ABSTRACT
Shedding new light on sport pedagogy and the teaching and coaching of games, this book shows how complexity theory can be used to improve team sport performance, coach education, and young player development.
The book draws together insights from both the humanities and behavioural sciences, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and play theory into a new educational methodology for team sports. It shows how concepts from complexity theory underpin and inform team sport dynamics, including the uncontrolled nature of live human systems; the nature of complex systems and how this shapes student and young athlete learning; self-organization and its relation to decision-making in play; and mental self-regulation and motivation.
It presents an innovative and sophisticated definition of sport pedagogy that can help teachers and coaches deepen their understanding of teaching and learning in team sports and help them develop more motivated, more effective, and more creative athletes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|29 pages
What is human play? A philosophical issue
part II|42 pages
How humans play
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Cognition, behaviour, and activity in games playing through a complexity prism
part III|31 pages
How human culture plays games
part IV|71 pages
How to teach and coach games