 Sport management, gender and the ‘bigger picture’Barbara Humberstone Sport Management Review, 2009, vol. 12, issue 4, 255-262 Abstract: This paper focuses mainly on a the author's current experience of Higher Education and of a module concerned with gender, difference, sport and leisure made available to students studying for sport and leisure management degrees. It reviews the changed nature of the curriculum in the shifting socio-economic climate, suggesting that the neo-liberal1 turn influencing Higher Education in UK is reinforcing an organisational (university) culture which is counter productive to fostering critical gender and race awareness in both staff and students within restructured sport management programs. The approach I adopt in writing this paper is partly auto/ethnographic and as such, on occasion, it looks at the previous research and current experiences through the eyes and emotions of a senior woman academic located within a changing ‘new’ university culture. Auto/ethnography as research approach and autobiography as learning medium are considered. Like this abstract, I move in and out of centring myself in the text whilst interweaving writing in a more neutral ‘academic’ form. Date: 2009 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:12:y:2009:i:4:p:255-262 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2009.03.004 Access Statistics for this article Sport Management Review is currently edited by Sheranne Fairley More articles in Sport Management Review from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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