Tag: sport for development

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Diving into a new era: The role of an international sport event in fostering peace in a post-conflict city by Jada W. Lindblom, Eric Legg & Christine A. Vogt.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Preparing for long-term success: Sport for Development’s strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Carrie LeCrom & Tiesha Martin.

We invite you to join the authors of a recent article on this topic for a virtual session to discuss transdisciplinary research in the Sport for Development field. There will be a particular focus on surfacing barriers, brainstorming solutions, sharing ideas, and exploring possibilities as a global community. In other words, come prepared to actively engage with Sport for Development colleagues around the world!

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Exploring the Impact of Soccer Camp on Social Identity for Youth with Cerebral Palsy by Rio James, Skye Gerald Arthur-Banning, Margaret Domka.

This special issue seeks critical examinations of research, policy, and practice that highlight, describe, and challenge racism, racist practices, and racial hierarchies in the SfD field, and in doing so, move closer to improving experiences and outcomes for racial groups facing intersecting oppressions. Race and racism are conceptualized as socially constructed systems of oppression grounded in political and economic domination on the basis of phenotypical and cultural identities and backgrounds.

This special issue seeks to probe, deconstruct, and contest current sport for development (SFD) discourse related to Indigenous voices, providing a more nuanced understanding in the SFD space. Indigenous peoples are holders of unique languages, knowledge systems and beliefs, and have a special relationship with land. Indigenous peoples hold their own diverse concepts of development, based on their traditional values, visions, needs and priorities.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Examining the impact of a sport-based positive youth development program for adolescent girls of color: A mixed methods study by Carlyn Kimiecik, Samantha Bates, Dawn Anderson-Butcher.

This book will raise the voices of relevant and critical experiences carried out in a range of countries that belong to the ‘Global South’. More importantly, the book aims to highlight the practices and theories created by people who belong to the communities where these sporting experiences have been taking place in the past decades, whose critical reflections and experiences are yet to gain systematic attention in the international academic and practitioner’s communities in the English language.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CROSSFIT PARTNER WORK: STRENGTH BUILDING FOR SDP by Anne DeMartini, Wylie Belasik.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CONCEPTUALIZING PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION IN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: A RESEARCHER’S PERSPECTIVE ON PROCESSES AND TENSIONS FROM VIETNAM by Michael Dao.