Leader: Dr Z Pawlaczek

Offered

Not offered in 2008

Synopsis

In this unit students will independently identify a contemporary sport, PE, or outdoor recreation issue in society that has arisen as a problem from an experiential pool. Furthermore, students will be introduced to ideas about social issues as phenomena and how the process of locating them within a paradigm, as the starting process for developing knowledge, is an essential stage for understanding the relevance of research; and for proposing research projects in the field of sport, PE and outdoor recreation.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. demonstrate a critical ability to use personal experiences as signifiers of social issues in sport, PE and outdoor recreation;
2. frame and analyse social issues as future challenges in sport, PE and outdoor recreation;
3. question the relevance of different paradigms and apply judgments on the importance of paradigmatic traditions in relation to phenomena; and
4. distinguish critical differences in paradigms for the purpose of utilising knowledge from a field of study that is multi- and inter-disciplinary.

Assessment

Assessment task 1 (2,000 words): 50%
Assessment task 2 (equivalent 2,000 words): 50%
required attendance at tutorials/practicals/laboratories.

Contact hours

3 contact hours per week, 9 hours private study including readings, completions of set tasks and self-directed learning