A joint partnership between Norwegian School of Sport Science and Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Place and dates

A hybrid symposium at NTNU campus Kalvskinnet Trondheim, Norway. 
29–30 September 2022. You will find the rooms in the program, and the zoom link will be sent to you when registered.

The symposium is free.

Topic and aim

This two-day symposium will explore contemporary ideas and approaches to movement, learning and pedagogy, and to water competence. Leading academics will offer a transdisciplinary narrative on how an ecological world view can help us enrich environments in order to create individuals who are attentive to the environments that they are navigating. To help achieve our educational and developmental goals, we will invite the audience to listen to us and discuss with us how we can shape contemporary pedagogies so that learners are well placed to tackle the many challenges we face in the 21st century about movement, learning and pedagogy. 

Program (tentative)

Day I: Thursday 29 September: Theoretical positions and perspectives of movement, learning & pedagogy

Room: Akrinn Øst (Sverres gate 10): A136

09.30–09.45 Welcome address from organizing committee

09.45–10.15 Opening presentation - Keith Davids (Sheffield Hallam University, UK/NTNU ILU, Norway): “How Ecological Dynamics is shaping contemporary thinking in Movement, Learning and Pedagogy: Implications for research and practice.”

10.15–11.00 Jia Yi Chow (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): “Quantifying Nonlinearity in practice from a Nonlinear Pedagogy Perspective.”

11.00–11.15 Coffee break

11.15–12.00 Patricia Coutinho (University of Porto, Portugal) (online): “Multisports, informal play and contemporary approaches to learning”.

12.00–13.00 Lunch

13.00–13.30 James Rudd (Norwegian School of Sport Science, Norway): “Exploration and skill adaptation: two important pedagogical concepts for movement learning in children's early physical education experience.

13.30–14.00 Tore Kristian Aune (Nord University, Norway): “The specificity of the specificity principle in motor learning – does it reject variability?"

14.00–14.15 Coffee break

14.15 – 14.45 Håvard Lorås and Øyvind Bjerke (NTNU, ILU): “Nonlinear pedagogy in PE teacher education”

14.45 – 15.15 Plenary discussions and conversations (Davids, Rudd, Chow, Aune, Coutinho) Moderator Bjerke

15.15–15.30 Closing words – James Rudd (NSSS, Norway)

Social meeting at the pub Øx in the evening

Day II: Friday 30 September: Theory and applied research towards water competence (Suhm-huset)

09.15–09.45 Chris Button (online) (University of Otago, New Zealand): “How Representing Affordance Waterscapes can Progress the Journey to Water Competence”

09.45–10.15 Tina van Dujin (University of Otago, New Zealand): "Learning and assessment of aquatic skills in different environments"

10.15 Coffee break

10.30–11.00 Ludovic Seifert (Université de Rouen, France): “Decision making and Water skills transfer between different aquatic environments” 

11.00–11.15 Egil Gjølme (NTNU, ILU, Norway): "Water competence in Norwegian PE”

11.15–12.45 Outdoor lunch and practical demonstration of Water competence (Elvegata)

12.45–13.05 Monika Haga/Jon Sundan (NTNU, ILU, Norway): “The swimming skill assessment scale (SSAS): Measuring children’s actual and perceived swimming skills based on the Norwegian PE curriculum”

13.05–13.25 Brice Guignard (Université de Rouen, France): “Emergent motor adaptations in a swimming flume in comparison to a classic swimming pool”

13.25–14.00 Plenary discussions and conversations (Tina van Dujin, Ludovic Seifert, Egil Gjølme, Jon Sundan, Brice Guignard) Monika Haga

14.00–14.15 Closing words and future directions – Keith Davids (Sheffield Hallam University, UK/NTNU ILU, Norway).

Speakers

Tore Kristian Aune

Tore Kristian Aune is Associate Professor at Nord University, Norway. His research interests are within motor control and learning, and especially within transfer of learning and specificity guided by his background from a dynamical systems theory. 
 

Keith Davids

Keith Davids is a Professor of Motor Learning in Sport & Human Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and as Professor 2 at the section of physical education at NTNU. His research investigates skill acquisition, expertise, and talent development in sports at different levels of participation from recreational to elite, underpinned by the theoretical framework of Ecological dynamics. 

Jia Yi Chow

Jia Yi Chow is the Associate Dean, Programme and Student Development, with the Office of Teacher Education (OTE), Singapore. His research interests include examining multi-articular coordination from an Ecological Dynamics perspective, including visual perception in sports expertise, and in a pedagogical approach related to nonlinear pedagogy.

James Rudd

James Rudd is Professor at Norwegian School of Sport Science, Norway. His research interests are in the areas of pedagogy, child development and motor learning. He explores these areas largely guided by the Ecological dynamics.

Patricia Coutinho

Patricia Coutinho is Assistant professor at the faculty of Sports in Porto. Her research interests are mainly volleyball and team sport using a constraint-led approach. 

Håvard Lorås

Håvard Lorås is a Professor in physical education and sport at the Institute of teacher education, NTNU. His research interests are mainly within motor learning, skill acquisition and discovery learning and pedagogy using the Ecological dynamics perspective.

Øyvind Bjerke

Øyvind Bjerke is an Associate professor in physical education and sport at the teacher education, NTNU. His research areas are mainly within pedagogy, teacher education, motor learning and relative age effects using a constraint-led perspective.

Chris Button

Dean of the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences in Otago, New Zealand. His research has concerned the use of technology to aid skill acquisition, but also on how to increase water competence among the residents of New Zealand. The aim is to understand complex issues and risk factors to help policy makers and practitioners in their work to prevent drowning and water-related accidents.

Ludovic Seifert

Ludovic Seifert is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at University of Rouen in France. His research focuses on the acquisition of complex skills (e.g., swimming), dealing with the dynamics of motor learning, following an approach of ecological dynamics framework. 

Tina van Dujin

PostDoc Position at University of Otago. Her expertise is within the fields of cognitive psychology, skill acquisition, motor learning and water safety. She is currently conducting research on CPR, first aid education and learning of aquatic movement. 

Egil Galaaen Gjølme

Associate Professor in Sports and Physical Education at NTNU. His research mainly focuses on water competence, educational leadership, outdoor education and didactics. 

Brice Guignard

Brice Guignard is Assistant professor at Université de Rouen in France. His research interests are within biomechanics in human movement, especially using swimming as an example.

Jon Sundan

PhD Candidate in Physical Education, Department of Teacher Education at NTNU. His research aims to investigate the correlation between children’s swimming skills in indoor and outdoor environments and conduct unique data on the swimming abilities of Norwegian children through his project.

Monika Haga

Professor of Physical Education and Sports at NTNU. Monika works within the disciplines of teacher education, physiotherapy, and developmental psychology. With expertise within physical fitness, motor activity, motor competence, and child development.