Barriers And Solutions To Participation In Sport

Question 1

Disability

Answer 1

When a mental, physical or sensory impairment affects performance

Question 2

Inclusiveness

Answer 2

All people should have needs, abilities and aspirations recognised, understood and met with a supportive environment

Question 3

Integration

Answer 3

Able bodied and disabled people taking part in the same activity at the same time

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

People with disabilities participating separately with other disabled people

Question 5

Ethnic groups

Answer 5

People who have racial, religious or linguistic traits in common

Question 6

Race

Answer 6

The physical characteristics of an individual

Question 7

Racism

Answer 7

A set of beliefs or ideas based on the assumption that races have distinct hereditary characteristics that give some races an intrinsic superiority over others, it may lead to verbal or physical abuse

Question 8

Channelling

Answer 8

Ethnic minority’s may be pushed into certain sports or positions within a team based on assumptions made about them

Question 9

Stacking

Answer 9

The disportionate concentration of ethnic minorities in certain positions in a sport team, which tends to be based on the stereotype that they are more valuable for their physicality rather than decision making and communication

Question 10

Gender

Answer 10

The biological aspect of a person, either a male or female

Question 11

Sexism

Answer 11

The belief that one sex is inferior to the other