Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme

Ioannis Costas Batlle; Ceri Brown

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Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme

Ioannis Costas Batlle, Ceri Brown

Department of Education

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This case focusses on how a charity in the United Kingdom uses youth sport programmes to develop what we understood as an aspiration to sculpt ‘good citizens’ (Foucault, 1991). Specifically, our aim was to qualitatively explore how the charity SportHelp worked with urban socioeconomically disadvantaged young people (predominantly aged 8–18) to, in the words of SportHelp's mission statement, ‘improve their lives’ and help them become ‘better individuals’. 1 More broadly, our research aimed to explore third sector involvement in the shaping of personhood as a means of achieving behavioural change among target social groups (Rose, 1989). Researching this in the context of a complex research site (a charity) entailed making a substantial number of challenging methodological decisions. Though some of these were planned in advance, many others were reactions to unexpected and spontaneous circumstances. In this chapter, we will focus on six areas: adopting a multi-perspectival stakeholder approach; drawing on multiple qualitative methods; the importance of access and flexibility; ethical considerations; reflexivity and the role of the researcher and deciding how to analyse the data. At the end of the chapter, we summarise the two core lessons we learned from conducting research in a non-formal education setting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Repositioning out-of-school learning
Subtitle of host publication	Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school
Editors	J. Rose, T. Jay, J. Goodall, L. Mazzoli-Smith, L. Todd
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pages	25-37
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78769-739-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78769-740-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-739-320211003
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2022

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Name	Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning
Publisher	Emerald Insight

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Costas Batlle, I., & Brown, C. (2022). Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme. In J. Rose, T. Jay, J. Goodall, L. Mazzoli-Smith, & L. Todd (Eds.), Repositioning out-of-school learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school (pp. 25-37). (Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-739-320211003

Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme. / Costas Batlle, Ioannis ; Brown, Ceri.
Repositioning out-of-school learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. ed. / J. Rose; T. Jay; J. Goodall; L. Mazzoli-Smith; L. Todd. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022. p. 25-37 (Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning).

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Costas Batlle, I & Brown, C 2022, Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme. in J Rose, T Jay, J Goodall, L Mazzoli-Smith & L Todd (eds), Repositioning out-of-school learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., pp. 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-739-320211003

Costas Batlle I , Brown C. Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme. In Rose J, Jay T, Goodall J, Mazzoli-Smith L, Todd L, editors, Repositioning out-of-school learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. 2022. p. 25-37. (Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning). doi: 10.1108/978-1-78769-739-320211003

Costas Batlle, Ioannis ; Brown, Ceri. / Chapter 2. Case Study 2 - Developing Citizenship and Personhood Through a Youth Sports Charity Programme. Repositioning out-of-school learning: Methodological challenges and possibilities for researching learning beyond school. editor / J. Rose ; T. Jay ; J. Goodall ; L. Mazzoli-Smith ; L. Todd. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022. pp. 25-37 (Emerald Studies in Out of School Learning).

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