User:Dcole12

Introduction
I am a senior at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Majoring in Sociology and working on The Global Youth Studies project. I am interested in urban youth who are underprivileged or at risk as well as how being involved in sports can can show these youth skills that they will be able to use in the future. I plan to edit the page on Sport for social development.

Proposal
After doing some research I have decided to edit the Sport for social development page. There is much room for improvement on this page. Wikipedia has labeled this article as an orphan. This means that it has no other articles link to it, so introducing links to the page is that something that I will be doing. I also plan to elaborate on the definition on sport for social development in general, as well as look at the section on budget cuts in schools more closely. These sections are very general and could be more thoroughly developed. On the page there are also sub-headings for organizations in America as well as globally, I was thinking that I could pick one or two of these organizations from each section to in depth about. There are many good organizations out there that people should be more aware of. Also just expanding on youth in sports globally and how it may be different for youth in different countries. The page is very American focused and I want to get people thinking outside of America. There are scholarly articles out there about this topic. I have not found exactly all of the ones that I will be using for my editing. My goal is to thoroughly improve the page. I look forward to this task and hope that the new information I had to the Wikipedia community will be useful to someone.

Possible Sources
Social development through sports participation Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition. James W. Guthrie. 2003.

Interests and attitudes Gras, Fred. "The shaping of the interest in and the need for sport among children and adolescents as a condition for the development of a positive attitude to physical culture and sport". International Review of Sport Sociology. 1974.

Activities of the sport for development initiative Giulianotti, Richard. "The sport for development and peace sector: an analysis of its emergence, key institutions, and social possibilities". Brown Journal of World Affairs. Volume 18 Issue 2. 2012.

Benefits JOPERD: Journal of physical education, recreation and dance. "Maximizing the benefits of youth sport". 2013.

Disadvantaged communities Skinner, James. "Development through sport: building social capital in disadvantaged communities". 2008.