A Qualitative Investigation Into the Impact of the Basketball Learning Intervention Programme (BLIP) on Disengaged Secondary School Students in the United Kingdom

Year 2020, , 42 - 51, 20.06.2020

Lukas Volskis , Richard Hunt James Trevor Beale

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.730528

Abstract

This paper will evaluate the longitudinal effects
of a basketball based intervention programme that targeted ten disengaged male
secondary school students at a school in the Kent, England. The programme aimed
to improve the behaviour and academic performance of the participants through a
weekly intervention carried out by an external basketball player and coach
providing academic support, mentoring and specially designed basketball
sessions. Sports interventions have been deemed to provide a positive
short-term impact on young people. However, researchers have identified the
need for a longitudinal approach in order to examine the effects of such
interventions post involvement as supported. This study involved five former
Basketball Learning Intervention Programme (BLIP) members (with a mean age of
16.4 SD± 0.55 years) that were interviewed using semi-structured interview
approach, 12 months after completing the intervention. Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) revealed four superordinate and eleven
subordinate themes. The four supeordinate themes were; ‘baseline behaviours
pre-intervention’, ‘immediate outcomes of the BLIP’, ‘impact of the coach’ and
‘long standing transferable outcomes’. The results revealed an immediate impact
in comparison to the baseline behaviours of the participants pre-intervention.
The data suggested that one of the most effective aspects of the programme was
the positive impact of the coach on the participants. More importantly, this is
the only study to report long-term improvements amongst the participants in
terms of behaviour and academics as a result of engagement in a sports based
intervention.

Keywords

Antisocial behavior, basketball, IPA, sport as the social instrument, education

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