Contemporary Sport Management With Web Study Guide-4th Edition

This fourth edition textbook delves into contemporary sport management principles, featuring web study guides and experiential activities. It explores historical overviews, key figures in dance and sports, and integrates technology for interactive learning. Ideal for students seeking a thorough understanding of sport and dance management with practical applications.

Contemporary Sport Management With Web Study Guide-4th Edition provides an in-depth exploration of sport management fundamentals. Authored by Paul M. Pedersen, Lucie Thibault, Janet Parks, and Jerome Quarterman, this 480-page text covers key aspects of the field.

The book includes sections on developing deeper perspectives, encouraging visual and aesthetic scanning, learning period dances, observing performances, and writing reports. It features vocabulary terms at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning.

Chapters in parts II through IV offer overviews of time periods with time capsules, historical, and societal insights. They focus on major dancers, choreographers, personalities, dance forms, designs, accompaniment, costuming, and performing spaces, along with significant dance works and literature.

Eight experiential learning activities per chapter promote deeper engagement, including perceiving, creating, performing, writing, and presenting oral activities integrated with technology. These reproducible templates can serve as assignments or extended projects to apply concepts.

The text emphasizes the history of dance and its connections to other arts, using interactive technology to make the content more accessible and meaningful for students.