ABSTRACT

This article reports on a European Union (EU) funded study of ‘sport-for-employability’ programmes for NEETs (not in employment, education or training) and seeks to address identified limitations of current research. Reviews of research on sport for change identify two broad limitations. Firstly, there is an absence of detailed analysis of the role that sport can play in the development of job skills training and employability. Secondly, and more generally, there is a lack of analysis of the particular conditions, processes and mechanisms under which successful implementation and delivery take place, or fail to take place, as well as those conditions which are more generalisable. The researchers sought to address such issues via ten in-depth case studies of sport-for-employability programmes in eight different EU Member States, with the aim of constructing a generalisable programme theory for such programmes. It is hoped that the findings will provide the basis for improved provision and future critical research.

摘要

本文报道了一项由欧盟（NE）资助的NEET的“体育促进就业”计划的研究（不在就业，教育或培训中），旨在解决当前研究的不足之处。体育变革研究的回顾指出了两个广泛的局限性。首先，缺乏对运动在发展职业技能培训和就业能力中所起的作用的详细分析。其次，更普遍地，缺乏对成功实施和交付或失败的特定条件，过程和机制以及更普遍的条件的分析。研究人员试图通过在八个欧盟成员国中进行的十项体育促进就业计划的深入案例研究来解决此类问题，目的是为此类程序构建可推广的程序理论。希望这些发现将为改进提供和将来的关键研究提供基础。