Objectives and competences
Humanities
Students should critical evaluate different social praxises and their roles in the context of sports and games through history.
• Students should understand how philosophy of sport could help in an explanation of a game, play and spectacle in the context of sport.
• Students should understand ethics and aesthetics of sport.
• Students should be able to contemplate about the philosophy of sport and its implications in every day’s life
Mastering and additional learning about different sport knowings
• complementing the technique and tactics in team sports and in games with requisites to the level that enables an efficient game,
• harmoniously perform a different movement exercises in a group and express the feelings and moods accompanied by the music
Development of movement and functional capabilities
• developing basic movement capabilities (power, speed, coordination of movement, movability, precision) with different tasks and organization forms,
• developing functional capabilities (aerobic and anaerobic endurance with the use of polar heart monitoring devices and individual programs
• developing the aerobic endurance with different sports (hiking, walking, biking, jogging…)
• care for the correct body position and body formation with the selected exercises,
• determine and follow one's own movement and functional capabilities and body characteristics in a longer period and compare them with its own and the peer's values.
Pleasant experiences of sport, forming and developing the viewpoints, habits and ways of treatment
• developing persistency with different time limited aerobic activities,
• encouraging mutual cooperation, reasonable competition and accepting differences
• developing cultural relationship to the nature and recognizing the ecological problems by exercising in the nature
• understand the dilemmas of modern sport and respect the rules of fair play
• experiencing relaxing influence of exercise and understand the importance of physical burdening in a function of relaxation by choosing appropriate themes
Content (Syllabus outline)
THEORETICAL CONTENT
Themes from Philosophy of Sport
• Introduction to philosophy of sport
• History of sports
• Games, plays and competitions throu physical action
• The spirit of Olympism and multicultural relations and connections
• Ethical dillemas in contemporary sport
• Competitivity and aesthetical dimension of sport today
• Sport for all and the role of spectacle in sport
The theoretical part of choosen sport will be presented with practical aproach
Student chooses two moduls
Module 1: 30 hour
? basic movement skills,
? sport games (volleyball, basketball, football, handball,
? modern sports
Module 2: 30 hour
? basic movement skills,
? sport games with requisite ( badminton, squash, table tennis, tennis)
Module 3: 30 hour
? comprehension of one's own body – relaxation methods (yoga, pilates)
? targeted fitness
? aerobics
Module 4: 30 hour
? activities in nature ( nordic walking, jogging, run, hiking)
Module 5: 30 hour
? swimming
? skiing /cross country
? ice skating
? mountain bike
? riding
Learning and teaching methods
Following methods and forms of teaching will be used in the program:
• explanation and discussion (lecture)
• demonstration
• practice
Forms:
• frontal learning
• group learning
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding
Ability to:
• critically and philosophically examine significant issues in sport.
• cogently argue (verbal and written) for or against a variety of issues
• offer new viewpoints on competitive and/or educational practices in sport in order to ultimately improve practices in sport.
• rationalize and defend physical education as having equal value with other academic disciplines and as being integral to the general educational process.
• make sound ethical and aesthetical decisions relative in sport education and practice
• understanding the influence of sport and regular exercising on health and wellbeing
• understanding the reactions of the organism to the body efforts and the adjustment to the different forms of exercises
• understanding the preventive role of the sport by raising awareness against personal and social deviant practices
• recognize the importance of sport in tourism, economy
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes
Abilities:
• critically examine significant issues in different fields of social practices.
• cogently argue (verbally or in a written form) for or against a variety of issues
• make sound ethical and aesthetical decisions relative to different social processes and practices
Factual competences as:
? Experience connected to moving abilities as well as upgrading knowledge and experience about the latter
? Improvement of moving abilities as well as basic knowledge due to coherence and constant changes in field of sports
? Understanding the meaning of everyday exercise as factor of declining modern life risks
? Understanding the meaning of exercise planning and ability to plan one’s own exercise
? Ability to maintain the level of one’s own moving and functional capabilities, ability to master the monitoring process of the latter as well as the ability to choose suitable forms and means to improve the level of one’s own moving and functional capabilities
? Joint desire and effort to achieve mutual goal, understanding and learning to become a team player: team work, team thinking etc.
Gaining competences about one self:
? By evaluation of one’s achievements and progress
? Stabilizing and strengthening one’s self-image by further improving one’s achievements
? By developing the ability to disseminate the knowledge gained
? By improving the communication competences
? By practicing tolerance and by comparing one’s own achievements with others
Readings
• Macura, D., Hosta, M. (2003). Filozofija športa. Ljubljana: FŠ – Enajsta akademija.
• Čitanka/Reader – izbor aktualnih člankov iz filozofije, etike in estetike športa.
• Hosta, M. (2007). Etika športa. Ljubljana: FŠ.
• Kreft, L. (2011). Levi horog. Ljubljana: Založba Sophia.
• Metchnikoff, R. & Estes, S. (2002). A history and philosophy of sport and physical education: From ancient civilization to the modern world (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia. Peterbourough: Broadview Press.
Strokovna literatura iz področja zajetih športnih panog.
Professional literature of the proposed sport disciplines
Additional information on implementation and assessment Written exam
Practical exam
Student's activity in the course
