Fred Coalter

Sport for Development

What Game Are We Playing?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this comprehensive introduction to a new and exciting field within sports development, leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the successes and failures and the strengths and weaknesses of international sports development projects, programs and organizations. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished data from the most extensive monitoring and evaluation project ever undertaken with sport-for-development organisations, this is an unparalleled and fully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 sports development. Sport for Development: What game are we playing? is essential reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in sports development, sports policy or international development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780415567022
• ISBN-10: 0415567025
• Artikelnr.: 35204168

Autorenporträt

Fred Coalter is Professor of Sports Policy at Leeds Metropolitan University. Prior to this he was Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling UK (2003-2010), Director of the Centre for Leisure Research at the University of Edinburgh (1990-2003) and Director of the Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies at the then Polytechnic of North London (1986-1990).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Sport
for
development: Limited focus programmes and broad gauge problems 3. Conceptual entrepreneurs, liberation methodologists and research as a dirty word 4. Self
efficacy beliefs: not so deficient after all? 5. Self
esteem: best taken in moderation 6. Sport
for
development, peer leaders and HIV and AIDS: a method in search of a theory? 7. 'There is loads of relationships here': Developing a programme theory for sport
for
change programmes 8. Social capital: a social good or for the social good? 9. Conclusions: Hope is not a plan