英文摘要 |
Background: To further extend the athletic life while achieving the goals of higher education, college student athletes (CSA) in Taiwan enter the universities and choose majors related to sports and physical education. However, due to enormous time investment in training/competition, limited efforts have been put in career exploration, resulting in narrowing down of their career perspectives. Although traditional career counseling service is beneficial for enhancing career readiness, utilization of career services among CSAs is limited due to personal time constraints or career counselors’unfamiliarity with the sport ecology. An athlete career planning course embedder into the curriculum framework and taught by the faculty member from the department might be beneficial to effectively and systematically exert the benefits of career education and also be ''localized'' for better accommodating for the ever-changing nature of CSAs’competition/training schedules. Purpose: This study aimed to share the curricula development and examine the effectiveness of this novel course. Method: The course is offered in the first semester, first year in the Department of Sports in a comprehensive university located in central Taiwan. It is a 3-credit-hour, elective course. Content domains included career and life development, self-exploration, exploration of sport related careers, and career decision-making skills. The instructor is a full-time faculty member from the department with specialties in career counseling and sports psychology. Teaching method integrated didactic lecturing, psychological testing, collaborative learning, alumni sharing, and construction of personal learning portfolios. 115 CSAs enrolled in the 2019 and 2020 cohorts agreed to participate in this study. Questionnaires were administered prior and after the course to measure the effectiveness of the course. Results: Repeated measure MANOVA indicated that CSAs’career choice difficulties were significantly reduced especially in anxiety/hesitation, lack of personal information, and lack of career/education information; additionally, career self-efficacy was significantly enhanced especially in goal setting, self-assessment, career planning and information gathering. Conclusion: The feasibility and effectiveness of the athlete career planning course based on the curriculum framework of the department were substantiated. Content of this course might serve as a reference for future career planning related courses at university-level for student athletes. |