Podcasts about positive pedagogy

This episode is based on my interview with Dean Renee Middleton for the "Book Talks with the Dean" series in the Patton College of Education here at Ohio University. We talk about the concept of Positive Pedagogy, the content of the second edition of the Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching book, how it extended the work of the first edition of the book and some areas of continued development for the series. If you want to watch the interview on YouTube, please follow the link here: I want to thank Dean Middleton for taking the time to speak with me about the book, and also to the marketing department in the Patton College for capturing and producing a video of the talk (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xbVT7G9hA&t=5s).

In this episode, I gathered together some 'soundbites' from Ohio University Masters in Coaching Education Students who had just spent a week on campus and six weeks prior to that learning about the features of Positive Pedagogy, At the end of the podcast I also get into a short discussion with Richard Light and Nick Hill, who have both previously been on the podcast about their thoughts about the week, too. These recordings were completed in the cafeteria so I apologize in advance if there is too much background noise but I think its worth it when listening to the student and faculty reflections. Students from Ohio University's Masters in Coaching Education program who participated are: Geoff Barry (football) Nicole Brown (soccer) Aliou Diallo (soccer) Jame Langham (football) Kent Lupton (basketball) Chris Nelson (ultimate frisbee) Derwoyne Redmond (football and basketball) Terence Wright (football)

In this episode I am joined by Professor Richard Light, the founder of Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching. Professor Light works at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His early work was in the sociology of sport with a focus on culture and embodied learning but over the past decade he has drawn on this work to inform a distinctive program of research focused on a socio-cultural approach to pedagogy and on the body's role in learning. He draws on learning theory and some social theory to inform this work. Professor Light has a broad background in teaching and coaching across a wide range of cultures, having coached and taught in Australia and Japan and having held academic positions in Japan, France, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. This background encourages him to establish a dialectic between practice and theory that is a feature of his research and his teaching. He enjoys a strong international profile, is widely published and has published in Japanese, Portuguese and French as well as English. You can contact Richard on Twitter at @richardlight11 or via email: richard.light@canterbury.ac.uk (work) or richardlight11@gmail.com (personal).

Charles Schultz first coached as a college athlete at summer baseball camps and at Pickerington High School Central, Ohio, USA, from 2015. He is now a local gym owner and varsity assistant coach for softball in Pickerington. His positive experiences of athlete-centred coaching in elementary school basketball and high school baseball led him to work on making his own coaching athlete centered with his enrollment in a master’s-level coaching program at Ohio University helping him develop a Positive Pedagogy approach to coaching team sports and strength and conditioning. You can contact Charles at charles.schultz7@gmail.com, on Twitter @Coach_Schultz, and on Instragram @superfitohio.

In this episode, I talk with Laura Costa Dos Santos who is currently an Assistant Volleyball Coach at Ohio University. Laura graduated with a masters in coaching education from Ohio University in 2018 after previously playing volleyball at the University of Illinois and working as a coach at Oregon State University and Bowling Green State University. Laura, who is certified by the Women's Coaches Academy, speaks enthusiastically about the application of Positive Pedagogy and a game-based approach to coaching in both youth and collegiate volleyball settings. Laura recently authored a chapter for the up and coming text on Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching on her experiences applying Positive Pedagogy in her youth volleyball coaching, which is due out in May. You can contact Laura via email at: lc670817@ohio.edu and follow her on Twitter @coachsantos18.

This episode discusses a collaborative action research project with Dr. Pill and an Australian Rules Football Coach who enacted a Game Sense Approach to his coaching. The podcast explains what Game Sense is (similar but different from TGfU and Tactical Games) and discusses coaching, and the crossover that teachers can have while implementing these approaches into a PE setting. Shane Pill (@Pilly66) is an Associate Professor at Flinders University in Adelaide Australia. Shane is the author of six books on the concept of Play with Purpose using a Game Sense approach for PE teaching and sport coaching. He has also published the text Perspectives on Athlete Centred Coaching. Shane was a major contributing writer to the Cricket Australia S'Cool Cricket resource, the Tennis Australia game-based Primary and Secondary Schools Tennis resources, and the revised AFL Sport Education program. He has published over 100 scholarly and academic papers, and is an internationally popular speaker and workshop presenter. https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/shane.pill You can access the Paper Here: http://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/23806/1/AEFD-2016-1-implementing-game-sense.pdf Stephen Harvey (@drstephenharvey)'s podcast can be found on iTunes and also here https://anchor.fm/stephen-harvey1 It's called "Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching

In this brief introduction to the Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching Podcast, I explain what Positive Pedagogy is, why it's an important consideration for coaches, and how it works.