Community Sport and Social Inclusion Enhancing Strategies for Promoting Personal Development, Health and Social Cohesion

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Synopsis

This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community sport initiatives can promote personal development, health and social cohesion, particularly for at-risk youth.
At the empirical core of the book is a multiple disciplinary study of community sport programmes in Flanders, Belgium, involving researchers from social sport sciences, social work, pedagogy and health care sciences. Drawing on this cutting-edge, realist research, the book considers the implications for sport development policy and practice around the world. The book considers community sport as a vehicle for promoting social inclusion, and the ways it allows people of all backgrounds and abilities to participate and access social and health benefits, whilst touching on key issues including monitoring and evaluation; exercise and health; youth welfare, and volunteering.
This book is a fascinating reading for any student, researcher or practitioner working in sport for development, sport management, sport coaching, social work, education, sociology or urban studies.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Author:
Marc Theeboom, Hebe Schaillée, Rudi Roose, Sara Willems, Emelien Lauwerier, Lieve Bradt
ISBN:
9781000475111
Related ISBNs:
9780367356149, 9781032125282, 9780429340635
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
186
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-11-26
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2022
Copyright by:
selection and editorial matter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Gent 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Sociology, Sports