6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021504BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
Central in this course are youth in socially vulnerable position in an urban context. The emphasis is on the meaning of leisure participation for their personal and social development. There is a specfic focus on the relation between sport and social inclusion. After all, sport is increasingly being used as a means to help achieve social objectives. A growing number of practices and interventions make use of sport to address the needs of individuals and groups that are not provided with specific solutions by the market or welfare state. Among others, sport is used to increase employability of low-educated youth, to facilitate social reintegration of detainees after their release or as a context for people with a diverse ethnic and/or social-cultural background to meet each other. For a long time most of these initiatives were under the radar. However more recently, the potential of sport to aim for broader social objectives has increasingly been recognised on different policy levels (local and international). A lot of these initiatives are targeting youth in socially vulnerable position within an urban context.
This course will (1) discuss the concept ‘social inclusion’ and ‘social vulnerability of youth’; (2) provide a critical overview of the expectations many have with regard to the relation between sport and social inclusion of youth; (3) give an analytical framework how this relation can be evaluated; (4) discuss inspiring cases both at home and abroad and (5) give example on how impact of social sport practices can be measured.
Practice:
• Developing an impact plan, pilot study including reporting on the impact of a social (sports) program in Brussels / Flanders
The assignment is worked out in group and contains the following sub-assignments:
• Part A: Developing an impact plan with a specific focus on determining a research design (choice of evaluation method, data collection techniques, indicators ...)
• Part B: Pilot study consisting of data collection including analysis and sense-making
• Part C: Reporting on the impact of a social (sports) program
The students will have to work in groups to design and use a concrete measurement plan within a selected social sport organisation.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
LEC Teamwork determines 50% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 25% of the final mark.
SELF Teamwork determines 25% of the final mark.
Within the LEC Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The assessment consists of the following assignment categories:
The group work, presentation and questions - of the teaching team and fellow students - linked to the group work on the day of the exam determine 50% of the final mark.
The evaluation by the organization concerned (based on an evaluation category with attention to product and process) has a weighting factor of 25 and thus determines 25% of the total final mark.
The evaluation of fellow students within their own workgroup (via peer assessment in canvas) has a weighting factor of 25 and thus determines 25% of the total final mark.
Additional information
The total score of the student in the work group is not necessarily the same for all group members. The individual grade depends on a correction by peer evaluation.
The student must have participated in all parts of the exam - if not, he / she will receive an "absent" on the score sheet.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Sociale Agogiek (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)