| CODE | DBS5022 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Disability, Tourism, Leisure and Sports | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Disability Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will explore aspects related to Article 30 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD), that deals with access to sports and leisure, recreation and culture. Possibilities and barriers of access experiences related to Article 30 will be discussed from a Human Rights perspective. The study-unit will be centered on how such experiences grounded in cultures, contexts and time can be empowering or disabling to individuals with a range of impairments. It will also explore the activity of tourism, what it offers (or is limited in offering) to persons with disability and the concept of accessible tourism and universal design. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims at enabling students to appreciate the impact of socially constructed barriers and facilitators on the quality of life of persons with disability. Students will also learn how access can be provided to sports, leisure, culture and recreation through the concept of Universal Design and how adaptations for individual impairments can be created to allow access on an equal basis and in an inclusive manner. The study-unit also aims at providing students with an understanding of how the tourism sector functions, the industry-constructed barriers and facilitators on a tourism experience and the concept of accessible tourism. It also aims at providing students with an understanding and an appreciation of the role of supranational institutions, such as the EU, and the role of and challenges faced by national tourism authorities and/or organisations in promoting tourism to this segment and in facilitating access to tourism for persons with disability. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe socio-cultural barriers and enablers encountered by disabled persons when accessing sport, leisure, culture and recreational experiences; - Identify challenges encountered by disabled persons because of inter-sectional factors, such as age, gender, sexual orientation or religious beliefs; - Understand which models of disability have contributed to the access or the deprivation of such rights as those in Article 30 of the UNCRPD; - Describe what tourism is, explain the concept of accessible tourism and tourism for all. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - To explain the origin of socially constructed barriers to sports, leisure, recreation and culture experienced by disabled persons; - To critically evaluate local and international platforms to sports, leisure, recreation and culture from a disability studies perspective; - To appraise local and international barriers and enablers to quality of life as per Article 30 of the UNCRPD; - To explain what accessible tourism is, what social tourism is, the underlying principles and European initiatives on tourism for all and social tourism and critically appraise efforts in these areas; - To analyse the concept of Universal Design as a possible solution to challenges faced by disabled people in this life domain. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Thomas, N., & Smith, A. (2008). Disability, sport and society: An introduction. Routledge. - Lantz, E., & Marcellini, A. (2018). Sports games for people with intellectual disabilities. Institutional analysis of an unusual international configuration. Sport in Society, 21(4), 635-648. - Marcellini, A. (2018). The extraordinary development of sport for people with dis/abilities. What does it all mean?. Alter, 12(2), 94-104. - Buhalis, D. & Darcy, S. (2010). Accessible tourism. Channel View Publications. - Tourism Policy. European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/tourism/businessportal/accessibility_en - Ginnerup, S. (2009). Achieving Full Participation Through Universal Design. Council of Europe. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Maria Victoria Gauci Marie Louise Mangion |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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