Health: Chapters and Books
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Boxing technique
(Routledge, 2020)Tactics, awareness and decision-making are very important in boxing when sparring or competing but the focus of the session Richard reflects on in this chapter was purely technical and aimed at learners with no, or little, ... -
Beach sprint starts
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter recounts my experiences of working as an age group manager in a ‘nippers’ program at a surf lifesaving club in Sydney, Australia. Nippers programs focus on educating children from five years of age to fourteen ... -
The influence of experience and culture on leadership
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Teaching javelin in a Singapore school
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter focuses on Richard Light’s experience of teaching junior secondary students in Singapore as part of a four-day seminar he delivered on Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching to physical education teachers. To ... -
Introduction
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An outline of Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching
(Routledge, 2020)In this chapter we provide an overview of Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching for all sports. It begins with its development from the features of game-based approaches (GBA) to then move on to the appropriation of ... -
Influence of a PPed university course on coaches’ practice on New Zealand.
(Routledge, 2020)Growth in university sport coaching programs offers a promising means of spreading the uptake of GBA (game-based approaches) due to the greater opportunity they offer to initiate change in coaching. Although studies have ... -
A Freirean perspective on Indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression?
(Routledge, 2020)A Freirean perspective on Indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression? Richard L Light & John R Evans This chapter draws on findings from a study that inquired into the journeys of ... -
Creating cultures of belonging: engaging diversity to enhance learning
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Swimming: The second kick in butterfly
(Routledge, 2020)Although there is a tactical element in long distance swimming events, developing correct technique is of central importance when coaching young swimmers but mechanistic coaching is not the only way to do this with this ... -
Culturally Responsive Practice for Indigenous Contexts: Provenance to Potential
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)Cultural diversity within educational communities is becoming more visible, discussed, and promoted than ever before. Interest in diversity has escalated as educational communities become increasingly globalized. While ... -
Croquet
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Athlete Centred Coaching for Individual Sports
(Routledge, 2017)Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching is a relatively recent development but one that offers a way of thinking about coaching individual sports, technique and skill that are athlete-centred. This chapter outlines the Positive ... -
Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching: The influence of Positive Psychology.
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Windows, wheels and wai: public policy, environmental health action and Maori community development - implications for (eco)social work
(Canterbury University PressUniversity of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)Many New Zealanders take access to safe drinking-water for granted, yet approximately 20 percent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s population is supplied with water that does not comply with drinking-water standards. Non-compliant ... -
Health policy, health inequalities and Maori
(Canterbury University PressUniversity of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2016)Health policy has the very important role of guiding the efforts of the health sector towards population health, navigating the ‘choppy waters’ or dynamic contexts within which health is impacted and promoted. As the ...
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