Sport Pedagogy

Recommended Prerequisites

Competences and knowledge compatible to access to Higher Education.  Knowledge of Pedagogy and Sport History

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies combine the expositive lectures with field work, divided by practice observation, through recording tools, and coaches’s interviews. The activities are performed by small groups of students. Video resources are widely used for observation and demonstration of good practices.Internet search of group interests sites (TGfU or  Game Sense) is also used.

Learning Outcomes

The unit deals with cultural and relational aspects of training, how they fit in social reality, and the relations with all the agents, and organizations, especially through the study of the coach. The understanding of sports and sports competitions, how the athletes learn during their personal development, and the importance of preparation to compete.

The students should be able to critically analyze the different environments they are going to meet in their professional lives.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1)Sport Pedagogy as a meeting point for sport sciences: past, present and future.

2)Quality in practice. Good practice and efficient practice. The importance of quality.

3)The coach as a central actor in Sport Pedagogy. The philosophy of the coach.

4) Reflexive coach. The competences of the coach.

5)The learning process. To know the athletes and how they learn sports skills. Constructivism in sport training and the athletes’ identity.

6) Learning methods. Heuristic and hermeneutic, global and analytic.

7)Observation and analysis of practice sessions. Methods and tools.

8) Constuctivism.  Teaching Games for Understanding and Game Sense.

9)The athletes’ perceptions of their coaches: effects on motivation, well being and performance. The athletes’ participation in their own training.

10)Ecological approach of training process

Head Lecturer(s)

Manuel João Cerdeira Coelho Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 20.0%
Project: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Kretchmar, R. (2005). Practical Philosophy of Sport d Physical Activity. Champaign, Ill., Human Kinetics.

Cassidy, T., Jones, R. & Potrac, P. (2005). Understanding Sport Coaching. London, Routledge.

Martens, R. (1997). Successful Coaching. Champaign, Ill., Human Kinetics.

Jones, R. (2006). The Sports Coach as an Educator. London, Routledge

Moreno, P. & del Villar, F. ( 2004). El Entrenador Deportivo. Barcelona, INDE.

Gonçalves, CE, Coelho e Silva, M., Carvalho, H.M., Gonçalves, A. (2011) Why do they engage in such hard programs? The search for excellence in youth Basketball. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 10, 3, 458-464.

Light, R. (2008). Sport in the lives of young Australians. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Jackson, B., Knapp, P., & Beauchamp, M. (2009). The coach-athlete relationship: A tripartite efficacy perspective. The Sport Psychologist, 23, 203–232.