Publication of Volume 3, Issue 5
The Journal of Sport for Development (JSFD) is pleased to announce the publication of its fifth Issue, a Special Issue entitled Disability Sport: Changing Lives, Changing Perceptions. Guest editors include: Dr. Ian Brittain and Eli A. Wolff.
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JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. JSFD is the first peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to exclusively publishing research from the field of Sport for Development.
Issue 5 Articles
- Brittain and Wolff. Disability Sport: Changing Lives, Changing Perceptions (Editorial).
- Lopes. Adapted Surfing as a Tool to Promote Inclusion and Rising Disability Awareness in Portugal.
- Cottingham, Blais, Gearity, Bogle, Zapalac. A Qualitative Examination of Latin American Wheelchair Sport Practitioners’ Marketing Practices.
- Inoue and Forneris. The role of Special Olympics in promoting social inclusion: An examination of stakeholder perceptions.
- Forber-Pratt. Paralympic Sport as a Vehicle for Social Change in Bermuda and Ghana.
- Mataruna, Range, Guimaraes, Melo. Rio 2016 and disability – an analysis on the Sport-For-Development discourse and the legacies for disabled people.
- Smith, Wedgwood, Llewellyn, Shuttleworth. Sport in the Lives of Young People with Intellectual Disabilities: Negotiating Disability, Identity and Belonging.
- Beacom, Golder. Developing Disability Sport: The case for a critical pedagogy.
Thank you to the Special Issue guest editors, authors and reviewers who contributed to this issue.
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