Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Game-based approaches (GBAs) locate the concept of meaning in the conceptualisation of games as decision-laden, problem-solving contexts. GBAs provide an alternative to the technical orientated ‘behavourist’ teaching and sport coaching which is based on a dominance of direct instruction for replication of prescribed movement models (Pill & Hyndman, 2018): what Tinning (2010) described as demonstrate-explain-practice.

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Sports Sports Sport Movement 52

Informed Practitioner in Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Talent is both innate and something that emerges over time, such that both nature and nurture play important roles. There are also various different facets of talent, encompassing physical, physiological, cognitive, and psychosocial components. Aside from choosing your parents well, formative experiences and elements of character interact in how these capabilities emerge.

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Physiology Coaching Sports Sports 52

RC Families

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Perhaps this is an oversimplification about parenting, but I believe the following statement is true: If parents parented with the bigger picture in mind, many of our problems would not be so big. Each day you find that it’s easy to get caught up in just getting through today, and parenting for tomorrow seems like. Read More.

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