1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Sports Development
Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice.
Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and defines the core functions of sports development, exploring the interface between sports development and cognate fields such as education, coaching, community welfare and policy. The book presents important new studies of sports development around the world, illustrating the breadth of practice within and between countries, and examines the most important issues facing practitioners within sports development today, from child protection to partnership working.
With unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the definitive guide to policy, practice and research in sports development. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals with an interest in this important and rapidly evolving discipline.
1 Introduction
Barrie Houlihan
Part 1: Influences on sport development
Introduction: The constraints of history
Barrie Houlihan
2 Sports Development in the nineteenth-century British public schools
Martin Polley
3 Jewish and Christian movements and sport
Andrew Meyer
4 Sport Development, Nations and Nationalism
Alan Bairner
5 The military and physical training
Tony Mason
Part 2: The contemporary context of sport development
Introduction: Government and civil society involvement in sport development
Barrie Houlihan
6 Volunteering and sport
Peter Donnelly and Jean Harvey
7 Sport development and social capital
Andrew Adams
8 Sport development and disability
Andy Smith and David Haycock
9 Sport and social integration
Kevin Hylton
10 The importance of culture: sport and development in the Arab World - between tradition and modernityMahfoud Amara
Part 3: Sport development and young people
Introduction: Socialisation through sport
Barrie Houlihan
11 Sport development and young people in England
Lesley Phillpots
12 The development of sport and youth in France
Jean-Luc Lhéraud, Bernard Meurgey and Patrick Bouchet
13 The development of youth sport in Sweden
Bosse Carlsson and Sussanna Hedenborg
14 Beyond the façade: Youth sport in the United States and the illusion of synergy
Matthew T. Bowers, Laurence Chalip, B. Christine Green
15 Sport development and young people in Taiwan
Tien-Chin Tan and Chin-fu Cheng
16 Sport development and young people: The role of international organisations
Roland Naul and Jan Holze
Part 4: Sport development and adult mass participation
Introduction: The neglect of adult participation
Barrie Houlihan
17 Sport and adult mass participation in England
Marc Keech
18 Sport development and adult participation in New Zealand
Shane Collins
19 Sport development and adult sport participation in Canada
Lucie Thibault
20 Sport development and adult participation in Japan
Mayumi Yaya Yamamoto
21 Sport development and adult mass participation: The role of international organisations
Ian Henry
Part 5: Development through sport
Introduction: Sport and international developemnt
Tess Kay
22 Sport in international development: Facilitating improved standards of living?
Roger Levermore
23 Development through sport? Sport in support of female empowerment in Delhi, India
Tess Kay
24 International development through sport in Zambia
Davies Banda
25 Right to Play: Sustaining development through sport
Aaron Beacom and Lorna Read
26 A postcolonial feminist approach to sport, gender and development
Lyndsay Hayhurst, Margaret McNeill and Wendy Frisby
Part 6: Sport development and elite athletes
Introduction: The irresistible priority
Barrie Houlihan
27 High performance sport policy in the UK: An outline and critique
Ian McDonald
28 Elite sport development in Denmark
Bjarne Ibsen, Jørn Hansen and Rasmus Storm
29 Sport development and elite athletes in China
Fan Hong
30 Sport development and elite athletes: The Australian experience
Bob Stewart
Part 7: Issues in the practice of sport development
Introduction: Managing complexity and fluidity
Barrie Houlihan
31 Issues in the management of voluntary sport organizations and volunteers
John Schulz , Geoff Nichols and Christopher Auld
32 Child protection and sport development
Celia Brackenridge and Hamish Telfer
33 Legal issues in sports development
James T. Gray and John O’Leary
34 Sports development officers on sports development
Daniel Bloyce and Ken Green
35 Sport development, sport coaching and domain specificity
John Lyle
36 Health behaviour change through physical activity and sport
Stuart J.H. Biddle and Charlie Foster
37 Partnership working and sport development
Iain Lindsey
38 Funding and sustaining sport development
Ian Jones
39 Market segmentation and the role of the public sector in sports development
Paul Downward
Part 8: Assessing the impact of sport development
Introduction: The problems of policy evaluation
Barrie Houlihan
40 Sport development’s contribution to social policy objectives: The difficult relationship between politics and evidence
Fred Coalter
41 Elite for all, all for elite? An assessment of the impact of sport development on elite sport success
Veerle De Bosscher and Maarten van Bottenburg
42 An assessment of the impact of sport development on sport participation
Maarten Van Bottenburg and Veerle De Bosscher
Biography
Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.
Mick Green was a Senior Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.
'Houlihan and Green (both Loughborough Univ., UK) have done a remarkable job of editing this comprehensive, exhaustive book on sports development around the world. Governments and organizing bodies must contend with two competing realities--sports for all and talent identification/ development--and this ubiquitous tension is skillfully addressed throughout the volume.This will be a valuable resource for all students of physical education and sport, providing them with a worldview of how sport is used as a tool in development and in producing world-class athletes. And specialists will find this handbook to be a valuable starting point in this emerging field of study.' – J. A. McClung, Berea College
