Development Perspectives in Sports

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of social and Behavior Sciences.

Organization and Sport Management.

Teaching Methods

Method based on face-to-face exposition, and on another component based on papers analysis, problem resolutions and oral presentations of written works. 

The evaluation is composed by a written work with oral presentation about critical overview of a scientific article.

Learning Outcomes

The unit aims to deepen the knowledge about a new sports vision enhancement. More specifically, are defined as objectives the development of competences related with the origins, meanings and paradoxes; related with geography and sportive development; or related with leisure, tourism and sport.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[i] Emergency of sportive development management.

[ii] Models of sportive development.

[iii] Public policies of sportive development.

[iv] Sport as agent of personal and social change.

[v] Sportive mega events and sports development.

[vi] Juveniles cultures and sports development.

[vii] Geography and sports development: the role of places and spaces.

[viii] Implementation and management of sports facilities.

[ix] Traditional sport events and the emergence of contemporary niches.

[x] Sport, tourism, and local development.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raul Agostinho Simões Martins

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Written work + oral presentation: 100.0%

Bibliography

Pires, G. (2007). Agôn Gestão do Desporto, O Jogo de Zeus. Lisboa: Porto Editora.

Horne, J. e W. Manzenreiter (eds.) (2006).Sports Mega-Events. Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Giulianotti, R. (2005).Sport. A critical sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Horne, J. (2006).Sport in Consumer Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Maguire, J. (2002). "Sport and Globalization", in J. Coakley & E. Dunning (eds.), Handbook of Sports Studies. London: Sage (pp. 356-369).