Transcript Needs analysis of disability football inclusion within Lincoln

Needs analysis of disability
football inclusion within Lincoln
A Presentation by Ben Mills and Cory Burton
Overview of Rational
National
• FA
• Disability Strategy
Regional
• Disability Football Development Fund
• G.O.A.L
Local
• Our Project
• Research and provide feedback
‘…understanding and explaining are one’
-(Bourdieu, 1999: 613)
Disability Football strategy. 20102012.
National
 FA Football Development Programme – Disability
Football Strategy (2004-2006) provided the first step
in integrating disability football into the ‘mainstream’
football family.
‘The principle aims of The FA are to maximise
participation through increased playing opportunities,
increasing the quality for all…’
–(Disability Strategy, 2010)
Area of Focus
GOAL 3:
‘Nations Favourite game’
3.1 grow the game for all
3.2 raise standards for a safer, better Quality experience
3.3 increase awareness and Positive Perception of the game
3.4 improve facilities through effective Partnerships
(-Disability Strategy, 2010)
Disability Football Development Fund (DFDF)
(Leanne Woodhead)
Regional
What is DFDF?
 National project that has seen that 28 CFA’s receives
£75,000 from the FA to deliver disability football to
individuals 12+.
 Lincolnshire FA’s project gets £111,000 over 3 years.
 Engages individuals that have never played football
and that haven't got access
 They aim to achieve– 1250 unique users (250 of which
are female), with a throughout of 25,000 and a team
generation of 24 NEW teams (in 3 years).
Target Areas;
Local
•Lincoln
•Scunthorpe
•Grimsby
•Skegness
•Spilsby
•Louth
•Horncastle
•Grantham
•Gainsborough
•Stamford
Lincoln
St Christopher's
School
Power Chair
Football
‘during the program development the client or recipient population should be carefully
selected’
-(Rossi, et, al, 1989: 68)
St Christopher's Special School
 We were unaware of what sort of involvement in
football they had
 Some Students actively participated
 Some Students were uninterested
 Gave a mixture of responses
Lincoln Power Chair Football
Leanne's aims and objectives
Needs Analysis
 Needs analysis of care homes/ community
centres/groups/3rd sector organisations.
 Do they want football?
 What format do they want football? i.e. League structure,
flexible, just play.
 Do they have facilities or would they require the hiring of
some?
 How many would be interested in football? And would
they do it for 20 weeks?
Critical Success Factors
Macro
•To provide the
Lincolnshire FA
with a sense of
the current
attitudes of the
disabled as a
whole
Meso
•Successfully
understand the
attitudes the
disabled have
towards
football
participation
within Lincoln
Micro
•To ensure the
data collection
used
specifically
targets the
areas needed
for
investigation
and to
potentially
raise
Lack of Definition
“There is a common misconception that disabled people are
only those with mobility difficulties or sensory impairments,
such as deafness or blindness. In reality, people with a very
wide range of impairments and chronic or recurring health
conditions can be disabled. For example people with mental
health problems, asthma, diabetes or epilepsy might be
disabled. The failure to appreciate the diversity of disabled
people means that not all of them benefit from policies.”
(Disability Task Force on Civil Rights of Disabled People, 1999)
Logic Model
Context
Input
•Society tends
to focus on one
particular
disability and
creates a sense
of negative hat
is picked up by
and instilled
with the
disabled.
•Pre existing
social
structures,
medical model
and social that
exclude the
disabled from
perhaps
participating
sport.
Step 1:
Identify the
Issue
•Funding for
transport?
•Consent form?
(Do we create
it?)
•Designate
locations for
data collection
•Ethic Form
•Gantt chart
•Protocol
•Data collection
method subject
to disability
Output
•Enable us to
get there
•We will be
liable to
interview them
•Faster data
collection
•Establishes
considerations
made
•Organised
activities
•Outlines our
project
•Reinforces
context
statements
and gains richer
data
Step 3 to 6:
Analysis of project intervention
Outcomes
•Able to
establish
control and
organisation of
the project
•Ensures that
data is
collected
precisely
related to the
questions
raised from the
context.
Impact
•Able to
discover
perceptions of
the disabled
within Lincoln
towards sport
participation
and more
specifically
participation in
football.
Step 2:
Articulate
anticipated
impacts
‘One should always, so to speak, begin the investigation with the forest in order to
understand the trees, not vice versa’
-Bourdieu, (1999)
Methodology: Pilot Study
Methods Adopted:
Structured approach
• Pro – Covered a great deal of content
• Con – Short answers
Unstructured approach
• Pro – A much more relaxed atmosphere was created
• Con – Mentally challenged went off task
Semi Structured approach
• Pro – Balance between keeping on task and freedom to expand
• Con – Difficult to expand on certain topics
Methodology: Data Collection
Semi-Structured – St Christopher's School
School Level
• Access to the disabled youth population
• Current provision of football within special schools
Relaxed Atmosphere
Methodology: Data Collection Cont.
Structured Emails – Lincoln Powerchair football
Unable to meet for interviews
• Failure to replace broken equipment
• Relocation of training venue
Data Analysis
Thematic Coding
(Gibson, 2006)
Findings: Participation Group
St Christopher’s 11-16 yrs P.E
Interest origins
Hindering Factors
A connection with a current interest
at a young age
Previous bad experiences
Actively seeking opportunities to
participate in football
Lack of confidence to try something
they know little about
Working as a team
A lack of transportation to play after
school
An interest among friends
Findings: Non-Participation group
Lincoln Powerchair Football
Interest origins
Hindering Factors
Encourages positive social interaction
Have to travel a long distance to play
An interest in sport/football before
they were disabled
Lack of equipment
Fitness
Little opportunities
Symbolic Interactionism
Fundamental Premises
• Meaning
• Social Interaction
• Interpretative Process
(Blumer, 1969)
How people define their experiences and give meaning to
their:
• Identities
• Behaviours
• Realities
• Social interactions
(Hewit, 2000)
Significant Findings
Interest Origins
• Working as a team
• Interacting with people that have a similar sporting interest
Hindrance Origins
• Negative experiences
• Lack of opportunities
Sustainability
needs to meet the needs of the sporting community
while contributing to the improvement of future sport
opportunities as well as improving the integrity of the
natural and social environment on which it depends
(Green and Gold, 2007)
Further Actions
Future Work
 Even though this project has identified what interests’
people to participate, it has also identified what
discourages people to not participate. Therefore, it is
these identifications in particular that needs further
study as this will help us to understand the root
causes of each specific problem and to help
determine more effective solutions.
References
Bourdieu, (1999) ‘Scattered Remarks’, European Journal of Social Theory 2(3): 334-40.
Bourdieu, (1999) The Weight of The World, CA: Standford University Press.
Rossi and Freeman (1989). Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, 2nd Edition.Thousand Oaks: Sage
Publications.
Gibson, (2009) “identifying themes, codes and hypothesis” in Gibson and
Brown, (2009).Working with Qualitative Data. London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
Hewitt, (2000). Self and society: A symbolic interactionist social psychology (8th ed.). Needham
Blumer, (1969). Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. 1st ed. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall.
Disability Rights Task Force on Civil Rights for Disabled People, (1999) From Exclusion to inclusion
London: Department for Education and Employment