In Playing the Game, students are presented with an enriching study of a variety of classic and contemporary texts relating to recreational and professional sport. These include documentaries, non-fiction texts, poems, and feature articles.

By exploring these texts, students will cultivate a repertoire of skills, enabling them to comprehend, analyse, and assess sports-related content. Through looking at the way composers explore sports, team spirit, physical challenges and achievements, success and failure, the culture of sports, the nature of spectatorship, and the role of athletes in political activism, students will gain a deeper understanding of the ways sport functions in our society, and often mirrors social issues.

Authors: Emily Bosco and Sarah Peachman

Format: PDF download, 112 pages

ISBN: 978 1 923140 02 8