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EDUF3023: Sport: Contemporary Educational Issues
2025 unit information
Understanding sport is central to understanding Australian culture and Australians' sense of who they are in the world. In this unit we dissect the role played by youth sport in Australian society (including school physical education and sport, organised community sport and other organised youth physical activity) from an historical, socio-cultural and practical perspective, focussing on emerging theories of youth sport and sport issues. These include how youth sport and sport in general have been constructed over time and how each relates to themes of class, gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, social identity, policy, politics, commercialism, nationalism, colonialism, disability and racism.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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42 credit points of units |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of the role educational institutions played in the fostering of physical education and school sport
- LO2. apply an understanding of the role played by various policy stakeholders, such as government and educational organisations, in the development and promotion of youth sport
- LO3. critically analyse the relationship of sport to society and the construction of identities, especially in relation to age, class, gender, ethnicity, ability and sexuality
- LO4. analyse the meanings given to sports by a range of cultural and/or population groups
- LO5. critique your own understanding of the complex relationship between sport, nationalism, politics and policy
- LO6. analyse research examining the influence of sociological factors on the way youth participate in and value participation in sport
- LO7. communicate relevant knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviours to others in written and oral forms.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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