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    Learning as transformation in the development of expertise by elite indigenous Australian athletes (2018)

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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/18282
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    https://doi.org/10.26773/smj.180617
    
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    Montenegrin Sports Academy
    ISSN
    1451-7485
    2337-0351
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    Light RL
    Evans JR
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    Abstract

    This article addresses the lack of attention paid to research on the development of Indigenous sporting expertise from a socio-cultural perspective. It inquires into the role that informal games played in the development of Australian Indigenous AFL and NRL players up to the age of thirteen. The study adopted a combined narrative inquiry and constructivist grounded theory methodology. The study highlighted to central role that informal games played in the development of expertise and a distinctive Aboriginal style of play shaped by Indigenous culture. This article suggests the central role that informal games shaped by Aboriginal culture played in the development of expertise and an Aboriginal style of play. It also suggests the need for coaching beyond Indigenous players to consider the use of games in training regimes.

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    Light RL, Evans JR (2018). Learning as transformation in the development of expertise by elite indigenous Australian athletes. Sport Mont Journal. 16(2). 93-96.
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    Keywords
    Indigenous sport, informal games, Australian football, rugby league, Australia, transformative learning; Indigenous sport; informal games; Australian football; rugby league; Australia; transformative learning
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    45 - Indigenous studies::4501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history
    39 - Education

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