This book challenges existing literature on student-athletes and examines the obstacles student-athletes face with respect to academic achievement in college. Blum includes excerpts from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US student-athletes, coaches, academic advisors, and learning specialists to provide insights on how student-athletes define success academically, athletically, and professionally. He also identifies the challenges student-athletes face inside and outside of the classroom and how they can be helped in achieving academic success.
Table of Content
1. ‘Why Should We Have to Go to Class if We Came Here to Play Football?’ What This Book is About.- 2. ‘If I Wanted to Play, I Had to Bring Home the Grades’: Interviews with Former Student Athletes.- 3. ‘Emptying the Tank’: Current Student-Athletes.- 4. ‘Going into Classes Blind’: Comparing Student-Athletes’ Experiences.- 5. ‘Professional Sports are a Well-Paying Temporary Job’: Messages from Coaches.- 6. ‘The Importance of Having a Plan B’: Academic Personnel Who Work with Student-Athletes.- 7. Re imagining College Sports and Student Athletes.-
About the author
Dinur Blum is Lecturer in Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Beyond his work on student-athletes in college, he studies the social causes of mass shootings in the US with his colleague Christian G. Jaworski. He also co-hosts the Learning Made Easier podcast with Adam G. Sanford.
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