Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides sport educators with a comprehensive, learner-centred instructional toolkit to empower children and young people in collaborative, independent learning of sport and games (SGs).
The book is unique in bringing together the various pedagogical dimensions inherent to the teaching-learning process of SGs: the instructional system (teaching strategies), the social system (interactional climate), the task system (learning tasks and activities), and the assessment (for learning) system. It also shows how to effectively involve learners as active agents in promoting more democratic learning environments and equitable interactions between sportspersons. Written by a team of experts with extensive experience of using student-centred approaches as teachers, youth coaches, teacher educators, researchers, and theorists, the book introduces key concepts and evidence-based examples of best practice, with practical instructional strategies, learning tasks, and activities in
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction to a Learner-Oriented Approach, 1. Pedagogical Principles of a Learner-Oriented Approach, 2. Guidelines for Navigating a Learning-Oriented Approach, Part II: Scaffolding Mediation of Instructional and Social Interactions in Sport and Games, 3. Scaffolding as a Pedagogical Toolkit for Learner-Oriented Instruction, 4. Strategies for the Gradual Instructional Mediation of Learner-Oriented Interactions, 5. Strategies for Mediating Democratic, Meaningful, and Collaborative Learning Environments: Engaging Sport Educators and Sport Learners as Transforming Social Agents, Part III: Designing Meaningful and Creative Learning Activities in Sport and Games, 6. Appropriateness-Based Activities: Reaching Out to Every Learner, 7. Constraints-Led Approach: Appropriately Modifying Learning Activities, 8. Creative Learning Activities: Thinking and Playing “Outside the Box”, 9. Learner-Designed Games: The Ultimate Empowerment of Sport Learners, Part IV: Learner-Oriented Assessment, 10. Harmonizing the Teaching-Assessment-Learning Cycle, 11. Implementing Learner-Oriented Assessment Strategies, 12. Empowering Learners’ Self-Assessment, Peer-Assessment, and Sport Learning Through Technology
