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Publication Date: 2024
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Reflexivity of Participants of Football for Development Project: Experiential Learning as Delivery Methodology of Global Education
International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, v16 n1 p43-57 2024
The power of sport to affect social change is widely acknowledged. However, little empirical research has explored the use of sport in engaging young people in global education. This article fills the gap by exploring the role of sport using experiential learning tools as delivery methodology for global education in the context of Central Europe (Czechia). The study focuses on the experiential learning process of the study participants, a mixed intercultural team of Czech and Kenyan youth ambassadors participating in a Football for Development project with the aim of engendering cultural understanding, respecting diversity as positive and valuing differences as beneficial to society. The study benefited from a newly developed non-conventional data collection tool enhancing the research methodology and allowing for the facilitation of the participants' ability to discover and process the experience-related learning through reflexivity. By showing the changes in knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, our findings indicate how the sport for development programme contributes to creating a semi-conscious learning environment for global education.
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Global Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Cultural Awareness, Diversity, Cultural Differences, Data Collection, Research Methodology, Reflection, Diaries, Alternative Assessment, World Problems, Consciousness Raising, Student Athletes, Skill Development
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Czech Republic; Kenya
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