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Not just for the kicks! Football for development : stakeholder perceptions of the WhizzKids United football programme in Durban, South Africa.

dc.contributor.advisorPadayachee, Vishnu.
dc.contributor.authorAzzopardi, Julian.
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-10T15:37:26Z
dc.date.available2012-02-10T15:37:26Z
dc.date.created2010
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionThesis (M.Dev.Studies)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.en
dc.description.abstractThe study attempts to assess the capacity of football development programmes to help bring about development at the individual and societal levels. It is concerned with understanding the needs of underprivileged communities through their involvement in football for development programmes and whether such programmes are viable mechanisms to empower these communities with opportunities for a better livelihood. The study will consider whether grassroots sport programmes have any role to play in the formulation of development policy that promoted social integration, self-actualisation, improving cognitive skills, health conditions in underprivileged societies. Included within this formulation is the awareness of how to provide employment opportunities. The study will contextualise development within Amartya Sen's capabilities theory whilst looking at the role of sport as both a means to an end and as an end in itself through the lens of the work of social theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Putnam and Abraham Maslow. A literature review on some of the potential benefits and costs of sport for development programmes, including a review of international literature of similar concepts being applied around the world will provide the background for assessment of the study. Central to this study‟s research is the particular initiative taken by WhizzKids United, a locally-based organization working in the field of life-skills development through the active participation of youth from underprivileged communities in and around the city of Durban in South Africa. Further assessment will take into account the perceptions of participants and stakeholders in relation to the impact the 2010 FIFA World Cup will have on development policy in South Africa, as well as on the delivery of football for development programmes such as WhizzKids United.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/4994
dc.language.isoen_ZAen
dc.subjectFootball--Training--KwaZulu-Natal--Durban.en
dc.subjectFootball for children--KwaZulu-Natal--Durban.en
dc.subjectSports--KwaZulu-Natal--Durban.en
dc.subjectSoccer--Programmes--KwaZulu-Natal--Durban.en
dc.subjectSoccer--Psychological aspects.en
dc.subjectTheses--Development studies.en
dc.titleNot just for the kicks! Football for development : stakeholder perceptions of the WhizzKids United football programme in Durban, South Africa.en
dc.typeThesisen

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