SHN4012 - Policy and Practice in Sport and Physical Education

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Show an awareness of the key perspectives underpinning historical and contemporary policies in sport and physical education.
Utilise appropriate qualitative methods to systematically review policy documents.
Recognise how historical and contemporary sport and physical education policies shape sports development models in practice.
Show an awareness of the key agencies involved in developing Sport and Physical Education.

Content:

Introduction to how sport, physical activity and physical education is developed in the UK. This will be gained through an understanding of the structure for governance of sport and physical education. This facilitates awareness of the types of organisations involved in the delivery of sport and physical education in the UK and making comparisons with international examples.
Students will be provided with an overview of historical and contemporary UK sport and physical education policies. Understanding key philosophical and ideological perspectives underpinning those policies will be key topics. Students will learn how to critique various models applied to developing sport and physical education. Additionally, they will acquire skills to qualitatively analyse and present the key themes occurring in historical and contemporary policies including discourse analysis and systematic review.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Learning and teaching methods will be a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and independent learning. Lectures will cover the content where students acquire knowledge, e.g. of the policies. Seminars will be smaller groups where students will reflect on the knowledge acquired in lectures and independent learning time to engage in readings and discussions around the topics. The skills will be particularly useful in preparing the students to analyse documents. Workshops will enable the students to synthesise the knowledge and skills gained to engage in philosophical debates, presentations and peer development approaches. Students will take an active lead in the delivery of these. Students will be provided with clear guidance each week as to the expectations of them for independent learning. Tasks will be set to structure this time. Directed Activities will be set weekly..

Lectures
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 60

Seminars
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 160

Further details relating to assessment
Directed activities: these consist of weekly tasks that must be completed and submitted for inspection at timetabled sessions each week. The assessment will be assessed on a pass/fail basis with a pass requiring at least 75% of all weekly tasks to be completed successfully. A pass will lead to the full award of 10% towards the final module mark. A fail in directed activities will contribute 0% to the final mark.

All students will take part in at least one form of formative assessment in the form of oral presentation mid semester.

LOs 1-4 will be assessed via the essay wherein the student will be required to use literature to inform the points presented. Interrogation of literature, published articles and the research methods adopted in research studies will feature throughout the essay and this skill will be shaped through the weekly directed activities to help scaffold this process.

Assessment:

001 Directed Activities 10%
002 Essay 3000 words end of semester 1 90%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Aled Rowlands
Level - 4
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4S1

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