IKU201 Sport and development (10 ECTS)

Course facts

Course code

IKU201

Course title

Sport and development

ECTS

10 ECTS

Semester

Fall

Course language

English

Academic responsible

Åse Strandbu

Introduction

The main goal of the course is to gain knowledge about sport, culture, and development. The knowledge gained from the course will be important for students who will travel to and work with sports organizations in southern Africa. The course covers topics such as development, gender, disability, integration, monitoring and evaluation, and project writing issues in the sport for development and peace (SDP) research field.

Learning outcomes

After completing this course, the student should be able to

work with sport and physical activity in other cultures.
understand national and international aid policies and principles of development cooperation.
demonstrate cultural understanding with a focus on the opportunities and limitations of sport and physical activity.
reflect on the different research approaches and theoretical knowledge about the sport for development and peace field.
understand how to write the final project assignment.

Learning styles and activities

The classroom teaching is weeklong, and it consists of a combination of teacher-led instruction and student-centered group work. It also includes activities such as films, quizzes, and group assignments. It is advantageous that the students have read the curriculum before the course commences.

Mandatory assignment

A regular visit to CANVAS to follow the course instructions. CANVAS performs an automatic check of the visits. It also contains all the assignments, learning materials, and presentations by teachers.
Students will deliver daily assignments and reflections on each topic.

Assessment

14-day home exam. Grading ranges from A-F.

Maximum of 4000 words.

The exam will be delivered in WISEflow and run through plagiarism control.

Core material

1 BOOK CHAPTER FROM E-BOOK (Open access):
Hikabwa, C. (2021). Football on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and fan culture from 1930s to the present. In M. Larmer, E. Guene, B. Henriet, I Peša & R. Taylor (Eds.)., Across the Copperbelt: Urban & social change in Central Africa’s borderland communities (pp. 101-121). Polity Press. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/m.-larmer-e.-guene-b.-henriet-i.-pesa-r.-taylor-eds.-across-the-copperbelt-urban
* This book is available online: Click here to download

1 DIGITALT COMPENDIUM - available through Canvas:
Strandbu, Å. (Ed.). (2022). IKU201: Sport and development: Fall 2022 [Digitalt Compendium].
** This PDF is available through Canvas.

Table of content (reference list) of the Digital Compendium, alphabetically in APA-style, 7th ed.:
Annett, E. & Matuni, S. (2013) Sport, development and Africa. In P. Andrew & V. Don V. Youth Sport (Eds.), Physical activity and play: Policy, intervention and participation (pp. 96-110). Routledge.

Banda, D. & Chipande, H. (2018). Zambia: The SDP ideal? In H. Collison, S. C. Darnell, R. Giulianotti & P. D. Howe (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport for development and peace (pp. 517-527). Routledge.

Chataika, T. & McKenzie, J. (2013). Considerations for an African childhood disability studies. In T. Curran & K. Runswick-Cole (Eds.), Disabled children’s childhood studies: Critical approaches in global context (pp. 152-163). Palgrave Macmillan.

Coalter, F. (2014). Researching sport-for-development: The need for scepticism. In A. Smith & I. Waddington (Eds.), Doing real world research in sports studies (pp. 163-178). Routledge.

Hognestad, H. K. (2018). Norway: Charity or development? In H. Collison, S. C. Darnell, R. Giulianotti & P. D. Howe (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport for development and peace (pp. 484-494). Routledge.

Holt, N. L., Deal, C. J. Pankow, K., Pynn, S. R. & Jørgensen, H. (2018). SDP and positive youth development 1. In H. Collison, S. C. Darnell, R. Giulianotti & P. D. Howe (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport for development and peace (pp. 341-351). Routledge.

Kvale, S. & Brinkman S. (2009). Interviews: Learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing (2nd ed.). SAGE.
* Pages 1-54.

Lindsey, I., Kay, T., Jeanes, R. & Banda, D. (2017). Localizing global sport for development. Manchester University Press.
* Pages 96-124.

Markula, P. & Michael, S. (2011). Qualitative research for physical culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
* Pages 81-111.

Millington, R. & Kidd, B. (2018). The history of SDP. In H. Collison, S. C. Darnell & R. Giulianotti, P. D. Howe (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport for development and peace (pp. 255-264). Routledge.

Willis, K. (2011). Theories and practices of development (2nd ed.). Routledge.
* Pages 1-35.

21 ELECTRONIC ARTICLES:

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Abel, J. R. (2012) Japan's sporting diplomacy: The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad. The International History Review, 34(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2012.626572
* This article is available online: Click here to download.

Bwalya, K. (2021) Physical education and sport for social development: Implications and prospects in the COVID-19 era. Journal of Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine, 3(2), 5-6. https://journals.unza.zm/index.html.php/medicine/article/view/532
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Craig, P. J., Barcelona, B., Aytur, S., Amato, J., & Young, S. J. (2019). Using inclusive sport for social change in Malawi, Africa. Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 53(3), 244–263. https://doi.org/10.18666/TRJ-2019-V53-I3-9720
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Darnell, S. C. & Black, D. R. (2011). Mainstreaming sport into international development studies. Third World Quarterly, 32(3), 367-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2011.573934
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Esson, J., 2015. Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers. Geoforum, 64, 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.005
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Giulianotti, R., Coalter, F., Collison, H. & Darnell, S. (2019). “Rethinking Sportland: A new research agenda for the Sport for Development and Peace sector”. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43(6), 411-437. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723519867590
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Goslin, A E. & Kluka, D. A. (2014). Women and sport leadership: Perceptions of Malawi women educated in sport business leadership. South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, 36(3), 93-108. https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC163544
* This article is available as PDF through Canvas.
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Hasselgård, A. & Straume, S. (2015). Sport for development and peace policy discourse and local practice: Norwegian Sport for Development and Peace to Zimbabwe. The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 7(1), 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2014.890635
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Höglund, K. & Sundberg, R. (2008). Reconciliation through sports? The case of South Africa. Third World Quarterly, 29(4), 805-818. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590802052920
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Kay, T. (2012). Accounting for legacy: Monitoring and evaluation in sport in development relationships. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 15(6), 888-904. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2012.708289
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Leseth, A. B. (2010). Michezo: Dance, sports and politics in Tanzania. Anthropological Notebooks, 16(2), 61-75. https://hdl.handle.net/10642/642
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Mchombo, S. (2006). Sports and development in Malawi. Soccer & Society, 7(2-3), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970600615401
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Meier, M. & Saavedra, M. (2009). Esther Phiri and the Moutawakel effect in Zambia: An analysis of the use of female role models in sport-for-development. Sport and Society, 12(9), 1158-1176. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430430903137829
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Moustakas, L.& Işık, A. A. 2020. Sport and sustainable development in Botswana: Towards policy coherence. Discover Sustainability, 1(5), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-020-00005-8
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Nye, J. S. (2012) China and soft power, South African Journal of International Affairs, 19(2), 151-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2012.706889
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Solstad, G. M., & Rhind, D. (2018). Sport, safeguarding and transactional sex: A case study of social networks in Zambian sport. Sport in Society, 21(12), 1867-1879. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1445990
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Solstad, G. M. & Strandbu, Å. (2017). Faster, higher, stronger… safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54(6), 738-752. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217742926
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Spaaij, R., Oxford, S. & Jeanes, R. (2016). Transforming communities through sport? critical pedagogy and sport for development. Sport, Education and Society, 21(4), 570-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1082127
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Strandbu, Å., Bakken, A., & Sletten, M. A. (2017). Exploring the minority–majority gap in sport participation: Different patterns for boys and girls? Sport in Society, 29(4), 606-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1389056
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Straume, S. & Steen-Johnsen, K. (2010). On the terms of the recipient? The discource and practices of the Norwegian sports development aid to Tanzania in the 1980's. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690210388454
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Sugden, J. (2008) Anyone for football for peace? The challenges of using sport in the service of co-existence in Israel. Soccer and Society, 9(3), 405-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970802009023
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1 ARTICLE - available through Canvas:
Tvedt, T. (2007). Utviklingshjelp og det nasjonale godhetsregimet. Horisont, 8(1), 60-69.
* Denne (PDF) ligger i Canvas.
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Anbefalt litteratur

SUGGESTED LITERATURE:

PARTS FROM 1 E-BOOK:
Larmer, M., Guene, E., Henriet, B., Peša, I., & Taylor, R. (Eds.). (2021). Across the Copperbelt: Urban & social change in Central Africa’s borderland communities. Polity Press. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/m.-larmer-e.-guene-b.-henriet-i.-pesa-r.-taylor-eds.-across-the-copperbelt-urban
Recommended reading is chapter 1, 2 and 3:
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1 BOOK CHAPTER FROM AN E-BOOK (Open access):
Nyirongo, R. (2014). Country report: Malawi. In M. Keim & C. De Coning (Eds.), Sport and development policy in Africa (pp. 83-90). African Sun Media.
* This book is available online: Klikk here to download.

1 BOOK-CHAPTER - available as PDFs through Canvas:
Charway, D., Banda, D. Bitugu, B. B. & Lindsey, I. (In press). A multi-stakeholder approach to sport as tool for development in Africa: Comparing Ghana and Zambia. In B. Graeff, S. Šafaříková, G. Akindes & L. C. Sambili-Gicheha (Eds.), Global south voices on sport for development and peace (Routledge Book Series) (pp. -). Routledge.
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4 ONLINE REPORTS:
Ahmad, N. (2020). Global South shapers of norms, human development and sustainability (2020 UNDP Human Development Report: Background Paper, No. 8-2020). https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/global-south-shapers-norms-human-development-and-sustainability
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Centre for Sport and Human Rights. (2022, 19 May). Child labour in sport protecting the rights of child athletes [White paper]. https://n9.cl/jvm5y
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Fasting, K., Huffman, D. & Sand, T. S. (2014). Gender, participation and leadership in sport in Southern Africa: A baseline study. Akilles. https://www.academia.edu/13170444/Gender_Participation_and_Leadership_in_Sport_in_Southern_Africa_A_baseline_study
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Fasting, K., Huffman, D., & Sand, T. S. (2015). Gender-based violence in Zambian sport: Prevalence and prevention. Akilles. https://bit.ly/3FzK4hy
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