Overcoming the limiting realities creatively: Sport methodology in youth Work for inclusion

Overcoming the limiting realities creatively: Sport methodology in youth Work for inclusion

Project Overview

Project: Overcoming the limiting realities creatively: Sport methodology in youth work for inclusion

Duration: 01.03.2020 – 30.11.2021

Reference Nr. 2019-3-DE04-KA205-018829

Grant Amount: 172,206 EUR

Donor: JUGEND für Europa, German National Agency for the Erasmus+ programme

What's About

We applied for this project because in 2019 sport is an area of life in which people with disabilities arguably had less favourable experiences than their non-disabled peers and competitors. Typical barriers for people with disabilities to participate in sport include lacked of awareness on the part of people without disabilities as to how to involve them in teams adequately; lack of opportunities and programmes for training and competition; too few accessible facilities due to physical barriers.

The unique ability of sports to transcend linguistic, cultural and social barriers makes it an excellent platform for strategies of inclusion and adaptation. Through youth sport work and sports, persons without disabilities interact with persons with disabilities in a positive context forcing them to reshape assumptions about what can and cannot do.

NFE educators and youth workers/leaders working with this target group often had little or no experience in using sport as an educational tool. Many didn’t not know how to maximise the potential of sport as a method within their regular youth work, despite of the fact that sport activities can be considered one of the most valuable NFE experiences for children and youngsters.

Partners:

YOUTH POWER GERMANY e.V (DE)

UDRUGA ZA UNAPRJEDENJE SUVREMENIH ZIVOTNIH VJESTINA OSTVARENJE (HR)

KOSARKASKI KLUB “VIRTUS BASKET” (RS) ,

Fondazione Don Giovanni Zanandrea Onlus (IT)

AKTIVNI MLADI U SRECNOJ EVROPI UDRUZENJE (RS)

Wizard, obrt za savjetovanje (HR)

Our project placed the above-mentioned needs and EU Guidelines/policies into action by developing newcurricula and methods for empowering both youth (work) organisations, as well as the sport organisations toincrease their capacity building and human resources for quality envisioning and promoting the physical activity events (youth sport work and sport events) that thus contribute to increasing participation in quality sports by more youngsters, and especially by children and youngsters with disabilities.

Objectives:

– Brought positive and long-lasting effects on participating and indirectly on non-participating organisations byenhancing knowledge management with new innovative youth work and sport resources and trainingmodels/curricula in order to provide quality youth sport work programmes for inclusion of youngsters with different abilities in our communities.

– Supported youth workers and sport trainers in acquiring and developing key competences as youth trainers in the field of using sport methodology in youth work.

– Engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of existing and newly produced products andattract more different abilities’ youngsters.

The Objectives

Project RESULT

We developed Guideline, Curriculum and Toolkit that are originally wrote in English and in the end translated in Croatian, German, Italian and Serbian by our partner staff as well youth workers. We implemented LTTA in Zagreb Croatia. In the end we had 3 national conferences (IT; HR; RS) and one international conference in Berlin , Germany.

→ Access our resource centre to read/download the Material developed within this project

Von der Europäischen Union finanziert. Die geäußerten Ansichten und Meinungen entsprechen jedoch ausschließlich denen des Autors bzw. der Autoren und spiegeln nicht zwingend die der Europäischen Union oder der Europäischen Exekutivagentur für Bildung und Kultur (EACEA) wider. Weder die Europäische Union noch die EACEA können dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden.

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CURRICULUM: “Training youth workers and sport trainers in using sport methodology for inclusion and interaction of different abilities’ youngsters”

CURRICULUM: “Training youth workers and sport trainers in using sport methodology for inclusion and interaction of different abilities’ youngsters”

Description

The curriculum “Training youth workers and sport trainers in using sport methodology for inclusion and interaction of different abilities’ youngsters” is an innovative resource for youth trainers and sport coordinators with the purpose to educate, support and mentor youth workers and sport trainers in using sport methodology in youth work with mainstream youngsters and the ones with disabilities, for inclusion and interaction of theirs in their community. The content of the curriculum consists of introductory parts, training programme table with division of sessions for each working day including morning and afternoon sessions’ division.

Every presented developed session provides a thorough description of the background related with the topic, the aim and set of objectives of the session, methodology and methods, and detailed session flow with measured approximate duration. The structure of each session includes potential recommendations, further resources for reading and materials needed for the implementation. That is, for the purpose of providing a practical resource for the current and future youth workers and sport trainers engaged in youth sport work.

The importance of the curriculum stands in the innovative element of covering the existing need for adaptation of sport methodology through youth work, as well as the needed learning tools to support a quality education of sport trainers and youth workers for using sport methodology with different abilities’ youngsters.

This manual is available in more 4 Languages:

Project “Overcoming the limiting realities creatively: Sport methodology in youth work for inclusion” is trying to put the above-mentioned needs and EU Guidelines/policies into action by developing new curricula and methods for empowering both youth (work) organisations, as well as the sport organisations – to increase their capacity building and human resources for quality envisioning and promoting the physical activity events (youth sport work and sport events) that thus contribute to increasing participation in quality sports by more youngsters, and especially by children and youngsters with disabilities.

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GUIDEBOOK: Using NFE and sport methodology for inclusion of youngsters with disability

GUIDEBOOK: Using NFE and sport methodology for inclusion of youngsters with disability

Description

This Guidebook “Using NFE and sport methodology for inclusion of youngsters with disabilities” is made for education of youth workers and sport coaches with the aim of including youngsters with disabilities into their everyday activities using sport as a method and a tool. It serves as a basis for quality knowledge management and future capacity building of organisations which work with youth, including nongovernmental organisation, governmental institutions and sport clubs. The guidebook provides an in-depth overview of all the topics relevant to inclusion in sport – non-formal education, sport methodology, disability and recommendations formethodology.

It provides the explanation of the basic terminology which will be used throughout the text. The focus then changes to sport methodology from a general perspective. This chapter provides introduction to sports training and session planning. Inclusive space chapter offers practical advices on how to enable equal participation by adapting the space, equipment and the attitude toward inclusion. Adaptedphysical activity is proven to be highly effective when working with participants with disability, so this chaptergives a detailed overview of models, types and exercises for this methodology.

As we are aware of the benefits of physical movement, youth work and sport help develop a wide range of competences – social, lingual, cultural, etc. We further analyse aims and objectives of working with youth and we explain how sport youth work can improve different competences of its beneficiaries of different abilities.

Beschreibung

Dieses Handbuch „Nutzung von NFA und Sportmethoden zur Einbeziehung der Jugendlichen mit Behinderungen“ dient der Ausbildung der Jugendarbeiter und Sporttrainer mit dem Ziel, Jugendliche mit Behinderungen in ihre alltäglichen Aktivitäten einzubeziehen, wobei Sport als Methode und Werkzeug genutzt wird. Es dient ebenso als Grundlage für ein qualitatives Wissensmanagement und den künftigen Kapazitätsaufbau der Organisationen, die mit Jugendlichen zusammenarbeiten,einschließlich Nichtregierungsorganisationen, Regierungsinstitutionen und Sportvereinen. Der Leitfaden bietet einen detaillierten Überblick über alle für die Einbeziehung in den Sport relevanten Themen – nicht formale Bildung, Sportmethodik, Behinderung und Empfehlungen für die Methodik.

Der Anfang der Broschüre beinhaltet die Erläuterung der wesentlichen Terminologie, die im gesamten Text genutzt wird. Der Fokus wechselt dann aus allgemeiner Sicht zur Sportmethodik. Dieses Kapitel bietet eine Einleitung in das Sporttraining und die Trainingsplanung.

Das Kapitel Inklusiver Raum bietet praktische Ratschläge, wie eine gleichberechtigte Teilnahme durch Anpassung des Raums, der Ausstattung und der Einstellung zur Inklusion ermöglicht werden kann. Eine angepasste körperliche Aktivität hat sich bei der Arbeit mit behinderten Teilnehmern als äußerst erfolgreich erwiesen.

Dieses Kapitel bietet also einen detaillierten Überblick über Modelle, Typen und Übungen für diese Methodik.Da wir uns der Vorteile der körperlichen Bewegung bewusst sind, tragen Jugendarbeit und Sport dazu bei, ein breites Spektrum an Kompetenzen zu entwickeln – soziale, sprachliche, kulturelle usw. Wir analysieren die Ziele der Jugendarbeit weiter und erklären, wie sich die Jugendarbeit im Sport mit unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten verbessern kann.

Diese Broschüre beinhaltet eine Reihe praktischer Ratschläge, wie Sie mit Jugendlichen mit unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten arbeiten, wie Sie sich als Jugend-/ Sportarbeiter, Ihre Teilnehmer und Ihre Umgebung darauf vorbereiten können, Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Bedürfnissen einzubeziehen. Es bietet eine Vorlage für einen individuellen Bildungsplan und hilft bei der Erstellung des ersten Trainingsplans für sportliche Aktivitäten

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TOOLKIT: Sport methods/games – adapted for using in youth / sport work for inclusion and interaction of different abilities` youngsters

TOOLKIT: Sport methods/games – adapted for using in youth / sport work for inclusion and interaction of different abilities` youngsters

Description

This toolkit is innovative resource for youth workers and sport trainers to coach, educate, support and mentor both, mainstream youngsters and youth with disabilities, for inclusion and interaction in their community. The toolkit brings the latest information and findings in the field of sport work for inclusion of mixed abilities’ youngsters. The toolkit provides a combination of pedagogical methodology of sport activities with non-formal education ones that highlights the innovative aspect of it. Moreover, it also contains the most recent theoretical inputs and concepts, followed by recommendations and practical advices when working with different abilities’ youngsters.

Manual is divided into 2 main parts:

The first part includes theoretical inputs and concepts related to the needs of target groups (different abilities’ youngsters) and recommendations for further adapting sport disciplines/methods and/or NFE methods with including sport methodology in regular youth work activities.
The second part of the toolkit comprises of 20 sport methods/games and/or workshops and respective education support materials for organising youth/sport work for inclusion of youngsters with disabilities.

The Toolkit serves as a useful theoretical and conceptual resource for sport trainers/youth workers and other coordinators/educators when organising further education, training and mentoring of youngsters mainstream and with different abilities, and for building their competences through youth/sport work for inclusion.