Participatory Action Research (PAR) Project: Sport Programming and Youth Development

Description: The aim of the project was to use participatory action research (PAR) methodologies to investigate the potential of sport to initiate social change in the lives of marginalized youth. To investigate this subject, the project was granted access to evaluate a new youth programming initiatives being undertaken at Hart House Student Centre at the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. The project was funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Education and Innovation and headed by Dr. Simon Darnell, Director of the School for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto.

Research outputs:  

Ali, A., S. Darnell and D. Dinunzio. Hart House Youth Recreation Partnership Report.

Darnell, S., G. Yerashotis., R. Smyth., D. Eisenkraft Klein., M. Amin. R. Majeed and A. Absiye. ‘Sporting Access for Newcomer Women in Urban Toronto’. Race and Sport in Canada Conference. Windsor Ontario, September 2018.

Yerashotis, G., B. Gwilliam and S. Darnell. “Urban Youth and Outdoor Adventure Education: A New Frontier in Transformative Sport-for-development Programming” (Under review at Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health).