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Equal Abilities: The Swedish Parasport Federation and the Inclusion Process
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. (DISLIFE)
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education. (DISLIFE)
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR). (DISLIFE)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9042-9166
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6080-173x
2021 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

At present, there is an ongoing organizational change in the Swedish Sport Confederation. Through a comprehensive inclusion process persons with disability (PWD) are leaving the Parasport Federation for mainstream sport within the Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC). The purpose of this study was to advance the knowledge about how inclusion, after the ongoing change, is received and perceived by Parasport stakeholders at different levels in a sport organization that aimed to assess the feasibility of an organizational change towards inclusive environments in the SSC. This has been done by reporting the results from a questionnaire that stakeholders within the SSC responded to. In total, the respondents amounted to 130 individuals. The results point to mainly positive expectations concerning the inclusion process, which is a part of strategy plan of the Swedish Parasport Federation. Both athletes and stakeholders seem to share a mainly optimistic view of what the change can lead to. The study is part of an extensive investigation of the organizational change of the Swedish Sports Confederation towards inclusion of PWD.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå, 2021. , p. 15
Series
CEDAR Working Papers ; 14
Keywords [en]
Disability, Sport, Parasport, Participation, Inclusion, Organization
National Category
Sociology Pedagogy
Research subject
education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-186375OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-186375DiVA, id: diva2:1581740
Part of project
Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time, Europeiska unionen – Horizon 2020
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EU, Horizon 2020, 647125Available from: 2021-07-25 Created: 2021-07-25 Last updated: 2021-07-26Bibliographically approved

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