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Sport for Development

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Sport for Development book

What game are we playing?

Sport for Development

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Sport for Development book

What game are we playing?
ByFred Coalter
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 18 April 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203861257
Pages 224
eBook ISBN 9780203861257
Subjects Development Studies, Geography, Health and Social Care, Sports and Leisure
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Coalter, F. (2013). Sport for Development: What game are we playing? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203861257

ABSTRACT

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this comprehensive introduction to the area of ‘sport-for-development’, leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses and successes and failures of sport-for-development policies and programs.

Beginning with an outline of the historical development of policies of sport-for-development, this book explores the objectives that remain central to international sport-for-development initiatives, including issues of defining and measuring impacts, the development of self-efficacy and leadership skills, female empowerment, HIV/AIDS awareness and social capital. Drawing on a wealth of fieldwork experience and empirical data from the most extensive monitoring and evaluation project ever undertaken with sport-for-development organisations, this is an unparalleled and fully integrated assessment of theory, policy and practice in international sport-for-development.

Sport-for-development: What game are we playing is essential reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in sport-for-development, sports policy or international development.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Sport-for-development: limited focus programmes and broad gauge problems

chapter 3|21 pages

Conceptual entrepreneurs, liberation methodologists and research as a dirty word

chapter 4|23 pages

Self-efficacy beliefs: not so deficient after all?

chapter 5|21 pages

Self-esteem: best taken in moderation

chapter 6|25 pages

Sport-for-development, peer leaders and HIV and AIDS: a method in search of a theory?

chapter 7|24 pages

‘There is loads of relationships here’: developing a programme theory for sport-for-change programmes

chapter 8|22 pages

Social capital: a social good or for the social good?

chapter 9|13 pages

Conclusions: hope is not a plan

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