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University of Otago
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-12-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2010
DOI: 10.1260/1747-9541.5.2.143
Abstract: When coaching is viewed as a rational process it is often assumed that coaches can reflect upon and, where necessary, change their behaviour. In this commentary, it is contended that using a rational argument to change practice is limited if consideration is not given to the way coaches learn how to coach. Knowledgeability is a generative concept for understanding why it is difficult to change time-honoured practices or day-to-day conventions that have often become taken for granted. The aims of this article are to introduce the concept of ‘knowledgeability’ and associated ‘practical consciousness’, and to highlight the explanatory power of the latter for understanding the change process.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-03-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-05-2019
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to gain understanding of how character is understood in the New Zealand Rugby (NZR) ecology and how the Player Development Manager (PDM) in one Provincial Union (PU) negotiates, constructs and operationalizes interpretations of character within talent identification and development practices. The study design was informed by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model of development and the methodology was case study. The participant in the study was the PDM who worked for one provincial rugby union and NZR. Data was gained using interviews, document analysis and observations. An iterative strategy was employed when adopting the deductive and inductive analysis. The study found that across the NZR ecology there was no universal definition of character, or set of criteria used to assess players’ character. Within the NZR macrosystem there were formal policies that explicitly identified character as a value to be assessed. Yet, implicit understandings and assessment of character also existed. The PDM working in a microsystem constructed his understanding and assessment of character based on his experiences working with, and for, NZR (macrosystem) and the PU (exosystem) respectively, as well as drawing on his personal value set. The findings of this study are significant not only for rugby, in New Zealand and elsewhere, but they are relevant and topical for any selector, recruitment agent or coach who implicitly and explicitly (de)selects participants based on character.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1260/1747-9541.5.4.439
Abstract: Increasingly the professional development literature in sports coaching encourages coaches to coach holistically. Yet the phrase ‘holistic coaching’ is mired in ambiguity and has the potential to become meaningless. The aims of this article are to explore the relationship between holism, humanistic psychology, humanism and sports coaching, and to pose some challenges, which could support the field to move beyond the influence of humanistic psychology.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Date: 2015
Abstract: Progress and improvement in sport is often the result of some type of change. However, change for change sake is not always beneficial. Therefore, to be an effective ‘change agent’ a coach must be able to problematize his or her actions and assess why or why not a change might be needed. Accordingly, helping coaches become active problematizers is vital to the change process. Toward this end, we present in this paper our reflections as coach developers and coaches who considered how to apply Michel Foucault’s understanding of ethics to make self-change a positive force for enhancing athletes’ experiences. We then conclude by suggesting how coach developers might begin to incorporate Foucault’s work into the development of coaches capable of producing change that matters.
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-03-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-03-2011
Abstract: Introduction: A decrease in physical activity amongst adolescents has been observed and it is well documented that low levels of activity are associated with poor health. In an attempt to understand factors that influence physical activity (PA) in young people research was undertaken with high school students in New Zealand to identify preferred places for PA and establish factors that they felt influenced levels of PA. Methods: One hundred males and 73 females in year nine (aged 12—13) in health and physical education classes completed mapping exercises in which they delineated favourite and least favourite places for PA, where they went on a particular Sunday, how they got there and what they did, and chosen after-school activities and how they got there. Results: Open public spaces were the most favoured places for PA with a nearby beach and park most frequently cited. Specific physical activities, having fun, and having friends to do an activity with were the most frequently cited reasons for liking these places. An industrial harbour area, other schools, and cemeteries were the least favoured places. Less than 2% biked somewhere on the Sunday surveyed and only 23% walked somewhere. The majority were driven to activities by car and a similar reliance on cars was observed for after-school activities. Conclusions: A combination of environmental and social factors is important in both encouraging and discouraging PA and should be taken into account when seeking to enhance PA of young people.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-11-2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 04-05-2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.03.539215
Abstract: The Kunming-Montreal Global Bio ersity Framework (GBF) will become the most important multilateral agreement to guide bio ersity conservation actions globally over the coming decades. An ecosystem goal and various targets for maintaining integrity, restoring degraded ecosystems, and achieving representation in conservation areas feature throughout the GBF. Here, we propose an operational framework that combines disparate information on ecosystem type, extent, integrity, levels of protection, and risk of collapse to support the identification of irreplaceable ‘Critical Ecosystem Areas’ (CEAs), to help advance these ecosystem targets. The framework classifies each component ecosystem based on its integrity, importance in ensuring no ecosystem collapse and its relative value to achieving representation if protected. These CEAs are immediate conservation opportunities, given that they achieve multiple ecosystem goals and targets in the GBF. We showcase its application using Myanmar’s forested ecosystems as a case study and argue that it could be immediately used across all terrestrial ecosystems.
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