Product Description: Sport Development is a vibrant, wide-ranging field, full of lively debate around such central questions as: what Sport Development is; why it is desirable; who the stakeholders should be and how they should be involved; how sport should be organised and managed; who should participate and at what level; and what constitutes success...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays explores a number of issues, primarily concerned with value, which might arise from the study and practice of sport. Although predominantly sociological, the text emphasizes the diversity possible within both approaches or methodologies and topics within legitimate studies of sport: thus, some chapters should be seen as philosophy, others as politics, yet others as policy studies...read more