Physical Literacy - A Journey of Individual Enrichment: An Ecological Dynamics Rationale for Enhancing Performance and Physical Activity in All (Rudd et al., 2020)

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Reference for paper

Rudd, J. R., Pesce, C., Strafford, B. W., & Davids, K. (2020). Physical literacy-A journey of individual enrichment: An ecological dynamics rationale for enhancing performance and physical activity in all. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 1904.

🚀 Article in 3 Sentences

1. Discusses how an Ecological Dynamics Rationale that focuses on ‘enrichment’ can support the development of functional movement that will enable lifelong participation in physical activity.
2. Two learner centred frameworks NLP and the ASM are introduced. These frameworks appreciate the non-linearity in learning and emphasise the importance of enrichment experiences for learners at all stages
3. The final part of the paper looks at the concept of ‘donor’ sports and gives examples of how to measure physical literacy from an Ecological Dynamics rationale

🤝Impressions

Really enjoyed reading this paper. The ASM is a topic that is definitely worth exploring. The concept of Donor sports is something that I need to look into a bit more.

👨‍🏫Who should read this?

Everybody involved in coaching or teaching should read it. It’s more important for people working with youth athletes but the concepts are applicable at all stages of development.

🎾How Article will influence my coaching

• Practice design needs to be coherent innovative and challenging in order to get the learners to explore specific patterns of behaviour which will enhance their ability to solve movement problems more effectively

📃Takeaways for coaches

• Learning movement skills is about enhancing the learners perceptual regulation-they are more sensitive to the specifying information in the environment. See ‘what exactly is acquired during skill acquisition paper’ and ‘Direct Learning’
• Enrichment involves the design or a rich and varied range of experiences for the learners that will require them to adapt their movement behaviours. These experiences can range from ‘general’ to more ‘specific’ activities
• Enrichment can be understood as an ‘embedded approach’ to learning. It places emphasis on giving learners to opportunities to explore different solutions to achieve task goals in rich and varying environments.
• Constraint manipulation is very important to provide boundaries within learners can explore. There should be a focus on simplifying the tasks, making it easier while making sure that they key information is still present
• The CLA can be used to help promote the emergence of innovative and adaptive tactical behaviours
• Donor Sports should be integrated into teaching and coaching at all levels
• Putting too much focus on technique desensitises the perception and action systems in game play or unstructured environments

🥇Top Quotes

💡 In summary, learning involves constraints-induced synergy formation of physical literacy capacities (physical, cognitive, emotional, and perceptual) through exploration, invention and adaptation of action possibilities. 

💡 Practice task designs for learners in sport and physical activity need to be coherent, innovative and challenging in order to invite specific patterns of behavior through the coordinated activity of learners 

 💡 The key tenets of ecological dynamics, and its related principles of an NLP, are harmoniously aligned with ideas of a practitioner model of skills development and learning, such as the ASM 

 💡 Here, the central argument is that individuals become skillful by being exposed to a mix of non-specific and specific experiences, which support more functional capacities for later specialization in a specific target sport 

💡 Sport practitioners should aim to integrate donor sports, into teaching and coaching programs, at all levels, to exploit the sharing of foundational movement skills required for an athlete to perform well in a target sport. 

 💡 Evidence suggests that donor sports may also be beneficial for the development of psychological skills, such as problem solving; stress relief; self-efficacy and risk management

Here's a link to the full paper

Physical Literacy - A Journey of Individual Enrichment: An Ecological Dynamics Rationale for Enhancing Performance and Physical Activity in All (Rudd et al., 2020)

Finally here are my detailed Notion Notes if you'd like to take a deeper dive into the paper

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