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
my focus
Section I: Knowing our student-athletes
&
Section II: Teaching our student-athletes
Section II
Teaching our student-athletes
My wonder
How does Chris Faulkner teach these plays?
How do his players learn plays?
P
UNG Men's Basketball team
Players learn through
spatial orientation
scaffolded situations
haptic communication
haptic communication
ancient Greek
ἁπτικός able to come into
contact with, of or relating to the sense of touch
ἅπτειν 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