Description
This module explores the way sport can be used to address social issues, some of the problems with this approach, and how these issues can be overcome, providing students with a theoretical and practical toolkit for sport development work.
Aims
The module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to design, manage and deliver sport for development projects.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module the student should be able to:
1. Critically examine sport for development projects and their role in creating, reproducing or changing social inequalities and oppression.
2. Identify and critically examine sport-based programmes for instigating social change.
3. Demonstrate the ability to create innovative interventions to address social inequalities in and through sport, exercise or physical activity programmes.
4. Develop skills to effectively create and manage sport for development projects
Indicative Content
1 Community development
Introduce a community development approach to sport delivery
2 Community Practice
Understand the community practice approach to sporting provision
3 Sport for development and peace
Explore the use of sport as a tool of international development
4 Sport, globalisation and development
Explore recent changes in societies and their implications for sport and development
5 Liberating education and critical consciousness
Understand the notion of liberating education and how it can be applied to sport development work
6 The politics of development
Explore the political nature of development work and the utitlity of social movements for development.
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Explore the political nature of development work and the utitlity of social movements for development.