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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Education |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Reassessment not allowed |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit is designed to provide the student with a detailed knowledge and practical understanding of how to manage the lifestyles of sports performers from a primarily sociological perspective. Learning Outcomes: * Understand how athletic identity impacts on the performance athlete both during the sport career and in transition; * Develop effective intervention strategies to cope with positive / negative transitions in sport; * Understand the range of support services available to the performance athlete; * Analyse the requirements / issues that impact on a performance athlete's lifestyle. Skills: Academic study skills; collecting data; assessing the reliability and validity of data, analysing data, presenting data in a format appropriate to the content and audience. Content: Factors affecting the performance and management of elite performers: * Issues surrounding athletic identity construction, confirmation and rejection * Identity foreclosure in performance sport and its consequences * Transitions during and from elite sport and the consequences of transition * Theoretical interpretations of the factors impacting on athletic identity * Sociological theories and their impact on performance athletes * Lifestyle management interventions. |
| Programme availability: |
ED30466 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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