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The Influence of Early Life Experiences on English and Australian Super League Coaches' Learning
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Holmes, Pete; Light, Richard L.; Sparkes, Andrew – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This article focuses on the influence of early life experiences and socio-cultural context on coach learning in the sport of rugby league. It draws on the findings of a study that investigated the influence of cultural context on the development of elite-level rugby league coaches in England and Australia. The article focuses on the influence of…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Sociocultural Patterns, Team Sports, Athletic Coaches
Pedagogies for Sustainability: Insights from a Foundational Sustainability Course in the Built Environment
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Sandri, Orana; Holdsworth, Sarah – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on an in-depth qualitative case study of an undergraduate sustainability education course to show the extent of pedagogical reflection and teaching capability demonstrated in lived practice to support transformative, systemic and capability building learning processes, as advocated in the literature, for effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Case Studies, Transformative Learning
Agency and Hysteresis Encounters: Understanding the International Education Experiences of Japanese Students in Australian Universities
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Matsunaga, Kaoru; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
There has been increasing attention given to the notion that international education consists of non-linear and multi-directional transmissive exchanges between existing institutional academic conditions and international students. Despite the role of international students' agency being paramount, there is a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
Dispositions of Elite-Level Australian Rugby Coaches towards Game Sense: Characteristics of Their Coaching Habitus
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Light, Richard L.; Evans, John Robert – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
Bourdieu's analytic concept of "habitus" has provided a valuable means of theorising coach development but is yet to be operationalised in empirical research. This article redresses this oversight by drawing on a larger study that inquired into how the "coaching 'habitus'" of elite-level Australian and New Zealand rugby coaches…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Foreign Countries
Learning about Learning in Knowledge-Intense Organizations
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Dovey, Ken; White, Richard – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: This paper describes and analyses an attempt to engage in transformational learning, oriented to the development of a culture of innovation, at a medium-size software development organization in Australia. Design/methodology/approach: An action research methodology was used whereby continuous cycles of strategic social learning were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Learning Processes, Innovation
Education, Equality, and Social Cohesion: A Distributional Approach.
Green, Andy; Preston, John; Sabates, Ricardo – Compare, 2003
Distinguishes social capital from societal cohesion. Argues that education acts in different ways for each. Develops a distributional model showing the relationship between equality of educational outcomes and various measures of social cohesion. Discusses theories explaining country trends and variations in educational inequality and social…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Pluralism