This study intends to investigate assimilation in Swedish ice hockey. The overall aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of how ice hockey associations are working to recruit young individuals with a different ethnic background. The specific aim is to find out the opinion of the association leaders in the subject. Furthermore, the study aim to explain the obstacles and opportunities association leaders sees with assimilation in ice hockey. To answer the purpose of the study and the issue, the study was conducted by semi-structured interviews with eight leaders in eight different associations. All but one respondent are active in associations within the county Västerbotten. Half of the associations where medium to large, in terms of members, the other half is small associations with less then 300 members. The results of the study showed that the respondents want a greater effort when it comes to assimilation within ice hockey, not only for ice hockey, for sports in general. A few of the sport associations had worked or works with assimilation. Furthermore leaders felt that communication was an obstacle for the associations to bring the interest of newly arrived citizens. They also mention the fact that ice hockey is an expensive sport as an obstacle. The results also show that the respondents believe there were a need to be greater cooperation between associations and the Swedish ice hockey federation.

Covid-19 har varit en världsomfattande pandemi som påverkat befolkningen på flera plan. UNICEF varnar nu för de långsiktiga konsekvenser som barn och ungas välbefinnande utsätts för och menar att det kan komma skapa en förlorad covid- generation. Faktorer som påverkar individer och bevisats vara betydelsefulla för en god hälsa är fysisk aktivitet och social gemenskap. Att få röra på sig samt finna en social gemenskap möjliggörs bland annat i föreningsidrotten, varpå deltagandet anses vara ytterst betydelsefullt för hälsan. Därutöver anses deltagande i föreningsverksamhet vara en förutsättning för undervisning och lärande. Med grund i detta och utifrån pandemins effekter, var syftet med studien att belysa hur föreningsledare beskriver att de utvecklat sitt pedagogiska ledarskap för att främja lärande och hälsa för barn och unga under covid-19-pandemin, samt att utforska vad som har motiverat föreningsledare till att vidmakthålla träning för barn och unga. Sociokulturellt lärande och KASAM utgjorde studiens teoretiska utgångspunkt. Datamaterialet erhölls via 11 semistrukturerade intervjuer med föreningsledare inom olika idrotter, vilka sedan analyserades utifrån en konventionell kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet påvisade att föreningsledarnas pedagogiska ledarskap hade utvecklats i form av att vara mer flexibelt och kommunikativt, vilket möjliggjorde förutsättningar att fortsätta bedriva träning och lärande under covid-19-pandemin. Därtill visade det sig att bibehållandet av idrottsutövarnas hälsa samt fortsatt föreningsutveckling var betydelsefulla motivationsfaktorer för föreningsledarnas vidmakthållande av föreningsidrotten. Slutligen skulle det utifrån studiens resultat i relation till tidigare forskning kunna förmodas att föreningsledarnas utvecklade pedagogiska ledarskap genererat goda lärandemiljöer, vilket vidare främjat idrottsutövarnas fysiska, psykiska och sociala hälsa. / Covid-19 has been a worldwide pandemic which has affected the population on several levels. UNICEF is now warning of the long-term consequences for children and young people’s well-being and believes that it could create a lost Covid generation. Factors that affect individuals and have proven to be important for good health are physical activity and social community. Being active in a physical and social community is made possible by club sports, whereupon participation is extremely important for health. In addition, participation in community sports is considered a prerequisite for teaching and learning. Based on this, and on the effects of the pandemic, the purpose of the study was to shed light on how sports coaches describe how they developed their pedagogical leadership to promote learning and health for children and young people during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as exploring what has motivated sports coaches to maintain training for children and youths. The theories applied in the study were socio-cultural learning and SOC. The data material was obtained via 11 semi-structured interviews with coaches in various sports, which were then analyzed based on a conventional qualitative content analysis. The results showed that the sports coaches’ pedagogical leadership had developed in the shape of being more flexible and communicative, which enabled conditions for continuing to conduct training and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, it turned out that the maintenance of the athlete’s health and continued association development were important motivational factors for the sports coaches maintenance of community sports. Finally, based on the results of the study in relation to previous research, it could be assumed that the sports coaches developed pedagogical leadership generated good learning environments, which further promoted the athletes’ physical, mental, and social health.