Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector

McSweeney, Mitchell; Millington, Rob; Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.; Darnell, Simon C.

doi:10.1123/jsm.2021-0099

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“…In this way, the organization of SfD is itself always illustrative of a particular politics of development. Third, scholars have sought to understand how the SfD field or sector is organized in practice, as a burgeoning profession (Shin et al, 2020;McSweeney et al, 2021), as a series of intersecting 'facts,' (Webb and Richelieu, 2016) and/or as a loose yet intersecting and shifting amalgam of organziations and stakeholders (Svensson et al, 2020). In this sense, SfD is part of the broader sport sector but characterized in part by its organizational diversity.…”

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“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19

Norman

Sailofsky

Darnell

et al. 2023

Sociology of Sport Journal

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The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD “return to play” programming to include perspectives from racialized persons’ lived experiences. We present findings based on data collected from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Foundation’s Change the Game campaign, which explored questions of sport inequity to “build back better.” Outcomes further SFD discourses challenging (potentially) harmful structures affecting participants, including underreported effects of racialization. The study used both quantitative and qualitative analyses of survey data on youth experiences, enablers, and barriers in sport and analyzed these results within an antiracist, antioppressive, and decolonial conceptual framework.

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“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19

Norman

Sailofsky

Darnell

et al. 2023

Sociology of Sport Journal

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“…As a result, there have been numerous calls to further develop educational materials and opportunities around football3 [16,18]. Likewise, other authors in SFD or related fields have identified a need for deliberate training on methods and approaches that connect sport to values or skills such as inclusion, fair play or communication [19][20][21]. Against this background, the football3-for-all project sought to further formalise and expand the reach of football3 educational materials.…”

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“…The football3 MOOC follows in a growing but still limited line of online learning offers related to sport for development, including from the Swiss Academy for Development [24], the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) [25] and others [19,20]. However, sport remains an inherently physical, practical, and interactive area, and these features do not always easily translate to the online setting [26,27].…”

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“…The social and sustainable development goals typically associated with SFD also add another layer of complexity. Thus, while we see evidence of considerable growth in the use of digital technologies in SFD education, as well as physical education and sport more broadly [20,28], we still have comparatively little evidence about how these technologies are used, how they accommodate the practical and social nature of SFD, and whether they optimise participant learning [28]. As such, the following paper focuses specifically on the development and evaluation of user experiences in the football3 MOOC.…”

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Learning Football for Good: The Development and Evaluation of the Football3 MOOC

Moustakas

Kalina²

2022

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Over the last two decades, sport has become a recognised tool to achieve sustainable development outcomes. Known as sport for development (SFD), this approach can broadly be defined as the intentional use of sport to achieve development objectives. Many SFD organisations implement methods that seek to achieve developmental goals by reorienting sport away from its competitive aspects and encouraging participation, fair play and communication. Of these methods, football3 is arguably the most widespread. Despite its popularity, there remain challenges in its implementation. As a result, there have been numerous calls to develop educational materials and opportunities around football3. In response, the football3 for all project led to the development and launch of a freely accessible, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). However, there is still little knowledge about how online learning approaches are used in SFD, how they accommodate the practical and social nature of SFD, and whether they optimise student learning. Using findings from feedback surveys and focus group discussions, we present results from the development and evaluation of the football3 MOOC. The findings suggest a high level of satisfaction with the course, but also a need for practical tools and exchange to improve delivery on the pitch.

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“…For instance, many courses address specific sustainable development goals such as gender equality, social inclusion or environmental protection. These tools have been developed against a background of growing funding for sport-related educational materials (Moustakas 2021, McSweeney et al 2022, increased recognition of the potential for sustainability and e-learning (Otto and Becker 2019), and the overall need for distance learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic (Ebner et al 2020, Moustakas andRobrade 2022). Policymakers and researchers likewise recognise that innovative online solutions can help enhance sport's contribution to sustainable development and improve programme delivery (The Commonwealth 2021, Moustakas and Kalina 2022).…”

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E-Learning, Sport and Sustainable Development: Mapping the Field

Ruck¹,

Moustakas²

2022

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The sport for development (SFD) field has grown significantly over the last two decades, and the sector today engages development agencies, policymakers, practitioners and researchers from around the world. In parallel, there has been a significant professionalisation of the field, with numerous institutions offering training on themes and topics of relevance to the field. E-learning tools, in particular, have increasingly been developed to provide education, training, and capacity-building opportunities around sport and sustainable development. Despite this growth, e-learning in sport and sustainable development has only been partially explored. Little is known about the topics, technology and pedagogical approaches used by these courses, nor what that means for how knowledge is transferred to the field. Against this backdrop, the following paper maps out existing online courses that connect sport and sustainable development goals (SDGs), and mainly focuses on the topics and pedagogical approaches embedded in these courses. To facilitate this mapping, a structured online search and analysis of two practitioner-oriented databases was conducted. In the end, our results show that the courses engage with many of the SDGs already common in SFD and that course design is dominated by fully online self-paced courses that use written, visual, and interactive content and evaluations. To conclude, we propose ways for these tools to provide more engaging and inclusive e-learning experiences.

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Becoming an Occupation? A Research Agenda Into the Professionalization of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector

Cited by 14 publications

References 71 publications

“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19

“Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of COVID-19

Learning Football for Good: The Development and Evaluation of the Football3 MOOC

E-Learning, Sport and Sustainable Development: Mapping the Field

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