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- Specifically, sport has demonstrated efficacy in building local skills, knowledge, and resources, increasing social cohesion, facilitating structures and mechanisms for community dialog, leadership development, and encouraging civic participation.
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Due to its broad appeal, relatively low cost, and interactive nature, sport has been presented as a vehicle to support developmental objectives such as increased employability (Coalter, Theeboom, and Truyens 2020), health promotion (Hansell, Giacobbi, and Voelker 2021) or education (Moustakas 2020).
Sport has a unique power to relay important messages, foster cultural inclusion and tolerance and bridge a divided society. We expect that sport will continue to advance social reform and increase cultural acceptance by providing a common platform to bring us together in the year ahead.
Over recent years, the field of sport for development (SFD) has seen a substantial growth in the number of initiatives leveraging sport as a means of promoting social development outcomes. Despite advances in this field, the extent to which social cohesion has been researched in SFD is contested.
- Katherine Raw, Emma Sherry, Katie Rowe
- 2021
In contrast to the general tone of the extant literature suggesting that cohesion leads to performance, Benson and colleagues found evidence that performance outcomes drive perceptions of cohesion in elite youth sport teams.
Oct 23, 2023 · Sport, physical activity and social cohesion are increasingly linked within the academic literature. Indeed, studies recognise both the importance of social cohesion for promoting physical activity and the potential of sport to support social cohesion.
Description. This book takes a critical look at the role that sport can play in fostering social cohesion. It presents important conceptual and empirical material that sheds new light on what works, and what doesn’t, in terms of the use of sport as a tool of social policy.
Apr 15, 2022 · Sport teams can be cohesive in terms of how well they play together during practices and games (i.e., task cohesion) as well as how well they get along away from their sport (i.e., social cohesion). Both types of cohesion are important because they lead to better individual and team performance, and athletes are more likely to be happy with ...
