Sports, Study, or Sleep: Understanding the Student-Athlete's College Experiences

ISBN-13: 9783030613259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 156 str.

Dinur Blum

Opis

Widoczna okładka, to zdjęcie poglądowe, a rzeczywista szata graficzna może różnić się od prezentowanej. Nie gwarantujemy zgodności okładki z prezentowanym zdjęciem.

Spis treści

1. "Why Should We Have to Go to Class if We Came Here to Play Football?" What This Book is About

2. "If I Wanted to Play, I Had to Bring Home the Grades": Interviews with Former Student Athletes

3. "Emptying the Tank": Current Student-Athletes

4. "Going into Classes Blind": Comparing Student-Athletes' Experiences

5. "Professional Sports are a Well-Paying Temporary Job": Messages from Coaches

6. "The Importance of Having a Plan B": Academic Personnel Who Work with Student-Athletes

7. Re imagining College Sports and Student Athletes

O autorze

Dinur Blum is Lecturer in Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Beyond his work on student-athletes in college, he studies the social causes of mass shootings in the US with his colleague Christian G. Jaworski. He also co-hosts the Learning Made Easier podcast with Adam G. Sanford.

Blurb

This book challenges existing literature on student-athletes and examines the obstacles student-athletes face with respect to academic achievement in college. Blum includes excerpts from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US student-athletes, coaches, academic advisors, and learning specialists to provide insights on how student-athletes define success academically, athletically, and professionally. He also identifies the challenges student-athletes face inside and outside of the classroom and how they can be helped in achieving academic success.