Richard L Light
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 358660 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard L Light |
| PRENOMES | Richard L |
| SOBRENOME | Light |
| ASSINATURA | LIGHT R L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0085-704X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“Everything Plays a Part Doesn’t It?’’
Coach development is typically considered to consist of a complex mix of experiences, including formal, informal and non-formal. Elements of the early research in this area led to the production of a model of long-term coach development (LTCD) over a decade ago, consisting of three core categories of experience: athletic, coaching and education, later published in a number of significant coaching documents. Whilst this model has clearly been of b…
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement
Background: The development of movement capabilities in physical education is closely linked to questions about their educational value.Aims: This article extends the debate about the educational value of developing movement capabilities to include sport practised outside school. It interprets the educational value as a range of positive learning that is possible through the development of movement capabilities. It highlights the complexity of le…
Adolescent girls’ experiences of basketball in Australian and Japanese clubs
Despite recognition of the influence of social and cultural contexts on young people’s participation in youth sport, there are a limited number of studies that have identified how culture shapes the nature of participation and how it influences experience. This article reports on a study that inquired into what adolescent girls (13–16 years) enjoy about playing basketball in Japan and Australia and in which the cultural context emerged as a signi…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
Questioning for learning in game-based approaches to teaching and coaching
Despite the development of a wide body of literature suggesting the efficacy of game-based approaches (GBAs) to teaching and learning, GBAs have not yet been widely adopted by practitioners. A range of challenges face teachers and coaches taking up a GBA with two areas being of particular concern, which are: (1) the teacher’s ability to design practice games, analyze learning, and be able to make the necessary adjustments and (2) the effective us…
Teacher–student interaction, empathy and their influence on learning in swimming lessons
The bulk of interest in the role that interaction plays in learning in sport and physical education (PE) has focused on peer interaction at the expense of teacher–student interaction. This article redresses this imbalance in the literature by reporting on a study that inquired into the nature of teacher–student interaction and its effect on learning in PE swimming lessons in a French secondary school. Informed by an enactivist conceptualisation o…
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching
The literature suggests that, despite some challenges in their implementation, player/athlete-centred, inquiry-based approaches to teaching games and coaching team sport can improve game playing ability, increase player/athlete motivation and provide positive affective experiences of learning. A range of these approaches, including Teaching Games for Understanding, Game Sense, Play Practice and the Tactical-Decision Learning Model vary in detail …
Women's sport leadership styles as the result of interaction between feminine and masculine approaches
There is a growing body of research focusing on women in the business sector using a transformational model of leadership that identifies the ways in which they lead yet little is known about the style of leadership women practise in sport. In attempting to redress this oversight in the literature, this article draws on data from a larger study to identify how women practise leadership within a sporting context. It identifies the leadership style…
Revisiting ‘Sport and the maintenance of masculine hegemony’
In 1987, in her seminal paper ‘Sport and the Maintenance of Masculine Hegemony’, the Australian sociologist Lois Bryson described sport as ‘a crucial arena in which masculine hegemony is constructe
Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach
This article draws on Game Sense pedagogy and complex learning theory (CLT) to make suggestions for improving decision-making ability in team sports by adopting a holistic approach to coaching with a focus on decision-making ‘at-action’. It emphasizes the complexity of decision-making and the need to focus on the game as a whole entity, where players, individually and collectively, attempt to manage disorder in the face of an opposition. It rejec…
Dispositions of elite-level Australian rugby coaches towards game sense
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 structured their interpretation and use of the Game Sense approach to coaching to illustrate how habitus can be operationali…
Why children join and stay in sports clubs
This article builds upon research on youth sport clubs conducted from a socio-cultural perspective by reporting on a study that inquired into the reasons why children aged 9-12 joined swimming clubs in France, Germany and Australia. Comprising three case studies it employed a mixed method approach with results considered within the framework of Côté and colleagues' Development Model of Sport Participation (DMSP). It identifies the importance of p…
Children's Social and Personal Development Through Sport
Despite the prominence of swimming in Australia and the large numbers of children participating in it, no previous research has been conducted on what the implications of this might be for their social development. Indeed, there is a lack of empirical research conducted on the personal, moral, and social learning that arises from children's participation in sport. Building on research conducted on learning and the formation of identity in an Aust…
Soviet Students at U.S. Colleges
By Design
1. Why Do Research On Higher Education? Many Questions, Many Options Our Philosophy of Research Design How This Book is Organized 2. What Are Your Questions? Why Are Research Questions So Important? Getting Specific Building on the Work of Others Correlation versus Causation The Wheel of Science 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? Specifying the Target Population Where Should you Conduct the Study Selecting Your Sample More Than One Type of Resp…
Contemporary World Issues
U The academic writing needs of limited English proficiency (LEP) students have been difficult to define and problematic to address (Spack, 1988). Instructive practices borrowed from nativespeaker classrooms do not automatically solve the problems of the ESL student. In most writing classes, earlier pattern-centered approaches, such as controlled composition or the teaching of rhetorical patterns, have given way to process-centered approaches tha…
English Proficiency and Academic Performance of International Students
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is the most widely used measure to determine the extent to which international students have developed the English language skills necessary for successful college-level study in the United States and Canada; a number of studies have examined the relationship between TOEFL score and academic success. In the study reported in this article, the records of 376 international graduate students at the S…
Training Teachers Across Cultures
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Bilingual, Esol and Foreign Language Teacher Preparation
The Schools and the Minority Child's Language
Despite some progress, many schools continue to ignore or suppress the linguistic and cultural strengths which minority children bring with them to the classroom. We spend perhaps a billion dollars a year on foreign language instruction for Anglos, yet school policies and state laws have prevented some three million bilingual children from becoming adults fluent and literate in their own native foreign languages. Influential educators have called…
Teacher Training, Bilingual Education and Esol
Two recently enacted laws-the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) and the Bilingual Education Act-authorize support for programs which are of particular interest to the specialist in English as a second language. Both laws offer broad opportunities for helping people assist children who speak a first language other than English-the first through the training of persons involved in ESOL programs in the schools and the second by providing …
English for Speakers of Other Languages
Recent legislation has expanded considerably the opportunities for support of programs involving English for speakers of other languages which are administered by the U.S. Office of Education. In addition to the National Defense Education Act, both the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for example, support activities concerned with ESOL. Under the former act, an Experienced Teacher Fellowship Pro…
By Design
1. Why Do Research On Higher Education? Many Questions, Many Options Our Philosophy of Research Design How This Book is Organized 2. What Are Your Questions? Why Are Research Questions So Important? Getting Specific Building on the Work of Others Correlation versus Causation The Wheel of Science 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? Specifying the Target Population Where Should you Conduct the Study Selecting Your Sample More Than One Type of Resp…
Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching
The literature suggests that, despite some challenges in their implementation, player/athlete-centred, inquiry-based approaches to teaching games and coaching team sport can improve game playing ability, increase player/athlete motivation and provide positive affective experiences of learning. A range of these approaches, including Teaching Games for Understanding, Game Sense, Play Practice and the Tactical-Decision Learning Model vary in detail …
Children's Social and Personal Development Through Sport
Despite the prominence of swimming in Australia and the large numbers of children participating in it, no previous research has been conducted on what the implications of this might be for their social development. Indeed, there is a lack of empirical research conducted on the personal, moral, and social learning that arises from children's participation in sport. Building on research conducted on learning and the formation of identity in an Aust…
Why children join and stay in sports clubs
This article builds upon research on youth sport clubs conducted from a socio-cultural perspective by reporting on a study that inquired into the reasons why children aged 9-12 joined swimming clubs in France, Germany and Australia. Comprising three case studies it employed a mixed method approach with results considered within the framework of Côté and colleagues' Development Model of Sport Participation (DMSP). It identifies the importance of p…
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach
This article draws on Game Sense pedagogy and complex learning theory (CLT) to make suggestions for improving decision-making ability in team sports by adopting a holistic approach to coaching with a focus on decision-making ‘at-action’. It emphasizes the complexity of decision-making and the need to focus on the game as a whole entity, where players, individually and collectively, attempt to manage disorder in the face of an opposition. It rejec…
English Proficiency and Academic Performance of International Students
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is the most widely used measure to determine the extent to which international students have developed the English language skills necessary for successful college-level study in the United States and Canada; a number of studies have examined the relationship between TOEFL score and academic success. In the study reported in this article, the records of 376 international graduate students at the S…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
Teacher–student interaction, empathy and their influence on learning in swimming lessons
The bulk of interest in the role that interaction plays in learning in sport and physical education (PE) has focused on peer interaction at the expense of teacher–student interaction. This article redresses this imbalance in the literature by reporting on a study that inquired into the nature of teacher–student interaction and its effect on learning in PE swimming lessons in a French secondary school. Informed by an enactivist conceptualisation o…
Dispositions of elite-level Australian rugby coaches towards game sense
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 structured their interpretation and use of the Game Sense approach to coaching to illustrate how habitus can be operationali…
Training Teachers Across Cultures
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
English for Speakers of Other Languages
Recent legislation has expanded considerably the opportunities for support of programs involving English for speakers of other languages which are administered by the U.S. Office of Education. In addition to the National Defense Education Act, both the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, for example, support activities concerned with ESOL. Under the former act, an Experienced Teacher Fellowship Pro…
Teacher Training, Bilingual Education and Esol
Two recently enacted laws-the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) and the Bilingual Education Act-authorize support for programs which are of particular interest to the specialist in English as a second language. Both laws offer broad opportunities for helping people assist children who speak a first language other than English-the first through the training of persons involved in ESOL programs in the schools and the second by providing …
The Schools and the Minority Child's Language
Despite some progress, many schools continue to ignore or suppress the linguistic and cultural strengths which minority children bring with them to the classroom. We spend perhaps a billion dollars a year on foreign language instruction for Anglos, yet school policies and state laws have prevented some three million bilingual children from becoming adults fluent and literate in their own native foreign languages. Influential educators have called…
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Bilingual, Esol and Foreign Language Teacher Preparation
Training Teachers Across Cultures
English Proficiency and Academic Performance of International Students
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is the most widely used measure to determine the extent to which international students have developed the English language skills necessary for successful college-level study in the United States and Canada; a number of studies have examined the relationship between TOEFL score and academic success. In the study reported in this article, the records of 376 international graduate students at the S…
Contemporary World Issues
U The academic writing needs of limited English proficiency (LEP) students have been difficult to define and problematic to address (Spack, 1988). Instructive practices borrowed from nativespeaker classrooms do not automatically solve the problems of the ESL student. In most writing classes, earlier pattern-centered approaches, such as controlled composition or the teaching of rhetorical patterns, have given way to process-centered approaches tha…
Soviet Students at U.S. Colleges
By Design
1. Why Do Research On Higher Education? Many Questions, Many Options Our Philosophy of Research Design How This Book is Organized 2. What Are Your Questions? Why Are Research Questions So Important? Getting Specific Building on the Work of Others Correlation versus Causation The Wheel of Science 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? Specifying the Target Population Where Should you Conduct the Study Selecting Your Sample More Than One Type of Resp…
Children's Social and Personal Development Through Sport
Despite the prominence of swimming in Australia and the large numbers of children participating in it, no previous research has been conducted on what the implications of this might be for their social development. Indeed, there is a lack of empirical research conducted on the personal, moral, and social learning that arises from children's participation in sport. Building on research conducted on learning and the formation of identity in an Aust…
Dispositions of elite-level Australian rugby coaches towards game sense
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 structured their interpretation and use of the Game Sense approach to coaching to illustrate how habitus can be operationali…
Why children join and stay in sports clubs
This article builds upon research on youth sport clubs conducted from a socio-cultural perspective by reporting on a study that inquired into the reasons why children aged 9-12 joined swimming clubs in France, Germany and Australia. Comprising three case studies it employed a mixed method approach with results considered within the framework of Côté and colleagues' Development Model of Sport Participation (DMSP). It identifies the importance of p…
Women's sport leadership styles as the result of interaction between feminine and masculine approaches
There is a growing body of research focusing on women in the business sector using a transformational model of leadership that identifies the ways in which they lead yet little is known about the style of leadership women practise in sport. In attempting to redress this oversight in the literature, this article draws on data from a larger study to identify how women practise leadership within a sporting context. It identifies the leadership style…
Revisiting ‘Sport and the maintenance of masculine hegemony’
In 1987, in her seminal paper ‘Sport and the Maintenance of Masculine Hegemony’, the Australian sociologist Lois Bryson described sport as ‘a crucial arena in which masculine hegemony is constructe
Improving ‘at-action’ decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach
This article draws on Game Sense pedagogy and complex learning theory (CLT) to make suggestions for improving decision-making ability in team sports by adopting a holistic approach to coaching with a focus on decision-making ‘at-action’. It emphasizes the complexity of decision-making and the need to focus on the game as a whole entity, where players, individually and collectively, attempt to manage disorder in the face of an opposition. It rejec…
Questioning for learning in game-based approaches to teaching and coaching
Despite the development of a wide body of literature suggesting the efficacy of game-based approaches (GBAs) to teaching and learning, GBAs have not yet been widely adopted by practitioners. A range of challenges face teachers and coaches taking up a GBA with two areas being of particular concern, which are: (1) the teacher’s ability to design practice games, analyze learning, and be able to make the necessary adjustments and (2) the effective us…
Teacher–student interaction, empathy and their influence on learning in swimming lessons
The bulk of interest in the role that interaction plays in learning in sport and physical education (PE) has focused on peer interaction at the expense of teacher–student interaction. This article redresses this imbalance in the literature by reporting on a study that inquired into the nature of teacher–student interaction and its effect on learning in PE swimming lessons in a French secondary school. Informed by an enactivist conceptualisation o…
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching
The literature suggests that, despite some challenges in their implementation, player/athlete-centred, inquiry-based approaches to teaching games and coaching team sport can improve game playing ability, increase player/athlete motivation and provide positive affective experiences of learning. A range of these approaches, including Teaching Games for Understanding, Game Sense, Play Practice and the Tactical-Decision Learning Model vary in detail …
Adolescent girls’ experiences of basketball in Australian and Japanese clubs
Despite recognition of the influence of social and cultural contexts on young people’s participation in youth sport, there are a limited number of studies that have identified how culture shapes the nature of participation and how it influences experience. This article reports on a study that inquired into what adolescent girls (13–16 years) enjoy about playing basketball in Japan and Australia and in which the cultural context emerged as a signi…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement
Background: The development of movement capabilities in physical education is closely linked to questions about their educational value.Aims: This article extends the debate about the educational value of developing movement capabilities to include sport practised outside school. It interprets the educational value as a range of positive learning that is possible through the development of movement capabilities. It highlights the complexity of le…
“Everything Plays a Part Doesn’t It?’’
Coach development is typically considered to consist of a complex mix of experiences, including formal, informal and non-formal. Elements of the early research in this area led to the production of a model of long-term coach development (LTCD) over a decade ago, consisting of three core categories of experience: athletic, coaching and education, later published in a number of significant coaching documents. Whilst this model has clearly been of b…
Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Mathematics education (8 obras) · Sport Psychology and Performance (8 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras)