Disability and Youth Sport

Hayley Fitzgerald is a Senior Lecturer in sport, leisure, and culture at Leeds Metropolitan University, England. Prior to taking this Hayley worked as a researcher at Loughborough University. She has also worked for a number of disability sport organizations in England, and has extensive experience of developing accessible research strategies.

"A pioneering collection, drawing together important contributions from those at the forefront of research, including young disabled people themselves. As a result it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners interested in the critical issues in this area", Jessica Louise Macbeth and Anthony John Maher, Sport and Society

• 1. Bringing disability into youth sport Hayley Fitzgerald 2. Disability Sport: Historical Context Karen DePauw 3. Disability and Inclusion Policy Towards Physical Education and Youth Sport Andy Smith 4. Disability, Physical Education and sport: Some Critical Observations and Questions Len Barton 5. The Voices of Students with Disabilities: Are They Informing Inclusive Physical Education Practice? Donna Goodwin 6.‘We Want to Play Football’ – Girls Experiencing Learning Disabilities and Their Footballing Experiences Annette Stride 7. Physical education as a normaliZing practice: Is there a space for disability sport? Hayley Fitzgerald and David Kirk 8. Picture this! Student co-researchers Aspley Wood School 9. The pedagogy of inclusive youth sport: working towards real solutions Pam Stevenson 10. Reflecting on Teaching, Learning and physical culture through Narrative Catherine Morrison 11. Are you a ‘Parasite’ Researcher? Researching disability and youth sport Hayley Fitzgerald 12. Future directions in youth sport and disability: development, aspirations and research Hayley Fitzgerald and Anne Jobling