Sports Pedagogy: Key Concepts

• Unit 1 covers pedagogy, didactics, and pedagogy of sport.
• The unit explores the pedagogical foundations of physical-sporting activities.
• Key terms include sports, games, physical education, and other physical practices.

Game

• A form of playful, rule-governed competition.
• Outcomes depend on skill, strategy, or chance.

Sport

• Institutionalized games and activities.
• Outcomes depend on physical skill, prowess, and strategy.
• Siedentop, 2007, p.104 defines sport this way.

Physical Education

• A learning process that increases knowledge and affects attitudes and behavior.
• Relates to physical activities including exercise, sports, games, dance, aquatic activities, and outdoor adventure activities.
• Espinoza, 2006, p.5 defines physical education this way.

Physical Activity

• Any form of physical exercise is considered physical activity, according to Collins dictionary.

Game vs Sport vs Physical Activity and Physical Education

• Game is the most playful experience of physical activity.
• Sport involves organized and structured practices.
• Physical activity and Physical Education is integral physical activity.

Physical activity

• Involves individual participants.
• Aims to be recreative.
• Can be done alone .
• Objective is the activity itself.
• Choice is free
• Context is everywhere.

Physical education

• Involves collective participants.
• Aims to be sporty.
• Requires a teacher.
• Objective is learning basic education
• Choice is mandatory.
• Context is school.

Pedagogy

• Defined in the Oxford dictionary as the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
• From the etymological perspective stems from the greek word "Paidos", meaning the Development of children.
• Affects more than children and includes physical education for the elderly.
• Attends to artistic, social, or physical education
• Is not only a descriptive and explanatory science, but is also executive of the educational phenomenon

Pedagogy aspects

• Pedagogy puts into order and gives structure to what has been contributed by other educational sciences in the training process itself
• Science explaining and regulating the educational process

Theoretical Aspects of Pedagogy

• Need and possibility of education
• Objectives to achieve
• Educational models
• Methods

Practical Aspects of Pedagogy

• Planning the educational process
• Analyzing used methods and techniques
• Evaluation issues

Didactics

• Defined as the art of teaching
• Consists of knowledge that a teacher has about teaching
• Science or educational technique that orients practice to optimize learning and guide students towards knowledge
• Science that studies the teaching-learning process and structuring curricular content in the classroom, defined by Medina (1998)
• Aims to make theories, models, laws, and explanatory ideas about teaching-learning that can be translated into action as methodology
• Concerns teaching, learning, education, and intellectual formation

Differences

• Pedagogy is theoretical-practical and didactic is practical
• Pedagogy concerns order, structure and the contribution of other sciences while Didactics concerns the teaching-learning process
• Pedagogy applies inside and outside the classroom, while Didactics applies in the classroom
• Pedagogy's approach is global (qualitative) and the approach of didactics is specific (analytical)
• The performance of pedagogy is along the process, while Didactics performance is eventual

Pedagogical Criticism

• Part of pedagogy
• Completes the preparation of teachers.
• Trains teachers to see both the defects and benefits of the education-assessment process.
• It implies a deep knowledge of pedagogical conditions for teaching-learning and the fundamental purposes of physical education.

Pedagogical Criticism Judgement

• Must be complete, covering advantages, disadvantages, corrections, and consequences
• Should be impartial and sincere, considering all factors
• Be positive to contribute to improving the criticized subject
• Must be free, not influenced by currents of thoughts
• Be scientific, following a method

Aspects Submitted to Criticism in PE

• Presentation of the professor.
• Class discipline
• Teaching styles
• Duration of class
• Correspondence with the teaching plan.
• Feedback

Areas of point of view

The presentation of the professor

• It is a teacher's method of presenting a task
• Includes showing the exercise, explaining it, or allowing students to do it independently
• Can be conventional or unconventional

Class discipline

• Depends on the behavior of the students and the teacher's approach
• Requires a balance, as strict implementation can have negative effects
• Supports the teaching-learning process

Teaching styles

• Accommodate individual learning paces
• Vary depending on the students and the teacher's preferences
• Need to be chosen and organized based on the teaching group
• Each one has their own advantages and disadvantages

Pedagogy summary

• Practical + theoretical
• The study of teaching classes scientifically to improve them.
• Science of teaching
• The method and practice of teaching
• Sport pedagogy founds effective teaching and coaching in physical education and youth sport

Didactics summary

• Teaching and learning process
• Implements practical aspects in the classroom
• A teaching learning process that includes practical and theory
• Practicing while using the teaching learning method
• Part of pedagogy that studies teaching techniques and methods

Pedagogy vs Didactic

• Didactic is more specific since it is a teaching learning process
• Pedagogy is theory while didactic focuses on practical teachings