A Freirean perspective on Indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression?

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dc.contributor.authorLight, Richard L.
dc.contributor.authorEvans, John R.
dc.contributor.editorBradbury S
dc.contributor.editorLusted J
dc.contributor.editorVan Sterkenburg J
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T00:09:47Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T00:09:47Z
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.date.updated2020-06-24T02:43:03Z
dc.description.abstractA 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 Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the ‘footy’ to reaching he highest levels of their sport as a process of culturally situated learning. It identified two major stages of development in their development which were (1) the development of the foundations of expertise and a distinctly Aboriginal style of play up to the age of twelve to thirteen years of age and, (2) meeting the challenges of cultural transitioning toward and into professional sport with Aboriginal culture playing a central role in both stages. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire we contrast the dialogic pedagogy of learning to play up to around the age of twelve, characterized by playing informal, self-regulated games free of adult interference with the highly regulated, monitored and individualized anti-dialogic approach of professional Australian football and rugby league that the participants had to adapt to. We identify the dialogic Aboriginal approach to learning that empowers learners and provides them with dialogic bonds to connect them with their world to contrast it with the anti-dialogic pedagogy of professional sport that dehumanizes and objectifies learners and learning.en
dc.identifier.citationLight R,Evans J (2020). A Freirean perspective on Indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression?. In Bradbury S, Lusted J, Van Sterkenburg J (Ed.), Race, ethnicity and racism in sport coaching.: 112-127. London and New York: Routledge.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854287
dc.identifier.isbn9780367854287
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101008
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::45 - Indigenous studies::4502 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3901 - Curriculum and pedagogy::390111 - Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3902 - Education policy, sociology and philosophy::390299 - Education policy, sociology and philosophy not elsewhere classifieden
dc.titleA Freirean perspective on Indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression?en
dc.typeChaptersen
uc.collegeFaculty of Health
uc.departmentSchool of Health Sciences
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