Teaching Games with Inner Sense: Exploring Movement Consciousness in Women's Volleyball
Keywords:
Sensations of Movement, Body Awareness, Perception, Sport PedagogyAbstract
The intention of this phenomenological inquiry was to explore movement consciousness within the realm of games and sport pedagogy. Situated within the context of a women’s volleyball team who regularly received technical, externally oriented coaching on skill development and tactical plays, questions of what is it like to become aware of internal bodily sensations of breath, balance and rhythm were explored. Players responded favorably to the kinaesthetic intervention as they described improvements in skill performance and feelings of connection to teammates. The most significant contribution of this inquiry is that it provides evidence for furthering research into a model of games pedagogy that aims to dissolve socially constructed boundaries between the mechanics of the external body and the inner sensations of movement, hence, a model that attends to teaching games with inner sense.
Cette recherche phénoménologique avait pour but d’explorer la conscience du mouvement dans un contexte de jeux et de pédagogie sportive. Située dans le contexte d’une équipe féminine de volleyball où l’entraînement et le perfectionnement des habiletés techniques et tactiques étaient le plus souvent menés et dirigés par des ressources externes (réactions de l’entraîneur, activité réussie ou non, environnement) nous avons exploré diverses questions touchant les sensations corporelles internes telles la respiration, l’équilibre et le rythme. Les joueuses ont réagi positivement à l’intervention kinesthésique, ayant constaté des améliorations au niveau des habiletés et du rendement et une plus grande connexion avec leurs coéquipières. La plus importante contribution de la recherche tient au fait qu’elle fournit des données probantes justifiant des recherches plus poussées sur un modèle de pédagogie du jeu qui vise à faire éclater les frontières constuites socialement entre la mécanique du corps externe et la sensation interne de mouvement, c’est-à-dire un modèle d’enseignement du jeu qui met l’accent sur les sensations corporelles internes.
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