体育科教育学／ポスター発表

[11教-ポ-02] A Student Who Is an Athlete, or an Athlete Who Is a Student?Governing Identity and Dual-Career Development in Japanese and Taiwanese University Sport

*Ren-Shiang Jiang¹ (1. National Taiwan University of Sport)

How institutional governance positions athletes, as "student-athletes" (student identity primary) or "athlete-students" (athletic identity primary), has significant consequences for career development yet remains underexamined in comparative sport policy. This study compares the governance logics shaping student-athlete identity in Japan and Taiwan, examining how institutional design shapes dual-career development conditions. The study employs qualitative comparative analysis, combining ethnographic content analysis of policy documents with nine in-depth interviews across Japanese policy bodies, universities, and corporations, supplemented by Taiwan's national assessment data (2019-2022). In Taiwan, the athletic class system has institutionalised an athlete-student logic since the 1970s: students enter sport-specialised tracks from elementary school, with coaches incentivised by competitive outcomes over student development; national assessment data shows that sport class students score 5C (below basic proficiency) at nearly three times the national average, with baseball students at six times, indicating systematic academic exclusion embedded in governance design. In Japan, sport's integration within the Ministry of Education has historically embedded a student-first logic; interview findings confirm that UNIVAS (2019) and SCSC (2017) function as dual-career platforms within pre-existing conditions where coaches are accountable to schools and academic standards apply uniformly to athletes. Yet even in Japan, secondary-school talent selection reproduces early, non-voluntary specialisation driven by parental and coaching pressure rather than athlete agency. These findings suggest that dual-career programmes are only as effective as the governance conditions that embed them; Taiwan renders visible a structural problem Japan shares in less concentrated form, and effective policy requires prior resolution of which identity governance structures treat as primary.