This is the last week of the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra.
I have enlisted some YouTube assistance to explore the personal development pathway theme.
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It was fascinating to learn about the publication of Frank Stillwell’s diaries last week.
The title of the Diaries is Still No Mawson: Frank Stillwell’s Antarctic Diaries 1911-13.
Frank was 23 years of age when he joined the Mawson expedition.
Bernadette Hince found his diaries in the archives of the Australian Academy of Science. Back in 2005 she wrote that:
Stillwell wrote almost daily, with occasional blank dates on days when he spent his spare time collecting and preparing a penguin skin, or gathering penguin eggs for cooking (over one three-week period, the men got some two and a half thousand eggs). Even on sledging journeys, he carried a small notebook and recorded the day’s events.
She adds that Frank Stillwell’s diaries:
are part of the most famous Australian journey of polar exploration and are of immense interest, both for the spine-chilling record of the weeks spent waiting for Mawson’s return, and for the detailed account of the domestic life of a group of young Australian men in an Antarctica hut, nearly a century ago.
There was a delightful serendipity in hearing of the publication of the Diaries.
Students in the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra have been compiling their e-portfolios over the fourteen weeks of the Semester.
I pondered on the circumstances of these e-portfolios being developed and wondered if any of our students experienced what Frank did a century ago:
He and two companions were almost asphyxiated by carbon monoxide when they were staying in a snow shelter when they were out on a sledging trip. And it was only because one of the men realised in time what was happening and put his ice axe through the roof and made a small hole that they all blacked out then but they came to again.
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The third Billy Cart Derby was held in Braidwood last Sunday.
I have written about the previous two events here.
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Robin Poke presented his PhD confirmation seminar at the University of Canberra today.
Robin is researching A Sociocultural History of Australian Rowing.
A copy of his presentation can be found here Confirmation Seminar.
Robin outlined his passionate interest in rowing and drew upon over forty years of involvement in the sport to do so.
Robin’s Masters’ thesis explored the life of Peter Antonie. For his PhD he will look at the development of rowing in Australia from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Robin anticipates that his research will lead him to investigate three eras in rowing:
- Professional/Artisan
- Amateur/Elitist
- Semi-professional/Government-funded
It will involve exploring the interaction of heritage, status, class and gender in Australian sporting culture as it relates to rowing in particular.
I liked Robin’s use of quotations from Daniel Bertaux:
We must discover the forms of discourse through which elements of knowledge about socio-historical processes will find their way into living cultures and thus, coming to public life, become at last common knowledge
and Michael Cathcart:
…history is not one, long continuous story that is told over and over … history is a conversation. And we don’t have a fully-fleshed historical culture until we let that conversation rip … Our history needs to be a library … full of stories told by people of all walks of life … and the result won’t be chaos: it will be a rich sense of who we are and what we might become. (My emphasis.)
I am looking forward to my conversation with Robin as one of his supervisors. Greg Battye is the principal supervisor on this PhD panel.
The Seminar coincided with the publication of Olympic Gold: Our Greatest Individual Olympians Since 1896 edited by Robin and Kevin Berry.
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I have been walking past Room 12B48 at the University of Canberra for the last few months.
The University has been re-numbering rooms in Building 12 and has put up temporary signs.
To my absolute delight Room 12B48 was listed as Anthropoemtry.
I am hoping that it might become Anthropoetics. Like John Van Maanen I think “we need more, not fewer ways, to tell of culture”.
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We are in the penultimate week of the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra.
This week’s presentation looks at teaching and coaching as occupations and vocations.
I am hopeful that some of the themes that we have been exploring throughout the unit come together here as we consider the impetus to teach and coach.
My thinking about vocation has been informed by Max Weber’s work.
In the presentation I use references from Max Weber, Steven Johnson, Hian Koh and Larry Killough, Chris Cushion, Kathy Armour and Robyn Jones, Lawrie Woodman, Melissa Wiman, Alan Salmoni and Craig Hall, Virpi Heikkila, Satu Uusiautti and Kaarina Maatta.
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One of the joys of my week is my Tuesday car journey to and from Canberra with my daughter Beth.
Beth is a tutor on the Introduction to Sociology course at the Australian National University this semester.
We talk about many things, often prompted by the course content Beth is covering and what is happening in my Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit at the University of Canberra.
This week we talked a lot about supporting student learning and our conversation moved to exceptional students.
Beth talked eloquently about one of her friends, whom she regarded as remarkable, and I was struck by Beth’s understanding and constructs of exceptional performance.
Beth pointed me to two sources of information to help me reflect on the ideas she was sharing.
The first was Young People Without Borders:
Young People Without Borders is a movement of young people who have the courage, imagination and will to make a difference. It’s the ultimate journey of discovery for you to explore, learn, get amongst it and give back to the world.
I liked the idea that young people without borders could become Trailblazers and could Start a remarkable journey. On my journey I have learned more about the Foundation for Young Australians and Jan Owens’ work.
The second link was to Amna Karra-Hassan and the Auburn Tigers AFL team.
At 23 years of age, Amna played a lead role in the establishment of the new women’s AFL team, the Auburn Tigers. She is also an active ambassador for the rights of Muslim women, and is a positive role model and mentor for young people.
The Auburn Tigers largely consists of women from minority communities in western Sydney. Amna’s role in the team, as a mentor as well as a friend, is to guide and support these young women in the right direction and to teach them important life skills.
In an interview in The Australian, Amna pointed out that most of the players in the Tigers are of Lebanese background but there is a Fijian, a Bosnian, a Turkish and an Afghan … and an Anglo.
Beth’s friend is the Anglo! The story of her engagement with the Tigers illustrates how a remarkable woman met other remarkable women … beyond borders.
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