Education and Transfer of Water Competencies: An Ecological Dynamics Approach

Autor/inn/en	Guignard, Brice; Button, Chris; Davids, Keith; Seifert, Ludovic
Titel	Education and Transfer of Water Competencies: An Ecological Dynamics Approach
Quelle	In: European Physical Education Review, 26 (2020) 4, S.938-953 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Guignard, Brice)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X
DOI	10.1177/1356336X20902172
Schlagwörter	Aquatic Sports; Water; Competence; Psychomotor Skills; Physical Education; Teaching Methods; Transfer of Training; Skill Development; Physical Education Teachers; Accident Prevention; Safety + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Water sports; Water sport; Wassersport; Wasser; Kompetenz; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Accident statistics; Unfall; Statistik; Unfallstatistik; Sicherheit
Abstract	To cope in various aquatic environments (i.e. swimming pools, lakes, rivers, oceans), learners require a wide repertoire of self-regulatory behaviours such as awareness of obstacles and water properties, floating and moving from point to point with different strokes, decision making, emotional control and breathing efficiently. By experiencing different learning situations in stable indoor pool environments, it is assumed that children strengthen aquatic competencies that should be transferable to functioning in open water environments, where prevalence of drowning is high. However, this fundamental assumption may be misleading. Here, we propose the application of a clear, related methodology and theoretical framework that could be useful to help physical education curriculum specialists (re)shape and (re)design appropriate aquatic learning situations to facilitate better transfer of learning. We discuss the need for more representativeness in a learning environment, proposing how the many different task and environmental constraints on aquatic actions may bound the emergence of functional, self-regulatory behaviours in learners. Ideas in ecological dynamics suggest that physical educators should design learning environments that offer a rich landscape of opportunities for action for learners. As illustration, three practice interventions are described for developing functional and transferrable skills in indoor aquatic environments. It is important that aquatic educators focus not just upon 'learning to swim', but particularly on relevant transferable skills and self-regulatory behaviours deemed necessary for functioning in dynamic, outdoor aquatic environments. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01