked the triggering question "What does being a volleyball player mean to you?" The analysis of the discourses was carried out according to the procedures recommended by Miles & Huberman (2004). Four response categories resulted: psychoemotional and behavioral skills, emotions in sport, recognition and financial return, skills as an athlete/player. The athletes showed that the meaning of sport lies especially in the passion for practice, but also, in the improving of their tactics and techniques, in the development of psychoemotional and behavioral skills, in the professional recognition and, to a lesser degree, in the financial aspect. Most athletes state they intend to continue in the juvenile sports categories, therefore, understanding the meaning of this activity in their life can be the key to the elaboration of a plan of psychological preparation whose aim is to provide support to their needs in this moment of professional choice.

El objeto de este estudio fue el de evaluar el significado de ser jugador de voleibol para jugadores de categoría sub-19 en proceso de transición de carrera.Se evaluaron dieciséis jugadores del sexo masculino, con edades entre 17 y 18 años, por medio de una pregunta generadora "¿Qué significa para ti el hecho de ser un jugador de vóleibol?" El análisis de los discursos se realizó según los procedimientos recomendados por Miles & Huberman (2004). Fueron obtenidas cuatro categorías de respuestas: habilidades psicoemocionales y comportamentales, emociones en el deporte, reconocimiento y retorno financiero, competencias como atleta/jugador. Los atletas han demostrado que el significado del deporte está en el perfeccionamiento de la táctica y de la técnica, en el desarrollo de habilidades psicoemocionales y de comportamiento, en el reconocimiento profesional y poco en el aspecto financiero. La mayoría de los atletas afirma que pretende permanecer en el deporte juvenil; por lo tanto, comprender qué significa esta actividad en sus vidas puede ser la llave para elaboración de un plan de preparación psicológica, con vistas a dar soporte a sus necesidades en este momento de elección profesional.