Sociocultural issues in Professional Practice

To develop critical thinking practices related to HMNS professions including Health and Physical Education, Clinical Exercise Physiology, Exercise and Sport Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Sport Journalism and Sport Management.

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To provide conceptual understandings of how HMNS professions exist in broader social and cultural networks, and how these networks influence and shape professional practices which involve diverse clients, parents, carers, and others.

Topic: “You have been given a position as a dietitian at a diabetes clinic in a low socio-economic area of Brisbane.”

Task:

Students are to produce a 2000-word analytical essay. This essay must be fully referenced (Harvard Style, APA, Australian Government Printing Style), typed on every second line, with a list of references.

HMST2190 – ESSAY

Sociocultural issues in Professional Practice

Aim:

Topic:

Task:

You will choose one of the following prescribed professional scenarios upon which to base your essay:

Please describe how you would prepare one of the following scenarios. You may wish to consider key socio-cultural factors:

You have secured a role as an exercise physiologist working at the Rockhampton Hospital.

You are employed as an exercise physiologist to work at the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health.

You have been employed as a consultant exercise physiologist for an Aged Care Provider in urban centre.

You are employed as a sport scientist on the Australian team at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

You have secured a job as a sport scientist working with elite athletes in the United Arab Emirates.

You have been offered an opportunity to work as a sport scientist at the World Gay Games.

You have secured employment as a Physical Education teacher on Thursday Island.

You have secured employment as a Physical Education teacher at the Brisbane Islamic College.

You have been offered a job as a physical education teacher at a private all-girls school in Toowoomba.

You been an opportunity to work as coach with the All Refugee Junior Soccer Team.

You got a job at the Brisbane Courier Mail to write about women’s sport.

You have been given a position as a sport psychologist with a prominent MMA fighter.

You have been given a position as a dietitian at a diabetes clinic in a low socio-economic area of Brisbane.

You have secured a position advising the Queensland State Government about nutrition policies for young women’s lifestyles.

You have been given a role as a social media manager for high profile Australian sport team.

Requirements:

Clearly articulate your potential future profession in the opening paragraph.

Identify and discuss key sociocultural issues that professionals in this field engage with now, and in the future. This analysis should include:

- Reflection on your own principled position.
- Analysis of the context important in your scenario
  - Identify and analyse the sociocultural issues raised in your chosen scenario.
    - You may choose to focus on a single issue within your scenario, or more than one. If you choose more than one issue, your analysis should be intersectional. This means you must identify and analyse the ways that sociocultural issues intermesh in your chosen profession. For example, you might examine the intersections between gender and disability, or race and socioeconomic status.
  - Who in your scenario is affected by these issues?
    - Who has power? Who does not?
- Support your analysis of these issues with consistent, meaningful references to relevant academic literature.
  - Are there any academic theories you can use to help understand the issues you have identified?

Provide recommendations (supported by critical analysis of academic literature) about how you and other practitioners might address these issues in a professional setting.

- Does academic literature provide any guidance on addressing the sociocultural issues in your chosen scenario?
- What specific measures could implement to mitigate or lessen the effect of these sociocultural issues?
- Are there aspects of these sociocultural issues that are beyond your immediate control?
Provide critical commentary about the role of sociocultural knowledge and understanding in your chosen profession.
- If applicable, refer to professional accreditation requirements (Exercise and Sport Science Australia, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, Dieticians Association of Australia, Australian Journalists Association)

Suggested Readings:

There is a significant and established body of literature on sociocultural issues in sport, exercise and physical activity. There is also a growing body of work that specifically addresses how these sociocultural issues manifest in professional sport and physical activity spaces.

You may wish to consult the list of suggested journals provided below:

- Quest
- International Review of the Sociology of Sport
- Philosophy of Sport Journal
- Sociology of Sport Journal
- Sport in Society
- Journal of Sport and Social Issues
- Sport, Education, and Society

The following publications represent a selection of some relevant sources. Students are encouraged to use these but should also extend their reading well beyond this literature when developing their arguments.

Adair, Daryl ed. Sport, Race, and Ethnicity: Narratives of Difference and Diversity. Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology, 2011.
Armour, Kathleen ed. Pedagogical cases in physical education and youth sport. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2014.

Birrell, Susan, and Cheryl L. Cole eds. Women, Sport, and Culture. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1994.
Campbell, Alastair V. The Body in Bioethics. London, UK: Routledge, 2009.
Carrington, Ben and Ian McDonald. Race, Sport, and British Society. London, UK: Routledge, 2001.
Cashmore, Ellis. Making Sense of Sport (3rd Edition). London, UK: Routledge, 2000, pp. 189-218.

Coalter, Fred. Sport for development: What game are we playing? London, UK: Routledge, 2013.

Coveney, John, and Sue Booth eds. Critical Dietetics and Critical Nutrition Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Books, 2019.
Cunningham, George B., Janet S. Fink, and Alison Doherty eds. Routledge Handbook of Theory in Sport Management. London, UK: Routledge, 2016.
Gard, Michael and Jan Wright. The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.
Gilbourne, David and Mark B. Anderson eds. Critical Essays in Applied Sport Psychology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2011.
Hadley, Bree and Donna McDonald eds. Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media. London, UK: Routledge, 2019.

Humberstone, Barbara, Heather Prince, and Karla A. Henderson, eds. Routledge International Handbook of Outdoor Studies. London: Routledge, 2016.

Malcolm, Dominic ed. Sport Medicine and Health: The Medicalisation of Sport? London, UK: Routledge, 2017.

Mansfield, Louise, Jayne Caudwell, Belinda Wheaton, Beccy Watson eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Markula, Pirkko and Richard Pringle eds. Foucault, sport, and Exercise: Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self. London, UK: Routledge, 2009.
Mckay, Jim. No Pain, No Gain? Sport and Australian Culture. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1991, pp. 139-148.
Morgan, William J. and Klaus V. Meier eds. Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (2nd Edition). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1995, pp. 201-259.
Scrinis, Gyorgy. Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice. Columbia, NY: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Silk, Michael L., David L. Andrews, and Holly Thorpe eds. Routledge handbook of Physical Cultural Studies. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2017.
Schulenkorf, Nico and Daryl Adair. Global sport-for-development: Critical perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Schultz, Jaime. Women’s Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Tinning, Richard. Pedagogy and Human Movement: Theory, Practice, Research. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2010.
Ventresca, Matt, and Mary G. McDonald eds. Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.
Waddington, Ivan and Andy Smith eds. Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective. London, UK: Routledge, 2000.

Sociocultural issues in Professional Practice