Sport Pedagogy offers an essential starting point for anyone who
cares about sport, education and young people. It offers invaluable
theoretical and practical guidance for studying to become an
effective teacher or coach, and for anyone who wants to inspire
children and young people to engage in and enjoy sport for life.
The book also focuses on you as a learner in sport, prompting you
to reflect critically on the ways in which your early learning
experiences might affect your ability to diagnose the learning
needs of young people with very different needs. Sport Pedagogy is
about learning in practice. It refers both the ways in which
children and young people learn and the pedagogical knowledge and
skills that teachers and coaches need to support them to learn
effectively. Sport pedagogy is the study of the place where sport
and education come together. The study of sport pedagogy has three
complex dimensions that interact to form each pedagogical
encounter: Knowledge in context - what is regarded as essential or
valuable knowledge to be taught, coached or learnt is contingent
upon historical, social and political contextual factors that
define practice; Learners and learning -at the core of sport
pedagogy is expertise in complex learning theories, and a deep
understanding of diversity and its many impacts on the ways in
which young learners can learn; Teachers/teaching and
coaches/coaching - effective teachers and coaches are lifelong
learners who can harness the power of sport for diverse children
and young people. Gaining knowledge and understanding of the three
dimensional concept of sport pedagogy is the first step towards
ensuring that the rights of large numbers of children and young
people to effective learning experiences in and through sport are
not denied. The book is organised into three sections: background
and c
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