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Sport and Disability
Inclusion is primarily discussed in education. With the increasing number of member states of the United Nations ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, academics have vividly discussed inclusion in the context of other areas of life, such as the community at large, as ‘social inclusion’ in the context of work and employment, and with regard to the aspects addressed by Article 30.5 of the Convention, namely cultural life, recreation, leisure, and sport. This volume is organized around the topic inclusion in sport and has a particular focus on the participation of people with disabilities in sport. Typical barriers for people with disabilities to participate i...
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2014
The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education (ARCIE) is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education.
Special Olympics
This book brings together academic work on Special Olympics and specifically on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in various sport contexts and other areas of life, by ways of both empirical research and theoretically informed papers. Inclusion in sport is a topic that is mostly explored in connection with the participation of people with disabilities in general. In public debates on inclusion and sport in the global society, participation is predominantly discussed in a normative way, e.g., in connection with the campaign The Revolution is Inclusion by Special Olympics, describing it as an “all-out effort to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities”. With this international collection, the authors seek to contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of Special Olympics in Context of Inclusion Debates and establish a foundation for future scholarship. The chapters in this book can contribute to a new research agenda on Special Olympics, particularly participatory approaches. The chapters in this book were originally published in Sport in Society.
Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport
This formative work discusses transgender people’s inclusion in everyday sport in the United Kingdom. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal issues regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people. Offering a critical perspective on the current landscape surrounding this topic, the book draws from insightful interviews conducted by the author with 18 transgender and non-binary individuals. The author uses a critical social science approach to explore the heteropatriarchal construction of sport in the modern industrialised West, and how this has formed the backdrop to the continuing discrimination towards many athletes, not just those who ar...
Research Handbook on Sports and Society
This state-of-the-art Research Handbook provides a challenging and critical examination of the complex issues surrounding sports in contemporary societies. Featuring contributions from world-leading scholars, it focuses upon the impact of their research, together with significant social issues and controversies in sport.
Handbook of Sport and International Development
With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, this comprehensive Handbook provides a contemporary, multi-disciplinary overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in this critical space. It investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts.
Sports in International Politics
Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system. While such historical trends of politicization of sports continue—witness the nationalism on display at each Olympic Games—today sports are equally seen as a strategic key for advancing human rights, building peace, strengthening social cohesion, and fostering development. International sports reside between a “realist” world of power and profit while simultaneously becoming an instrument of liberal internationalism that sees the advancement of individual values of rights, gender equality, and empowerment of ofte...
Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion
Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities, demonstrating knowledge developed from the field of sports practices of people with disabilities. It covers three interrelated themes. First, it covers the different facets of the history of sports organizations set up during the 1950s for athletes with motor or intellectual impairments. The second part focuses on the athletes themselves. Voices are given to the top-level athletes in adapted sports: people with intellectual impairment; the pioneers of wheelchair racing who invented a new discipline, off-road wheelchair racing; an...
Inklusion in Sport und Kirche
Sport ist für viele Menschen weltweit ein integraler Bestandteil ihres Lebens geworden. Der Gedanke der Inklusion ist im organisierten Sport angekommen. "Sport für alle" und "Sport von allen" scheint aus dieser Perspektive weitgehend selbstverständlich zu werden. Peter Noss zeigt auf, dass die Lage jedoch komplizierter ist: Noch immer sind Menschen aus verschiedenen Gründen von der Teilhabe am Sport ausgeschlossen. Die soziologischen Hintergründe dafür hat Niklas Luhmann formuliert, eine theologische Grundlage für eine inklusive Perspektive bietet Jürgen Moltmann an, der zugleich auch ein Impulsgeber für eine Öffentliche Theologie ist. Positionspapiere und Stellungnahmen aus Theologie, Kirche, organisiertem Sport und Sportwissenschaften werden analysiert und miteinander ins Gespräch gebracht, um Chancen und Grenzen für inklusives Konzept aufzuzeigen.
Bewegung, Spiel und Sport im Kindesalter
Sowohl der Grundschulsport als auch das organisierte und informelle Sporttreiben im Kindesalter sind in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten mit neuartigen Herausforderungen konfrontiert und von Wandlungsprozessen erfasst worden. Neben der Berücksichtigung heterogener Lernvoraussetzungen der Schüler*innen im Fach Sport hat nicht zuletzt die Etablierung des Ganztagsunterrichts in der Grundschule eine massive Ausweitung der Kooperationen mit Sportvereinen sowie Trägern der offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit begünstigt. Die Beiträger*innen diskutieren zentrale Entwicklungslinien und Zukunftsaufgaben des Grundschulsports sowie des organisierten und informellen Kindersports.
