Organization and Management of School Sport

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Method of face-to-face teaching with lectures in the form of seminars, to which must be added a component of fieldwork-based learning and problem solving and presentation of solutions.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit aims to provide the student: [1] the knowledge and mastery of the conceptual model of scholarly sport; [2] knowledge and mastery of the main dimensions, namely education, training, recreation and competition; [3] the ability to use tools of analysis and decision-making support; [4] the ability to build and streamline a framework of internal and external sports activities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[1] The context of scholarly sport management - What is the sport management? Sport’s unique characteristics. Sectors of sport: specificity of scholarly sector.

[2] Managing people within the scholarly sport - Essential aspects of people management. People management in scholarly sport is special?

[3] The organizational structure of the scholarly sport - What is the organizational structure? Dimensions of organizational structure.

[4] Strategic thinking in the organization and management of scholarly sport - Principles of strategic management. Why undertake the strategic management? The process of strategic management of school sport.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raul Agostinho Simões Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation is performed based on the elaboration of a plan to boost sports school activities (80%), including oral presentation (20%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

Cunha LM (2007). Os Espaços do Desporto, Uma Gestão Para o Desenvolvimento Humano. Coimbra: Edições Almedina.

Decreto-Lei nº 95/91, de 26 de fevereiro.

Hoye R, Smith A, Nicholson M, Stewart B & Westerbeek H (2009). Sport Management, Principles and Applications (2nd Ed.), Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Ministério da Educação (2013). Programa do Desporto Escolar 2013-2017.

Mintzberg H, Ahlstrand B & Lampel J (2000). Safári de Estratégia: Um roteiro pela selva do planeamento estratégico, Porto Alegre: Bookman.