Sport for Development What game are we playing [Paperback]

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 playingis essential reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in sport-for-development, sports policy or international development.

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

Fred Coalteris Professor of Sports Policy at Leeds Metropolitlcï