Some writing based on my recent 'Dog Walk Diary Podcast' 'Beware of research with catchy 3 line slogans'. www.thetalentequation.co.uk/single-post/...
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Some writing based on my recent 'Dog Walk Diary Podcast' 'Beware of research with catchy 3 line slogans'. www.thetalentequation.co.uk/single-post/...
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This is a fabulous video from @intrinzen that draws on a new paper by @MadhurMangalam that rips apart the notion of correct movement technique.
Must Watch!!
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"But when you make different assumptions about the way that the brain works... instead of it being a linear, processing machine, you instead think of it as a dynamic system...So our consciousness is an emergent property..."
How to avoid becoming a 'puppeteer coach'.
From my conversation with Jeffrey Wagman and Julia Blau (authors of 'An introduction to ecological psychology')
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My recent podcast with Steve Whelan where we explore his journey away from traditional tennis coaching and the challenges of working ecologically in a sport full of culturally resilient beliefs youtube.com/watch?v=RH69...
Some great writing from @mrtenniscoach.bsky.social
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Why do sports leaders undervalue investing in coaching and workforce development? 'The Eighth Waste' www.thetalentequation.co.uk/single-post/...
In this episode we explore so many spaces, thinking out loud with #coaching topics like talent development, nonlinear pedagogy and fun.
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New podcast exploring how coach developers can enhance their impact…
‘The Eighth Waste…’
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Yes, Cognitive Psychology advocates HAVE systematically kicked the can down the road - it's a "science" based on faith that someday, someone else will bridge the gaps identified by everyone from Bergson and James to Deleuze and Guattari - see cognitioninaction.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/7.-g...
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“In most western societies...'vocational learning is for the thick kids'.”
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@dannyhatcher.bsky.social debunks a recent academic paper that tried to make criticisms of the ecological approach to learning and skill development…
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Podcast by @stu-arm.bsky.social with Shawn Myszka and Tyler Yearby, two authors particularly targeted in this paper
So in my mind - I would rather be committed and wrong than uncommitted.
More importantly…
Coaches will do a load of boring, isolated, technique drills (because that’s what they’ve always done)
And then they will switch to a game and stand back and say and do nothing (because they are being ecological)
That’s actually the worst of both worlds (I’ve seen it! A LOT!)
The irony of this is that he devalues the whole scientific enterprise in the process.
I can only assume that he’s doing this because coaching is getting interested in (what he sees as) the ‘wrong’ scientific ideas.
Ideas that don’t correlate with his particular brand of research…(or consultancy)
So he tells coaches that they can pick and choose…
Collins et al have campaigned for years that coaching should be more evidence led or evidence informed - but at a point when coaching is now getting interested in scientific ideas…he says that no one needs to worry, it’s complicated, ‘it depends’…just use your Professional Judgment…
I do worry about pluralism - but more from a real world perspective.
Coaching and ‘science’ are two words that did not go together until fairly recently
Even now, 90% of coaches will never even think to look at anything remotely scientific
Coaching is driven by ‘folk pedagogy’
I would argue that this empirical data stone can be thrown right back at Collins and his acolytes
Most of the studies that they would refer to as supporting their claims are either from other domains like formal education or from decontextualised lab studies.
Not to mention the replication crisis!
Couldn’t agree more about how egregious this is…it smacks of desperation…
‘That looks ‘iffy’ - let’s attack it because we haven’t got much else to go on’!
I have a Podcast coming out from those two Authors giving them an opportunity to respond to this abhorrent attack.
Ecological Dynamicists only go after straw men because there are so many of them everywhere!
If you see so many of these men everywhere you go they become less straw and more steel!
If anything it’s ’new wine in old bottles’
Conditioned games under a behaviourist or cognitive framing would be used as a way to make the athletes do what you want…i.e. play two touch to get everyone’s heads up and force them to pass.
A CLA in EcoD uses conditions to make aspects of the environment more or less attractive.
What they get wrong is that they assume that the constraints led approach is the same as something like ‘conditioned games’. This conflation allows them to make the ‘old wine in new bottles’ claim but it really just shows the lack of knowledge of the approach.
Should high performance ex athletes be able to short cut coach education?
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