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.
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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