Undergraduate - UnitEDF1171 - Sociocultural foundations of health and physical education

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Peninsula First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Dawn Penney

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to the sociocultural foundations of health and physical education. Using the sub-disciplines of history, philosophy, and sociology, students examine the role of these areas in shaping and determining contemporary practices in health and physical education. Students learn that personal and contextual factors, together with individual and group actions, shape health, wellbeing, safety and participation in physical activity. Students develop their understandings through the application and critique of historical and contemporary practices within health and physical education.

Outcomes

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

understand how sociocultural factors shape wellbeing, safety and participation in physical activity
outline historical, philosophical and sociological drivers of knowledge and practice within health and physical education
acquire, apply and critically evaluate movement skills, concepts and strategies in a variety of traditional and contemporary physical activity and health contexts
analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape understandings of, and opportunities for, health and physical activity locally, regionally and globally.

Assessment

Essay (can include individual and/or group work) (2000 words or equivalent per student, 50%)
Online journal (2000 words or equivalent, 50%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Justen O'Connor

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

2 hours per week

(b.) Additional requirements:

10 hours of independent study per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Education - Primary