Discuss the Consequences of Learners of a Coach Adopting a Narrow Pedagogical Approach to Their Delivery

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Pedagogy is defined by Watkins and Mortimore (1999, p.17) as “any conscious activity by one person designed to enhance learning in another”. No two people are alike, each person will differ in their style in which they do things and how they act. This applies to coaches and teachers as although their methods will contrast, they are essentially teaching or coaching the same field. (Leach and Moon 1999, p.61) argue that effective pedagogic settings have to display a fundamental understanding of encompassing; “all the complex factors that influence the process of teaching and learning.” For everything that is taught there are different aspects which have to be learnt to master a certain field. During practice sessions and observations it was observed that successful coaches demonstrated their ability to incorporate all skills of the game to create successful players i.e. coaching athletes to be competent with all skills in their fields. This demonstrates Siedentops thoughts on pedagogy as he considers pedagogy ‘as the skilful arrangement of an environment in such a way that students acquire specifically intended (intentional) learning’s. Pedagogy links teachers and coaches’ actions with students’ outcomes’. (Siedentop, D. 1987 p.115) The dominant theory of learning in the first half of the twentieth century was behaviourism. (Lyle, J. Cross, N 1999 p.52). This theory is heavily based around learning objectives; as this method enables coaches or teachers to ensure the students full understanding of expectations the coaches or teachers have. When adopting a behaviourist approach, Armour (2011) explains: Behaviourism is a world view that operates on a principle of stimulus-response, i.e. the environment provides a stimulus to which the person learns to respond. In this view, all behaviour can be explained without the need to consider what is
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