Using feature films in the teaching and assessment of sport psychology

Abstract

Whilst the use of feature films in teaching has received wide attention and is used successfully as a pedagogical tool in a variety of disciplines (e.g. psychiatry, social work, mainstream psychology and medicine) there are no examples of how it may be used by lecturers as a tool or medium for teaching applied sport psychology. The present paper explores the benefits of using feature films in teaching and describes a personal journey of how film clips were integrated into the curricula of a Level 6 applied sport psychology module.