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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1456908
This article is part of the Research Topic Skateboarding and Society: Intersections, Influences, and Implications View all articles

From "Safe" to "Brave" Spaces Pedagogical Practices of Exclusion to Promote Inclusion Within & Beyond Skateboarding

Provisionally accepted
Robert Petrone Robert Petrone 1*Becky Beal Becky Beal 2
  • 1 University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
  • 2 California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Through interviews with key stakeholders within skateboard organizations that explicitly attend to issues of diversity, access, and equity, this article explores pedagogical practices that undergird these organizations' programming for justice. More specifically, this article focuses on the interplay between the implementation of practices of exclusion to promote, ultimately, inclusion. In theorizing this pedagogical approach, this article discusses how notions of "brave spaces" work in tandem with ideas and practices of cultivating "safe spaces" to work toward social transformation within and beyond skateboarding.

    Keywords: Skateboard, Youth, exclusion, Inclusion - exclusion, Safe spaces, brave spaces

    Received: 29 Jun 2024; Accepted: 29 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Petrone and Beal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Robert Petrone, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

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