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Charles, Richard, Neil and Simon: the stories we craft
Tom Fenton and Rob Carroll have published a story about Charles Reep (link). It is titled Football’s Pioneer – The Charles Reep story.
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The skills we learn
We spend much of our time hearing, sharing and telling stories.
When I met a physical education teacher called Steve and his pupil Anush...
If you had 53 minutes +
Introduction
If you do have 53 minutes and would like to learn more about writing then I recommend this Steven Pinker video.
https://youtu.be/OV5J6BfToSw
The + in the...
#coachlearninginsport: our game?
Introduction
The word happenchance delights me. It brings together coincidence, serendipity and synchronicity for me.
Some time ago, I came across Seth Baker’s approach to Happenchance:
Happenchance...
Authentic Insights
Introduction
Peter Berger, in his invitation to sociology (1963), wrote about "the curiosity that grips any sociologist in front of a closed door behind which...
What Counts?
Introduction
I have been thinking about Darrell Cobner's most recent post (13 September) on the Visual Performance Analysis blog.
In the post Darrell asks “Any performance...
Anthropoemtry
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...
Of Personal Experience and Research Questions
Last December I posted an extract from my PhD thesis.
In this post I share my introduction to the thesis (written in 1989). I do...
Do People Who Have Lost Their Voice Have To Do It?
Introduction
I undertook three years of fieldwork in two schools in the mid 1980s as part of my part-time PhD studies in the teaching of...
Speaking About Performance: Hearing Other Narratives
Back in 1988 Donald Polkinghorne produced the delightful book Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences. In his preface to the book he observes that...