| Description |
viii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge online studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games series |
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Routledge online studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games series
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| Contents |
Introduction / Brett Smith -- Interrogating disability: the (de)composition of a recovering Paralympian / Dannielle Peers -- See the sport, not the disability: exploring the Paralympic paradox / D.E.J. Purdue and P.D. Howe -- The role of coaches of wheelchair rugby in the development of athletes with spinal cord injury / Holly Tawse, Gordon A. Bl.Bloom, Catherine M. Sabiston and Greg Reid -- Coaches of athletes with physical disability: a look at their learning experiences / Sarah McMaster, Diane Culver and Penny Werthner -- Disability sport is going back to its roots: rehabilitation of military personnel receiving sudden traumatic disabilities in the twenty-first century / Ian Brittain and Sarah Green -- Balancing safety and autonomy: structural and social barriers affecting the exercise participation of women with disabilities in community recreation and fitness facilities / D.E. Rolfe, K. Yoshida, R. Renwick and C. Bailey -- Transcending 'Hoop Dreams': toward a consideration of corporeality, crossroads and intersections, and discursive possibilities in disability and theory / Fiona J. Moola and Moss E. Norman |
| Summary |
Academic research on the Paralympics and disability sport is growing. University courses, governing bodies, and sporting organizations are also witnessing a rise of interest in disabled sport. This book is therefore timely and of importance. Written by leading scholars, it addresses a variety of topics in relation to the Paralympics and disability sport. These include: the sociology of Paralympic sport; sport coaching at recreational and elite level; sport history and exercise rehabilitation; exercise participation; and future directions for disability sport research. Throughout the book, disability sport is both celebrated and critically examined. Critical questions are raised, and practical suggestions offered, about being a Paralympian, coaching athletes with a disability, and exercise as a form of rehabilitation. Empirical evidence is drawn from different people and various sports. These range from autoethnographic stories from a former Paralympian, to interviews with disability sport administrators, to observations of and interviews with coaches of athletes in the sports of adapted water skiing, para-swimming, and wheelchair basketball, rugby and tennis. The book will be of interest to sociologists of sport, sport coaches, sport and exercise psychologists, disability scholars, qualitative researchers, and disability sporting organizations |
| Notes |
"This book is reproduction of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, Vol. 4, issue 2"-- page iv |
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Brett Smith works in the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport within the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences at Loughborough University. His research interests include the psycho-social dimensions of disability and wellbeing, and narrative inquiry. He is editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health |
| SUBJECT |
Paralympic Games. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78064382
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| Subject |
Sports for people with disabilities.
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| Author |
Smith, Brett (Brett M.), editor of compilation
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| ISBN |
9780415826853 (hbk.) |
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0415826853 (hbk.) |
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