SE241-5-AU-CO:
Sport Coaching Contexts and Populations
2026/27
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 5
Future
Thursday 08 October 2026
Friday 18 December 2026
15
13 August 2025
Requisites for this module
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BSC C612 Sport Coaching,
BSC C613 Sport Coaching (Including Placement Year),
BSC C615 Sport Coaching (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C616 Sport Coaching (Including Foundation Year)
This module offers in-depth insights into different sport coaching contexts (e.g., community sport coaching, disability and para-sport). The module explores the characteristics that define various coaching contexts, including key organisational differences (e.g., goals, objectives) and nuanced coaching approaches. Through engaging with social, psychological and cultural perspectives, as well as accounts from coaches and athletes, students will examine the underpinning complexity and working conditions of different coaching contexts, and the myriads of task demands placed on practitioners. Over the course of the module, students will develop a critical attitude towards considering ideas of social relationships and effective coaching practice in respective contexts, as well as the intersecting pressures, challenges, expectations, dilemmas and opportunities that feature in each. Students will become more robust and conscious coaching practitioners through the application and critical discussion of adaptive and appropriate context-specific coaching practice(s).
The aims of this module are:
- To develop students’ understandings of the characteristics, conditions and realities of different sport coaching contexts.
- To critically consider contextually appropriate coaching practice(s).
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Identify and explain different coaching contexts.
- Demonstrate knowledge of specific issues, problems and considerations relating to specific contexts.
- Apply concepts to context-specific coaching problems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the limits of context-specific coaching practices.
Indicative syllabus content:
- Community sport
- Disability and para-sport
- Elite Sport (non-disabled)
- Semi-professional sport
- Elite youth development
- Recreational and voluntary
- Physical education and school sport
This module will be delivered via:
- One 2-hour seminar per week.
- One 2-hour practicum per week.
All resources will be made available prior to scheduled classes. A variety of learning resources (e.g., e-books, podcasts, videos) will be available to students to cater for different learning needs. Students are expected to undertake weekly reading before classes and be prepared to engage in discussion. All sessions, bar practicums, will be accessible via Listen Again. Taught content, resources and practicum sessions will reflect the diversity of the student cohort and populations within wider society.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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No
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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