BPS 2011 Re-View3 November 2011

Content

Sport governance perspective(Cycling, Canoeing, Orienteering, Paralympics)

Sport business perspective(Sportsmans Warehouse)

Review of Australian sport(Crawford and the Government’s response)

Individual participation in sport(Leigh’s presentation on Adventure Sport)

Politics in sport(Keith’s discussion of the 2008 Olympics)

Sport in Community Development(Keith’s presentation on uniting and dividing communities)

Learning Objectives

Explain the major catalysts responsible for the commodification of Australian sport.

Identify the similarities and differences between the commercialisation of Australian sport and international sport.

Discuss the ways in which sport and politics intersect.

Contribute to public debates about the politics of sport in modern societies.

Communicate - express, present, listen, respond and create.

Develop your information literacy – locate, identify, collate, analyse, evaluate, interpret and present.

Engage in problem solving.

CommodificationThe process by which something which does not have an economic value is assigned a value.

Wikipedia Link

Commodification in practice

(raise customer awareness, strengthen brand, add value, create revenue streams)

Politics

Directing and administrating states or other political units (in the context of party competition).

Allison (Link)

The essential characteristics of political life can be found in any relationship.

Allison (Link)

To say that an area of activity, like sport, the arts, or family life is not part of politics, or is ‘nothing to do with politics’, is to make a particular kind of political point about it, principally that it is not to be discussed on whatever is currently regarded as the political agenda. Keeping matters off the political agenda can, of course, be a very effective way of dealing with them in one's own interests.

Allison (Link)

Consciousness, Reflection, Action

Exam

An open book exam ...

to test your ability to find, understand, interpret and apply knowledge.

40 minutes to respond to 10 questions.

Questions will be based on the seminars and presentations made during the unit.

Practice Question

Can you provide two urls for this presentation to share with a colleague?

Photo Credits

Swimming exams at Newcastle Ocean Baths 11 December 1953

IMG_6281

Ladies’ toboggan race c 1900

Kipkemei Arap Lagat

Sad but true