Joshua

This case is not one of a young man moving from exclusion – based upon a physical disability – to inclusion, although at first reading it may seem that way. Rather, participation in physical activity for all children and young people should be understood as complex, messy and ever-changing (Flintoff and Fitzgerald 2012). As has been suggested elsewhere:

Exclusion and inclusion discourses of sport are not binary (p. 9) … (and) need to take account of the shifting positions of children and young people; that they as individual or members of a (problem) group may move fluidly across the sporting landscape and so sedimented readings of their position should be avoided.