Responses of study abroad students in Australia to experience-based pedagogy in sport studies
- Authors: Light, Richard , Georgakis, Steve
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Vol. , no. (2008), p.
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- Description: This paper contributes to research on the scholarship of teaching in the physical education/sport studies fields by examining the responses of study abroad students from overseas studying in Australia to a unit of study in sport studies that placed the interpretation of experience as the centre of the learning process. It draws on research conducted at an Australian university over an 18-month period and involving 170 participants. The study focused on the ways in which student motivations, inclinations, expectations and prior experience interacted with experiences of living in Australia and the experience-based nature of the unit of study shaped their responses and perceptions of learning.
Dispositions of elite-level Australian rugby coaches towards game sense : Characteristics of their coaching habitus
- Authors: Light, Richard , Evans, John
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport, Education and Society Vol. 18, no. 3 (2013), p. 407-423
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- Description: Bourdieu's analytic concept of habitus has provided a valuable means of theorising coach development but is yet to be operationalised in empirical research. This article redresses this oversight by drawing on a larger study that inquired into how the 'coaching habitus' of elite-level Australian and New Zealand rugby coaches structured their interpretation and use of the Game Sense approach to coaching to illustrate how habitus can be operationalised. It focuses on the identification of characteristics of the individual coaching habitus of four elite-level Australian rugby coaches and how they shape their interpretation and use of Game Sense. Drawing on suggestions made by Lau, we identify the characteristics of four individual 'coaching habitus' by examining their views on: (1) the characteristics of good coaches; (2) characteristics of great rugby players and how to develop them; and (3) their dispositions towards innovation in coaching. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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Why children join and stay in sports clubs : Case studies in Australian, French and German swimming clubs
- Authors: Light, Richard , Harvey, Stephen , Memmert, Daniel
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport, Education and Society Vol. 18, no. 4 (2013), p. 550-566
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- Description: This article builds upon research on youth sport clubs conducted from a socio-cultural perspective by reporting on a study that inquired into the reasons why children aged 9-12 joined swimming clubs in France, Germany and Australia. Comprising three case studies it employed a mixed method approach with results considered within the framework of Côté and colleagues' Development Model of Sport Participation (DMSP). It identifies the importance of parents, the social dimensions of experience in the clubs and of appropriate competition in attracting the children to the clubs and keeping them there. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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Improving 'at-action' decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach
- Authors: Light, Richard , Harvey, Stephen , Mouchet, Alain
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport, Education and Society Vol. 19, no. 3 (April 2014 2014), p. 258-275
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- Description: This article draws on Game Sense pedagogy and complex learning theory (CLT) to make suggestions for improving decision-making ability in team sports by adopting a holistic approach to coaching with a focus on decision-making 'at-action'. It emphasizes the complexity of decision-making and the need to focus on the game as a whole entity, where players, individually and collectively, attempt to manage disorder in the face of an opposition. It rejects the complicated, mechanistic approach to learning and cognitivist views that dominate the literature on decision-making in team sports that see it as being a linear process of conscious thinking limited to the individual mind. It offers an alternative, holistic view grounded in a practical example of how this might be achieved in coaching rugby union football and theorized within a CLT framework.
Learning through experience: The Influence of context on the development of Rugby coaches' beliefs and practice
- Authors: Hassanin, Remy , Light, Richard
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Educational Research and Sports Education p. 92-96
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- Description: Aim. This article reports on a case study that inquired into how coaches' beliefs about and dispositions toward coaching that structure their practice were developed through long-term experience. Method. Focused on three coaches working at high performance levels in Victoria, Australia data was generated through three rounds of semi-structured interviews and observation over a three-month period. Results. The three coaches were from three diferent countries with the study highlighting the powerful influence of socio-cultural context on the construction of a coaching habitus and the ways in which it structurted their coaching.