SPO070-3 Sport & Physical Activity 2 Assignment -Bed ford shire Uni

Aims and Relevance
This unit builds on your understanding of the theories and concepts that underpin a critical understanding and analysis of sport and physical activity. In this unit, these critical sociological perspectives will be used to explore how sport and social life in the 21st century are being transformed through the emergence of a complex set of social, cultural, economic, technological and environmental conditions. Through its exploration of a number of case studies this unit will extend the depth of your understanding and analyses of these processes and how critical sociological theories and concepts can provide vital insights and perspectives. The intention is to equip you with a critical understanding of contemporary sport and its potential future trajectories and challenges.
SPO070-3 Sport & Physical Activity 2 Assignment

SPO070-3 Contemporary Sociological Perspectives of Sport & Physical Activity 2 Assignment

Syllabus Content

Critical sociological theories and their application to sport and physical activity with reference to the nature of the transformative changes impacting society and their intersection with sport and physical activity including:

The changing political economy of sport;
Power relations within sport and the impact of inequality;
Sport, physical activity, health, well-being and the body;
Sport in a global-local world;
Postmodern cultural formations and their impact on identity politics, sport and physical activity;
Sport for development and peace;
Sport in a digital age – technological transformations;
Sport, the environment and sustainable lifestyles.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1.Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding of
a.Contemporary sport issues and case studies through the critical application of appropriate sport sociology theory and concepts.
2.Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
b.Identify research and assess the impact of transformative social and cultural conditions on the production and reproduction of contemporary sport and physical activity.

PSRB outcomes

Approach to learning

This unit directly draws on the semester 1 unit Contemporary Sociological Perspectives of Sport and Physical Activity 1 and will utilise the theories and concepts covered to progress your study into a wider exploration of the contemporary issues and challenges facing sport within contemporary society. This exploration will provide you with the relevant background information to undertake an agreed case study. Throughout the unit, individually and as members of small groups, you will be required to undertake a number of mini-research tasks and you will report back on these as part of the workshops. These required tasks will provide additional background information informing your professional development within sport development and will enhance the evidence you will need to draw on when completing the case-study.

Collectively these approaches to your learning will enable formative and summative feedback on your progress within the unit to be on-going and also monitor the authenticity of your work. Because of the developmental and progressive approach to teaching and learning within this unit your weekly attendance at the lectures, seminars and workshops is vital and will be closely monitored as will be the requirement to conduct independent and autonomous study to expand your knowledge of the key academic areas covered.

SPO070-3 Contemporary Sociological Perspectives of Sport & Physical Activity 2 Assignment-Bed ford shire University UK.

Learner development

This Unit particularly focuses on the development of your abilities in the following areas:
Enquiry: The unit will develop your capacity to confidently undertake self-directed forms of enquiry into the social construction of sport and physical activity in a transforming world. These will require that you develop a range of academic skills that will support how you can use a variety of research strategies (library and media based) to enhance your identification and assessment of a wide range of academic texts, policy documents, media commentaries informing sport and physical activity in its contemporary setting.

Contextual understanding

Throughout the unit but more specifically within the first half of the unit you will use a ‘close reading’ analytical approach designed to enhance how you structure your approach to the reading of sport sociology texts. These skills allied with tutor support will be used to aid your confident deconstruction of texts to enhance your conceptual and critical understanding of sport and physical education in its contemporary setting. This knowledge will be highly relevant to a career within a diverse field of sport careers. The knowledge developed will require you to be aware of a diverse array of issues relating to:
Ethical issues such as justice and equity;
Cultural diversity and its impacts on the world of sport especially in community contexts;

The development of sustainable change and programmes that have the capacity to promote enduring lifestyle change within problematic groups (e.g. lifestyle choices in respect to physical activity and diet); The social effectiveness of sport and physical activity programmes;

How current research is impacting how we understand the significance of sport within a rapidly changing world.

Collaboration:

The seminars and workshops will require you to further develop a range of skills essential to successful collaborative work and learning with both your fellow students and the academic staff on the unit. The most important element of this will occur through the development of a collaborative approach to learning that reduces and at times reverses the responsibility for learning based on traditional tutor lead approaches.

Enterprise

The unit will encourage you to recognise that our social world is being transformed in many ways. While these changes will be at times uncomfortable and challenging for our society the unit will help you understand that they also offer you a wide range of opportunities for creative social entrepreneurship within a sport or physical education setting. Graduates aspiring to work in these contexts need to be actively involved in creating new and innovative professional practices and organisations that will help the social world of the 21st century adjust to its changing social, economic, cultural and environmental realities.

Assessment summary

Assessment details
The unit assessment is a student identified case study of on the role of sport and physical activity within the context of a transforming social world (the selected topic will have to be agreed with the Unit Tutor). This case study must provide a critical sociological analysis of the identified topic/issue that is clearly grounded in one or more of the issues examined within the unit’s lecture and seminar programme. It requires a detailed and well informed conceptual and practical (i.e. based on concrete contemporary evidence) exploration of the identified issue and the processes of social change impacting the contemporary sport/physical activity/physical activity setting. The preparation of the case study is supported by group-based seminar work, individual tutorials exploring and evidencing your progress and a short seminar presentation that will provide the students on the unit the chance to critique, extend and frame the debates raised in the first semester for your fellow students. In addition, these processes will evidence your independent work and its underpinning of your identification and analysis of the identified sport or physical activity issue and its contemporary social relevance.

SPO070-3 Contemporary Sociological Perspectives of Sport & Physical Activity 2 Assignment-Bed ford shire University UK.

Threshold expectations
In order to pass Assessment 1 you will need to:
1 See the UIF Guide for permissible codes

Identify and undertake a critical case study analysis of a contemporary issue within sport or physical activity.
Provide an analytical review of sport sociology literature that represents an accurate description and informed understanding of contemporary sociological theories and concepts.
demonstrate a critical analysis and informed judgement of sport and physical activity within the specified contemporary social context.
Support the analysis through the use of correct Harvard referencing protocols and the correct use of relevant supporting academic literature and evidence.

SECTION B Recommended Reading
Once initial approval of the unit has been given, the Unit Co-ordinator may propose changes to this section to the Academic Liaison Librarian New unit. Reading list to be added once created in conjunction with subject librarian.

Equality Impact Assessment