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Kropskultur (Q1+Q2) ( efterår 2011 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
• Niveau: Master's level course
• Semester/kvarter: 1st and 2nd quarter (fourth and fifth study year)
• Timer per uge: 3
• Deltagerbegrænsning: 20
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 31539

Formål

Student will be introduced to the emergent cultural approach to the theory and practice of sport psychological studies. Engaging major tenets of the cultural turn, the students will learn to work with the basic elements of theory, research and practice to develop insights into the lived culture of a particular group.

Indhold

To date, the majority of sport psychology researchers and practitioners position their work in post-positivism. As a result of this universalist approach to psychological knowledge, there has been limited analysis of the centrality of culture and cultural issues within the research and practice of sport and exercise psychology. Jerome Bruner argues that culture ‘shapes human life and the human mind', as well as ‘gives meaning to action by situating its underlying intentional states in an interpretive system [of] language and discourse modes' (1990, p. 34). The teasing out of the relationship between human psyche and sociocultural context, the way that they ‘dynamically, dialectically, and jointly make each other up'  (Shweder, 1990, p. 1), is the focal point of this course. Conceiving culture as the inherent core of human psychological functions separates cultural psychology from cross-cultural psychology, where culture is an external entity - having an effect on emotion, cognition, and behaviour. The specific interest of this course is to discuss how local cultural knowledge of problems enables researchers and practitioners to better understand the dynamics of cultural diversity in theory, research and praxis.

Faglige forudsætninger

Undergraduate course: Sport and exercise Psychology.

Underviser

Tatiana Ryba, PhD

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

3-hour seminar once a week for 14 weeks.
This course comprises a variety of teaching methods that include lectures, seminars, self-directed study, and group work. Active involvement in all aspects is an important part of the course.

Litteratur

Ryba, T. V., Schinke, R. J., & Tenenbaum, G. (2010). (Eds.) The cultural turn in sport psychology. Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.
ISBN: 978-1-935412-03-8

The course textbook will be supplemented with research articles. 

Eksamensterminer

General examination after 2nd quarter. Re-examination in August.

Læringsmål

By the end of this course students should be able to:

• Understand philosophical assumptions that underpin cultural approaches to sport psychology
• Critically evaluate the interconnections between the socio-cultural and the psychological in understanding of lived experiences in sport and physical cultural contexts
• Discuss a discursive link between body politics and sport psychology
• Understand and apply processes of cultural praxis to research problems in sport psychology
• Develop a theoretically-informed analytical approach to practical issues in sport and exercise

Bedømmelse

Individual power point presentation on a selected topic (10 min.) followed by an oral discussion (15 min).