Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 75%, OT 25% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The aim of this unit is to outline how individual sporting lives and practices are inextricably related to socially defined class, race/ethnic, gender, sexual, and ability based identities and differences. Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit students should: * Be able to critically discuss the relationships between sport, coaching and the social context; * Critically reflect on their 'own sporting subjectivity'; * Engage the reading, writing and interpretive skill required to make informed, insightful and imaginative contributions to the critical analysis of sport, coaching, and, identity politics. Skills: * Read and synthesise information about a complex subject F * Organise information coherently, selecting a form and style of writing appropriate to complex subject matter T/F * The ability to apply critical reasoning through independent thought an judgement T/F/A * The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a common outcome. F. Content: The following topics will be covered: * Sport & Social Class Habitus: Socially Differentiated Life Chances and Life Experiences, The Relation Between Social Class and General Lifestyle and Health Indicators, Social Class Status and Sporting Access. * Sport, Habitus, and the Classed Body. * Race, Racism & Sport: The notion of race, and racial typologies, as essential biological classifications, The genetic commonality amongst and between human populations, Racial mythologies, binaries, and hierarchies, Biological and Cultural Racisms, Natural athleticism and the dehumanizing of the black body, Representations of Natural Black [Sporting] Physicality, Racial Transcendance and/or Racial Displacement. * Sport as an Embodied Gender Binary: The Hierarchical Gender Binary and Traditional Gender Roles and Inequalities, Physicality and Male Social Dominance, Sport and the Performance of Gender, Sport, and the Sources of Hegemonic Masculinity, and Emphasised Femininity, Stereotypically Masculine and Feminine Sporting Bodies, Disciplining and Modification of Gendered Bodies Through Sport, Sporting and Physical Challenges to Traditional Gender Identities, Sexualization and Trivialization of Female Athleticism. * Sporting Bodies, Heterosexual, and Homosexual Identities,: * (Dis)ability. |
| Programme availability: |
ED20416 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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