Physical Education, Sport and Activity BA (Hons) top-up

30 credits

In this module students will develop the skills needed to lead PESA in their setting. Students will have the opportunity to focus on an area of practice, which could include supporting the professional development of a colleague or developing an aspect of the curriculum. As the Capstone Project for the course it offers students an opportunity for in depth study in their field of work. The module is intended to offer a synopsis of each students' learning journey to date by offering an opportunity to draw upon and apply their learning to impact on either staff or curriculum development.

Students will have the opportunity to explore theory and research on change management and leadership. This will support their career progression by engaging with issues in and around managing change. Students will draw from a range of sectors and fields including business and psychology. This will be accompanied with an in depth look at a range of work skills such as project management and action planning.

The module will explore theories and research around professional development and mentoring. Likewise, different approaches to developing a curriculum will be critically examined in relation to relevant and recent literature.

As a Capstone Project, the module is completed over the course of the year. The module is introduced at the start of the year and then revisited at intervals throughout the year.

30 credits

The PESA Enterprise and Business module offers students an opportunity to explore PESA from a commercial perspective. This is done for two reasons; education can learn lessons from commerce about customer care and the customer experience. This can support the universal goal of PESA; ensuring that more children and young people develop a physical activity habit. Secondly, the course acknowledges that the PESA landscape is highly commercialised and we want our students to be able to operate effectively in such a landscape. We are also aware that many students are either currently or may aspire to be, involved in commercial operations such as holiday camps providers or soccer schools.

In this module students will consider commercial opportunities in the field, look in depth at small, medium and large operators and examine possible tensions that may exist between the goals of commercial organisations and personal values and philosophies. During the module students will analyse fundamental aspects of managing a business to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to run their own commercial entity if they so wish.

30 credits

During this module students will look in depth at the policy landscape impacting on youth sport in all its forms in the UK. Students will examine the role of key publicly funded and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who operate in and shape the sector. Students will examine the infrastructure to support competitive youth sport. They will further consider the pathways for children and young people to progress into high level, ‘elite' sport, as well as ‘sport for good'. Pathways in and through elite sport will be critically reviewed. For example students will be questioned as to the impact this type of sports experience might have on young people's physical, social and psychological development as well as the impact it might have on the young athlete's family. To ensure understanding of sport for good, students will look in detail at a range of organisations that use sport to support positive social outcomes. Finally, students will reflect on their own experiences and examine literature which explores the impact of performance sport on the family unit. To arrive at a deeper understanding of how PESA is used, students will critically review the common assumptions made about sport and its relationship with everyday life and attempt to trace these assumptions to their ideological roots.

30 credits

The International Perspectives module is designed to allow students to develop a global outlook. It is an important area of study for a number of reasons; employability - sport and education, like all sectors is becoming increasingly borderless. Many UK teachers and coaches work in different countries around the world. This module gives students a head start by having the opportunity to examine the key issues with working in different countries, and will look at a range of approaches and philosophies that are prevalent. Students will develop greater understanding and empathy with different traditions found within PESA. PESA will therefore be used as a tool for understanding varying cultural manifestations of world philosophies. Similarity will be explored as much as cultural variance.

This module allows for students to build on the academic skills in particular developing criticality. To support this, the formative assignment will consist of a critical reflection of a text. Students will be introduced to the process of reading beyond the words. They will be supported by way of question prompts to help them ask different questions of the written word.