Baskin: Sport Without Barriers: An Inclusive Revolution in Sport, School and Community

What happens when a sport changes its rules to truly include everyone? Baskin - a form of basketball born in Italy and now played in schools and gyms across the country - turns the traditional competitive logic on its head: it is not the person who must adapt to the rule, but the rule that bends to fit the person. A young player in a wheelchair and a non-disabled teammate play on the same team, with the same chance of scoring. This book takes the reader from theory to the gymnasium. The great frameworks of the human sciences - Bronfenbrenner's ecology of development, Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, Dewey's learning by doing, Putnam's social capital - become concrete tools for reading what happens when a class plays together. History and rules, statistical and economic data, the legal framework on inclusion and teaching methodologies all interweave in a journey that shows how sport can become a laboratory of citizenship. A practical book for teachers, educators, coaches and students of Education and Sports Sciences: because inclusion is not an abstract principle, but something built one pass at a time. Enriched with QR codes linking to videos and online resources (in Italian; use your browser's translation feature to read them in English).