Disability and Youth Sport (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415423538 ISBN 13: 9780415423533

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Disability and Youth Sport further challenges thinking and stimulates debate around issues such as: inclusion policy towards physical education and youth sport, researching disability and youth sport, and constructions of disability through youth sport. Drawing on a broad range of literature, a socially critical dialogue is developed where the voices of young disabled people are central.

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Review:

"A pioneering collection, drawing together important contributions from those at the forefront of research, including young disabled people themselves. As a result it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners interested in the critical issues in this area", Jessica Louise Macbeth and Anthony John Maher, Sport and Society

Synopsis:

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability? Has youth sport been challenged in anyway? Have alternative views of sport for disabled people been presented? Examining some of the latest research, this book considers the relationship between sport and disability by exploring a range of questions such as these. "Disability and Youth Sport" further challenges current thinking and therefore serves to stimulate progressive debate in this area. Drawing on a breadth of literature from sports pedagogy, sociology of sport, disability studies, inclusive education, and adapted physical activity, a socially critical dialog is developed where the voices of young disabled people are central. Topics covered include: researching disability and youth sport; inclusion policy towards physical education and youth sport constructions of disability through youth sport; the voices of young disabled people; and, the historical context of disability sport.

With its comprehensive coverage and expert contributors from around the globe, this book is an ideal text for students at all levels with an interest in youth sport, disability studies, or sport policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415423538
• ISBN 13: 9780415423533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Fitzgerald Hayley