Chris Button
Biographic Data
| ID | 1465476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Button |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Button |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1158-8244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conceptualisation of motor skill transfer in water safety education
The question of how well motor skills transfer between contexts and environments is critical for water safety education. In particular, it remains unclear to what extent learning aquatic skills in a swimming pool supports performance in more variable, open water environments. We explored how skill transfer has been conceptualised, manipulated, and measured within water safety research. We anticipated that the water safety literature would be broa…
An investigation on Singapore PE Teachers’ knowledge and practice about teaching and learning from an Ecological Dynamics perspective
International audience
Advice from “pracademics” of how to apply ecological dynamics theory to practice design
There has been an increase interest in knowing and enacting pedagogical approaches such as the Constraints-led Approach (CLA) and Nonlinear Pedagogy (NLP) which are underpinned by Ecological Dynamics in recent years among practitioners. While there seems to be a perceived uptake of such pedagogical approaches that encourages exploratory learning and the development of individualised movement solutions, there are still concerns on how these pedago…
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking
Crawling experience was recently linked to crawling and walking infants’ avoidance of falling on real and water cliffs, whereas walking experience had no effect on walkers’ avoidance behavior (Burnay et al., 2021). In the current study, the behavior of 25 infants was analyzed on the Real Cliff/Water Cliff apparatus using a longitudinal study design. Infants were tested as experienced crawlers ( M crawling = 2.93 months, SD = 1.07), novice walkers…
The Poor “Wealth” of Brazilian Football
Worldwide, 1.3 billion people live in Poverty , a socio-economic status that has been identified as a key determinant of a lack of sports participation. Still, numerous athletes around the world have grown up in underprivileged socio-economic conditions. This is the case in Brazil, a country with around 13.5 million impoverished citizens, yet, over decades, many of its best professional footballers have emerged from its favelas. In this article, …
Adaptability in Swimming Pattern
The objectives of this study were to identify how spatiotemporal, kinetic, and kinematic parameters could (i) characterize swimmers' adaptability to different swimming speeds and (ii) discriminate expertise level among swimmers. Twenty male participants, grouped into (a) low-, (b) medium-, and (c) high-expertise levels, swam at four different swim paces of 70, 80, 90% (for 20 s), and 100% (for 10 s) of their maximal speed in a swimming flume. We …
Education and transfer of water competencies
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…
Possibilities and implications of using a motion-tracking system in physical education
Advances in technology have created new opportunities for enhanced delivery of teaching to improve the acquisition of game skills in physical education (PE). The availability of a motion-tracking system (i.e. the A-Eye), which determines positional information of students in a practice context, might offer a suitable technology to support pedagogical approaches in the teaching of movement skills in game situations. This paper explores the possibi…
Adaptability in Swimming Pattern
The objectives of this study were to identify how spatiotemporal, kinetic, and kinematic parameters could (i) characterize swimmers' adaptability to different swimming speeds and (ii) discriminate expertise level among swimmers. Twenty male participants, grouped into (a) low-, (b) medium-, and (c) high-expertise levels, swam at four different swim paces of 70, 80, 90% (for 20 s), and 100% (for 10 s) of their maximal speed in a swimming flume. We …
Education and transfer of water competencies
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…
Possibilities and implications of using a motion-tracking system in physical education
Advances in technology have created new opportunities for enhanced delivery of teaching to improve the acquisition of game skills in physical education (PE). The availability of a motion-tracking system (i.e. the A-Eye), which determines positional information of students in a practice context, might offer a suitable technology to support pedagogical approaches in the teaching of movement skills in game situations. This paper explores the possibi…
Education and transfer of water competencies
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…
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking
Crawling experience was recently linked to crawling and walking infants’ avoidance of falling on real and water cliffs, whereas walking experience had no effect on walkers’ avoidance behavior (Burnay et al., 2021). In the current study, the behavior of 25 infants was analyzed on the Real Cliff/Water Cliff apparatus using a longitudinal study design. Infants were tested as experienced crawlers ( M crawling = 2.93 months, SD = 1.07), novice walkers…
The Poor “Wealth” of Brazilian Football
Worldwide, 1.3 billion people live in Poverty , a socio-economic status that has been identified as a key determinant of a lack of sports participation. Still, numerous athletes around the world have grown up in underprivileged socio-economic conditions. This is the case in Brazil, a country with around 13.5 million impoverished citizens, yet, over decades, many of its best professional footballers have emerged from its favelas. In this article, …
Adaptability in Swimming Pattern
The objectives of this study were to identify how spatiotemporal, kinetic, and kinematic parameters could (i) characterize swimmers' adaptability to different swimming speeds and (ii) discriminate expertise level among swimmers. Twenty male participants, grouped into (a) low-, (b) medium-, and (c) high-expertise levels, swam at four different swim paces of 70, 80, 90% (for 20 s), and 100% (for 10 s) of their maximal speed in a swimming flume. We …
Advice from “pracademics” of how to apply ecological dynamics theory to practice design
There has been an increase interest in knowing and enacting pedagogical approaches such as the Constraints-led Approach (CLA) and Nonlinear Pedagogy (NLP) which are underpinned by Ecological Dynamics in recent years among practitioners. While there seems to be a perceived uptake of such pedagogical approaches that encourages exploratory learning and the development of individualised movement solutions, there are still concerns on how these pedago…
An investigation on Singapore PE Teachers’ knowledge and practice about teaching and learning from an Ecological Dynamics perspective
International audience
Conceptualisation of motor skill transfer in water safety education
The question of how well motor skills transfer between contexts and environments is critical for water safety education. In particular, it remains unclear to what extent learning aquatic skills in a swimming pool supports performance in more variable, open water environments. We explored how skill transfer has been conceptualised, manipulated, and measured within water safety research. We anticipated that the water safety literature would be broa…
Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Biology (2 works)