Positive Pedagogy in Cricket Coaching

2015

Professional philosophy in sport coaching directly impacts coach behavior in practice and competitions. The coaching effectiveness in enhancing athlete performance, stimulating the individual and team potential, and supporting athlete personal growth changes across coaches’ professional careers. Such changes are frequently grounded in information from other sister disciplines that support the world of sport, such as, sport psychology. In this article, we discuss the perspective of positive sport (PS) and present a number of practical principles for coaches’ consideration. These principles were grouped together into catchy phrases as follows: inspire (inspiruj), explain (wyjaśniaj), expect (wymagaj), support (wspieraj), reward (wynagradzaj), appreciate (wyrozniaj), grow (wzrastam) and win (wygrywam) (in short: i7W). These recommendations deal with four time perspectives: one task, one training session/competition, one season, and an entire athletic career. For the development of the ...

This study aimed to investigate voluntary cricket coaches’ use, knowledge and understanding of verbal feedback. The coaches’ feedback behaviours were identified using a modified version of the Coach Analysis and Intervention System (CAIS). Supplementary field notes were employed alongside CAIS to contextualise the coaches’ use of verbal feedback. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore each coach’s knowledge and understanding of verbal feedback. The behavioural results showed that all the coaches used General Feedback Positive the most, providing verbal feedback predominantly ‘concurrently’, and mainly towards ‘individuals’. The interviews revealed that the coaches’ knowledge and understanding of verbal feedback derived from past experiences as athletes and observing other coaches.

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This paper reports on the perceptions of effective coaching based on interviews with male professional coaches and players from cricket, rugby league, and rugby union in Australia. It is part of a larger research project into effective coaching in professional sport where the coach's philosophy reflected a key ingredient of a coach's perceived effectiveness. The findings from the current study show that coaches in these professional settings develop programs to assist players in acquiring on-and off-field skills. In addition to this, there is a tendency to focus on learning and improvement as opposed to a win-at-all-costs attitude. These philosophies highlight elements of a Humanistic approach to coaching which focuses on the total development of the person.