1st Edition

Disabled Children and Young People in Sport, Physical Activity and Physical Education

Edited By Anthony J. Maher, Justin A. Haegele Copyright 2025
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data gathered either with or from disabled children and young people, centring their experiences and amplifying their voices, while decentralising non-disabled voices in research about them. Much of the albeit limited research relating to disabled... Read more

Introduction: Disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education

Anthony J. Maher and Justin A. Haegele

 

1. Voice, vlogs and visibility: the experiences of young people with SEND engaging in the school games
Lesley Sharpe, Janine Coates, and Carolynne Mason

 

2. Sport, disability and (inclusive) education: critical insights and understandings from the Playdagogy programme
Rachel Sandford, Angharad Beckett, and Richard Giulianotti

 

3. ‘Everyone’s just like, they’re fine, and when in reality, are we?’ Stories about recess from children experiencing disability
Rebecca Rubuliak and Nancy L.I. Spencer

 

4. Students’ experiences of paraeducator support in inclusive physical education: helping or hindering?
Donna L. Goodwin, Brenda Rossow-Kimball, and Maureen Connolly

 

5. Yes, I have a disability. Does it prevent me from being a PE teacher? A qualitative approach from the point of view of future PE teachers and their families
David Hortigüela-Alcalá, Daniel Bores-García, Raúl Barba-Martín, and Gustavo González-Calvo

 

6. Teaching inclusive physical education for students with disabilities: reinvigorating in-service teacher education in Sri Lanka
Samantha Nanayakkara

Biography

Anthony J. Maher in Director of Research and Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

 

Justin A. Haegele is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor in the Department of Human Movement Studies and Special Education at Old Dominion University, US.