Investigating the teaching styles of tennis coaches using The Spectrum
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Article Title | Investigating the teaching styles of tennis |
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ERA Journal ID | 210019 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Hewitt, Mitchell (Author), Edwards, Ken (Author), Ashworth, Sarah (Author) and Pill, Shane (Author) |
Journal Title | Sport Science Review |
Journal Citation | 25 (5-6), pp. 321-344 |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2016 |
Place of Publication | Romania |
ISSN | 2066-8732 |
2069-7244 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1515/ssr-2015-0022 |
Abstract | It is unknown what teaching styles (range of pedagogies) coaches are employing during coaching sessions and whether these teaching styles are associated with recommended pedagogical principles advocated by sport and coaching scholars. It is unknown whether twenty years of coach education has shifted coaching practice as the insights into the pedagogical diversity and preference of teaching styles that underpin and inform the coaches’ decisions to employ particular teaching strategies during coaching sessions are undetermined. This paper addresses these unknowns in the field of tennis coaching in Australia by reporting the findings of a study that address the lack of information on the teaching styles employed by tennis coaches by asking the following research question: What teaching styles are junior coaches in Australia actually using during coaching sessions? This study used The Spectrum (Mosston & Ashworth, 2008) of teaching styles as a tool to assess the observed teaching styles of twelve junior coaches. Contrary to the educational convictions of Australian sport coach education materials the results from this study indicated that the coaches in this study potentially did not offer players developmental opportunities beyond a limited range (i.e., motor skill development in the physical learning domain) due to a narrow pedagogical mix in their coaching. |
Keywords | tennis, coaching, teaching, styles, Spectrum |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390111. Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogy |
Byline Affiliations | Tennis Australia, Australia |
School of Health and Wellbeing | |
Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning, United States | |
Flinders University | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3vqx/investigating-the-teaching-styles-of-tennis-coaches-using-the-spectrum
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