Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description In this module students will critically review contemporary research focusing on expertise and expert performance in sport. Students will examine competency and expertise-focused approaches to the develop of elite performance, and as a means to drive elaborative and adaptive thinking, judgment and growth. Students will learn how the study of expertise and expert performance in sport promotes an understanding of the factors that constrain human achievement, and the extent to which these may be overcome by systematic engagement in practice and training. Various theoretical frameworks for studying expertise in sport will be presented and appraised, and their application to specific sport environments and domain will be explored. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Critique the literature into professional expertise and its application to their professional context 2. Evaluate contemporary research, theory and concepts as a means to explore and critically reflect on practice in their domain 3. Critically appraise the application of cognitive skills to the development and establishment of professional practice in their domain 4. Synthesise information and translate it for practitioner and academic audiences, and prepare for dissemination using appropriate means of delivery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Expertise versus competence in performance domainsStudents will critically review contemporary research focusing on expertise and expert performance in sport. Students will examine competency and expertise-focused approaches to the develop of elite performance and as a means to drive elaborative and adaptive thinking, judgment and growth. The study of expertise and expert performance in sport promotes an understanding of the factors that constrain human achievement and the extent to which these may be overcome by systematic engagement in practice and training. Various theoretical framework for studying expertise in sport are presented and appraised and their application to specific sport environments and domain are explored.Determinants of expertiseStudents will explore current understanding of the components that combine towards achieving expertise in sport from the perspective of practitioners and performers.Knowledge base of sport practitionersAgainst a growing professionalisation within sport, students will explore the conceptual knowledge necessary for practitioners working in sport, reflecting socio-political, pedagogical, critical thinking concerns at both a general and local level | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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