EDF3607

Social issues in sport and outdoor recreation ( 6 points, SCA Band 0, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: Dr Z Pawlaczek

Offered:
Gippsland Second semester 2006 (Day)

Synopsis: In this unit the student will independently identify and select sport and outdoor recreation issues that are related to the social domain. Students will examine the range of paradigmatic representations of contemporary social trends by constructing arguments centred on the discipline's tradition of resolving problems. These representations of sport and outdoor recreation will be selected from a range of coeval themes that includes; leisure theories; discourses on embodied experience; technology; society and globalization theories; socio-history; and cultural interpretations of wilderness.

Objectives: Upon successful completion of this unit students should have developed an understanding of the social nature of issues in sport and outdoor recreation; an awareness that social issues can be viewed from more than one perspective and that various perspectives are often contradictory/inconsistent; recognition that professional practice demands that competing perspectives be understood before there can be a reasonable resolution of different/competing interests; an ability to apply paradigmatic understandings required examining competing perspectives and being able to justify a personal/professional position they might conclude; an appreciation of how critical analyses of one social issue might be applied to a range of social issues; an appreciation of the pedagogical implications in practice of the paradigmatic representation of social issues in sport and outdoor recreation.

Assessment: Assessment 1 - (2,000 words): 50%; Assessment 2 - (equivalent 2,000 words including oral exam): 50%.

Contact Hours: 2 hours per week

Prerequisites: EDF1601 or EDF2606