In pursuit of becoming a senior coach: the learning culture for Australian Football League coaches     

Clifford J. Mallett  Tony Rossi  Steven B. Rynne  Richard Tinning 《Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy》2016,21(1):24-39

Background and Purpose: Given the turbulent and highly contested environment in which professional coaches work, a prime concern to coach developers is how coaches learn their craft. Understanding the learning and development of senior coaches (SCs) and assistant coaches (ACs) in the Australian Football League (AFL – the peak organisation for Australian Rules Football) is important to better develop the next generation of performance coaches. Hence the focus of this research was to examine the learning of SC and AC in the AFL. Fundamental to this research was an understanding that the AFL and each club within the league be regarded as learning organisations and workplaces with their own learning cultures where learning takes place. The purpose of this paper was to examine the learning culture for AFL coaches.

Method: Five SCs, 6 ACs, and 5 administrators (4 of whom were former coaches) at 11 of the 16 AFL clubs were recruited for the research project. First, demographic data were collected for each participant (e.g. age, playing and coaching experience, development and coach development activities). Second, all participants were involved in one semi-structured interview of between 45 and 90 minutes duration. An interpretative (hierarchical content) analysis of the interview data was conducted to identify key emergent themes.

Results: Learning was central to AFL coaches becoming a SC. Nevertheless, coaches reported a sense of isolation and a lack of support in developing their craft within their particular learning culture. These coaches developed a unique dynamic social network (DSN) that involved episodic contact with a number of respected confidantes often from diverse fields (used here in the Bourdieuian sense) in developing their coaching craft. Although there were some opportunities in their workplace, much of their learning was unmediated by others, underscoring the importance of their agentic engagement in limited workplace affordances.

Conclusion: The variety of people accessed for the purposes of learning (often beyond the immediate workplace) and the long time taken to establish networks of supporters meant that a new way of describing the social networks of AFL coaches was needed; DSN. However, despite the acknowledged utility of learning from others, all coaches reported some sense of isolation in their learning. The sense of isolation brought about by professional volatility in high-performance Australian Football offers an alternative view on Hodkinson, Biesta and James' attempt in overcoming dualisms in learning.  相似文献   

我国难美体育项目竞赛表演市场价值趋向分析     

钟明宝  姚珂 《许昌学院学报》2004,23(5):64-66

运用社会调查法，以体育观众为研究对象，对我国难关体育项目竞赛表演市场的价值趋向进行分析，结果表明该市场具有直观性、趣味性和艺术性特征．  相似文献   

德国职业教育教师能力领域构成研究与启示     

朱茜  罗珺 《教育教学论坛》2019,(3):70-71

本文从德国职业教育教师能力领域及其具体标准入手,对我国高职院校教师职业能力存在的问题进行分析,提出促进教师职业能力发展的对策和建议。  相似文献   

论大学教师专业发展的途径   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

张亚群 《大学.研究与评价》2007,(2)

大学教师的专业化发展是高校教师资源开发和学科建设的核心内容,它在保障和提升大学教育质量方面发挥了重要作用。各国大学教师专业发展的内容、程度和实现途径虽不尽相同,但也存在诸多相通之处。本文主要从学术研究、学位课程学习、教学实践和国际教育交流四个方面,论析当今大学教师专业发展的途径及其作用。  相似文献   

提高馆员的素质是图书馆工作质量的重要保证     

陈玉芳 《桂林师范高等专科学校学报》2005,19(2):106-108

在新的形势下，图书馆馆员要适应时代的需要，提高工作质量，做一个合格的馆员，就应该具备良好的思想道德品质，加强知识管理意识、信息服务意识、创新意识和终身学习意识及信息能力的培养，不断更新自身的知识结构，以适应知识经济时代信息急剧增长、知识迅猛更新的需求，更好地为读者、科研服务。  相似文献   

谈高职院校精神文明建设     

王玲 《天津职业院校联合学报》2001,3(3):42-43

搞好社会主义精神文明建设,对提高中华民族的整体素质,对增强综合国力、实现社会主义现代化建设具有重要的战略意义.学校作为社会主义一代新人的培养基地,自然是社会主义精神文明建设的主战场.高等职业教育院校必须不断提高认识,坚持物质文明和精神文明两手抓,两手都要硬;坚持守土有责,进行卓绝奋斗;坚持结合实际,制订规划、选准目标,切实加强师生员工的精神文明建设,推动学校的改革和发展.  相似文献   

非必修类专业课教学实践探讨   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

叶佩青  石川  张辉 《实验技术与管理》2007,24(4):100-103

以数字控制技术课程为例,探讨如何开展本科四年级非必修类专业课的教学实践。通过调研,提出了一些用于该类课程改革的思路和具体措施,如尝试引入新颖的教学方式,调整教学内容,做到教与学并进。教学改革实践表明,这能有效提高学生的学习积极性,有利于培养学生的创新意识,收到了较好的教学效果。  相似文献   

立足应用性人才培养 创建新型高职院校校园文化     

宋瑞斌 《鸡西大学学报》2006,6(5):14-15

高职院校的校园文化,既具有高等学校校园文化所共有的特征,又具有自身的鲜明特色。本文立足于高等职业技术教育,从高职院校应用性人才的培养上入手,探讨了高职院校校园文化建设的框架。  相似文献   

困境与破解:小学教师职业幸福感探析--以杭州市C小学为例     

吴欢巧 《教育文化论坛》2020,12(3):101-106

就杭州市C小学教师"职业幸福感"的调查显示,该小学教师存在职业倦怠、成长诉求、职业发展等方面的问题,教师缺乏幸福感。从教师管理的角度来看,其原因主要在于:"关爱缺位"减退了教师幸福指数,"诉求过场"阻碍了教师投入动力,"评价单向"局限了教师快乐发展。针对存在的问题,C小学实施了三个策略:一是学校推动,自上而下突进,营造幸福场域;二是教师行动,自下而上突击,贯通幸福维度;三是整体联动,上下结合突围,彰显幸福效度。三个策略的实施,有效推动了教师群体在学习方式、教科研能力、教育方法等方面的提升,激发了教师的内在驱动力和职业幸福感。  相似文献   

职业权利（权力）与宪政秩序     

韩秀义 《河南师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2006,33(2):33-36

无论是经典作家对西方法律传统或宪政秩序的解说,还是西方宪政秩序的生成与扩展,实际上都是从“分”或职业权利(权力)的分立与发达开始的。这不仅是因为自由主义乃宪政秩序与职业权利(权力)的共同价值基础,而且也因为分立、合作与对抗是宪政秩序与职业权利(权力)多元格局的现实基础。  相似文献