Reading / writing / College sports



Dr. J. Michael Rifenburg
University of North Georgia
@jmrifenburg

My study

A decade long journey across Auburn, Oklahoma, and the University of North Georgia 

Following my wonder in student-athlete writing practices

&

Following my belief that students write a lot out of class and bring these experiences to the classroom

End result

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my focus


Section I: Knowing our student-athletes

&

Section II: Teaching our student-athletes






Section II


Teaching our student-athletes


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My wonder


How does Chris Faulkner teach these plays?



How do his players learn plays?


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UNG Men's Basketball team



Players learn through 


spatial orientation
scaffolded situations 
haptic communication

haptic communication


 ancient Greek 

πτικός able to come into contact with, of or relating to the sense of touch 


πτειν to fasten


touch / feel / coordinating you & me / feel over sight


an action












T. J. Williams

"I feel like that happens sometimes because like when [another player] moves, you know that the spot that they just moved from is where you are supposed to be or in the general area. 


Like if someone is near me I will be like ‘Oh, crap, I gotta set a screen for them.’ I feel like that happens sometimes. Because the speed of the game sometimes you might call something and be like ‘uh’ and taking a minute and then you go right into it.” 

The embodied playbook


"The most athletic guys learn by doing. They don't learn by looking at it on a playbook or looking at it drawn up on a whiteboard" head coach Chris Faulkner




"[Running a play] is more muscle-memory-it. You hear the play , and it triggers something in you and you go" senior guard Travis Core

and if it goes wrong


not flowing with the team

&

not flowing in a writing class

a story of Kris

What's missing


The NCAA
Athletics departments
NCAA Sports and Sponsorship Demographics Report
Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement
National Federation of State High School Associations
National Intramural-Recreation Association
Theory
Race
Power dynamics
Economics

But


I wonder what our students bring to us

And I believe that we work with students to 

write
&
read
&
learn
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