Background: Small-Sided and Conditioned Games are characterised by modifications of
field dimensions, number of players, rules of the game, manipulations used to shape the key …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

This critical review considers the epistemological and historical background of the
theoretical construct of motor learning for a more differentiated understanding. More than …

This is an upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook for courses in human movement
and skill acquisition. A professional reference for movement practitioners and scientists …

Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for
designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and …

Egon Brunswik proposed the concept of “representative design” for psychological
experimentation, which has historically been overlooked or confused with another of …

Background: In order to design appropriate environments for performance and learning of
movement skills, physical educators need a sound theoretical model of the learner and of …

Research on expertise, talent identification and development has tended to be mono-
disciplinary, typically adopting genocentric or environmentalist positions, with an overriding …

Background: There are deeply relevant questions concerning how to integrate and organise
various nonlinear pedagogical strategies and methods in order to structure training in the …

Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines,
established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re) produce valued …