NZ Context Flashcards
(17 cards)
What is practical wisdom?
- The feel for the game
- Situation-dependent
- Thinking about the best way to act in that situation, not what the textbook says
What is pedagogy?
The interaction between the coach, the athlete, the content and the context
Why is context important?
It’s always changing which effects the pedagogy
What 3 sports organisations became one?
Hillary commission, NZ sports foundation and Office of tourism and sport became Sport and Recreation NZ (SPARC)
What is SPARC?
- Sport and recreation NZ
- Focuses on participation, high performance and sports systems
- It’s a fresh start for government intervention in the sport and recreation sector
What do participation stats tell us?
- Results continue to highlight inequities in play, active recreation, and sport by age, gender, ethnicity, deprivation and disability
- Overall, adults are trending downwards
How many coaches in NZ?
More than 300,000 coaches with nearly 90% being volunteers. Only about 8,000 paid coaches
What is physical literacy?
- The motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding required by participants that allows them to value and take responsibility for engaging in PA and sport for life
- A contested concept
What is context?
- Like a weave, all the things that come together to make a thing eg.
- Economic/political/physical landscape
- People, personalities, relationships
- Morals and ethics
- Pedagogical approaches
- Aspirations and motivations
- History
What is effective coaching?
The consistent application of integrated professional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal knowledge to improve athletes competence, confidence, connection and character in specific coaching contexts
What was the language change in coaching?
- Changed from coach education to coach development
- Focus on the how (skills) and why (understanding) and not the what (knowledge)
What is coach education?
- ‘Getting knowledge into heads’
- Generic courses for all coaches
- Formalised, accredited, certified and standardised programmes
What is coach development?
- Takes into account the multivariate ways we learn because of the various communities
- Recognising the nuances of coaching communities
- Ongoing professional development process informed by an applied athlete-centred philosophy
- The coach is the learner too
How do coaches learn?
- Trial and error
- Mentoring/support
- Review/reflection
- Courses/qualifications
- Feedback/advice
- In the moment
- Hearing from the players
- Observations
What is the NZ coach approach?
Promotes athlete learning, and ownership of that learning through creating awareness, responsibility and self belief
What is a coach-centred coach?
- Instructs (tells athletes what to do)
- Determines the direction and goals for the team
- Focuses on winning and the achievement of results
- Expects athletes to comply with their instructions during games
- Has a ‘win at all costs’ attitude
- Views athletes as a collective with the same needs
What is an athlete-centred coach?
- Asks questions and helps athletes to find their own solutions
- Facilitates athletes and team to set their own goals
- Develops athletes that are self-aware, capable of making decisions and able to correct themselves
- Tries to develop the whole athlete: technically, physically, mentally and socially
- Views athletes as a collection of individuals with individual needs
Assumption is that athlete centred is best
