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Research led but grounded in practice, this course engages students with some of the most recent and cutting edge developments in sport coaching that have sought to apply the wide range of benefits evident in athlete-centred approaches to coaching team sports to individual sports and coaching other physical activities. It engages students with approaches to applying the holistic and humanistic pedagogical principles of athlete centred coaching in team games such as Game Sense to individual, technique-intensive sports such as swimming and athletics. Specifically, it draws on the concept of Positive Pedagogy informed by the pedagogical features of Game Sense adapted to individual sports, Positive Psychology and the work on positive approaches to promoting health and well-being. It engages students with the most recent developments in this field while providing experience through practical sessions as learners and coaches with assessment structured around reflections on this experience informed by the literature.
At the conclusion of this course students will be able to: 1. Outline and discuss the Positive Pedagogy framework used to guide athlete-centred approaches to coaching individual sports that produce positive experiences of learning. (Assessment task 1) 2. Identify and discuss the challenges involved when coaches attempt to adopt an athlete-centred approach to coaching individual and skill-intensive sport. (Assessment task 3)3. Plan and implement an athlete-centred approach to coaching skill in an individual sport through collaboration with others in a coaching team. (Assessment task 2)4. Analyse and critically reflect upon coaching performance for improvement. (Assessment task 3)5. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of being a reflective coach and the subjective nature of knowing and knowledge. (Assessment task 3)
Any 60 points at 100 level from any subject, orany 15 points at 100 level from SPCO.
Richard Light
Domestic fee $777.00
International fee $3,375.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Health Sciences .